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It's Not Big It's Large |  | Artist: Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
Label: Humphead
Category: Music
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 7232
Format: CD+DVD
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 5060001273037
ASIN: B001H1Q98S
Release Date: October 27, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Tickle Toe | | • | I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane | | • | All Downhill From Here | | • | Don't Cry A Tear | | • | South Texas Girl | | • | This Travelling Around | | • | Up In Indiana | | • | Alley Song | | • | No Big Deal | | • | Make It Happy | | • | Ain't No More Cane | | • | Up In Indiana |
Disc 2
| • | Ain't No More Cane | | • | All Downhill | | • | Don't Cry A Tear | | • | Up In Indiana | | • | Alley Song | | • | South Texas Girl |
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| Customer Reviews:
 It's not average, it's damn fine! February 4, 2008
Inkslinger (xxxxxxx)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I think the previous reviewer is still smarting from losing out on his hotel bill after Lyle's cancelled UK gig. That's the only reason I can imagine for such a sour review, or maybe we were listening to different CDs? Lovett does what he does best here, which is a rich weave of country, gospel, mournful, quirky and even big (sorry, large) band sounds. The baby-slapping has nothing to do with babies: it's a sly, sexy song concerning, let's say, conflict flirting with a lover. You want a classic? 'Ain't No Cane' is a haunting heartbreaker. If you 'get' Lyle Lovett, you'll enjoy this. It may be more of the same but if that same is this good, then what's not to like?
It's not essential, it's enjoyable March 12, 2008
M. G. Wilson (Eastbourne)
The album opens with Lester Young's 'Tickle Toe' giving the lie to the claim that it's large rather than big: this is big band music, though with steel guitar, twin lead guitars and fiddles, this is a big band for the 21st century. Perhaps intended to emphasise that this is a band record rather than a solo act, the track, while pleasant enough, is not typical of the rest of the album, rather undermining that message. 'I will rise up / Ain't no more cane' follows, and sets out the band's stall in more typical fashion - Lovett's distinctive voice, country slide guitar, West Coast rock lead guitars and drums, big band brass and gospel soul back up singers. 'All downhill' deploys Lovett's laconic humour "Joe Ely and I sit next to that John Hiatt, We park next to Guy Clark" "I've been up so long on this lucky star, It could be all downhill from here". And the rest of the album plays out in typical Lovett style: musically and lyrically engaging throughout. What's lacking here, and again this is typical of Lovett's work, are those songs that stand out, with that something extra to make them truly memorable (do I mean singles?) that would make this a five star essential album rather than four star enjoyable.
 It's not large, it's average September 29, 2007
A. Butterfield (UK)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Lyle's last album (of his own songs) was so similar to the previous one I could barely tell them apart so I only listened to it a couple of times. Seemed a bit of a waste of money. Then Lyle cancelled his UK tour and I wasted more money on the hotel I'd booked... The reason cited for the cancellation was that it clashed with his recording schedule. If that's true then presumably this is what he was recording when he should've been entertaining me in person. So it had better be good!
br /It starts well enough with the big band sound of Tickle Toe. Takes you back to the other Large Band album. But it's weird: you never hear that sound again, so why on earth is it there? It doesn't fit.
br /The rest of the album is standard Lovett, with bits from several albums of the past decade or so. It's almost like a bunch of songs that never made it onto those other albums because they weren't quite good enough.
br /Not that (in isolation) this is a bad collection of songs. It isn't. He does a decent job of the somewhat repetitive part-traditional 'I Will Rise Up/Ain't No More Cane', helped by his usual rather good backing singers. Unfortunately we get this song again later on.
br /There are a bunch of croaked quiet songs like `Don't Cry a Tear' that sound awfully similar to many other LL songs but not as good. There's a weird song about slapping babies that surely belongs on the I Love Everybody album. Brazos abound as usual (what on earth are they?), there's the usual track that begins with something about it being Saturday and coffee being on (not again!) and they're all nicely done and well, pretty much as you'd expect.
br /The trouble is that nothing stands out except the baby-slapping song. There's no 'If I Had a Boat', no 'Pontiac', no 'M-O-N-E-Y'. Has Lyle run out of tunes? I think he has.
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