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Lyle Lovett furthers solo tour, adds fall run with John Hiatt
Lyle Lovett has tacked more dates onto his summer run with his Large Band and added an acoustic fall outing alongside John Hiatt to the end of the schedule.
The award-winning singer/songwriter will kick off the return to the road with his backing band July 14 in Memphis, followed by stops in 25 cities across the Midwest and West Coast through mid-August. After a six-week hiatus, Lovett will perform a one-off solo gig Oct. 3 in San Francisco, before setting out Oct. 6 in Albuquerque alongside John Hiatt for an 11-date acoustic co-headlining tour that concludes Oct. 18 in Tacoma. Details are shown below.
Lovett, who has been on the tour trail sporadically since January, released his most recent album, "It's Not Big It's Large," in 2007. The 12-track set, which features the performer's Large Band on a variety of country, blues, folk, jazz and gospel songs, charted at No. 18 on The Billboard 200.
"We've always done arrangements that border on blues music, that border on jazz arrangements, that border on what folks might think of as 'big band,' but we don't really play big band music," Lovett said of the album's title in a promotional video clip posted at Amazon.com. "But we've always had a lot of people in the band, so that's why I call the band the 'Large Band' and not the 'Big Band.' But invariably people refer to the band as the 'Big Band' and ... it's not big ... you get the idea."
Blues-rock veteran John Hiatt, who received the American Lifetime Achievement Award for Songwriting last fall, released "Same Old Man" last May.
