Lyle Lovett - West End Cultural Center, Winnipeg, Canada, 10-23-1997

It's high time I finally post some music by Lyle Lovett. I'm not a big of most typical country music, but Lovett's music is different. He mixes country, jazz, folk, gospel, blues, and more, and adds in a quirky sense of humor. So you might like his stuff even if you don't typically listen to country.

The sound quality of this concert is freaking amazing. Yes, it's a bootleg (and a soundboard), but it's hard to imagine a concert being recorded any better. During the quiet parts between songs, you could have heard a pin drop. The performance is excellent too, and the set list is strong. If you were to listen to just one live recording from him, I would suggest this one, even over his one official live album, "Live in Texas." That one came out in 1999, so not too distant in time from this one, but many of the songs performed are different anyway. Besides, this one is nearly twice as long!

Lovett has typically performed his concerts with three backing bands: his Large Band, his Small Band, and in an even smaller acoustic format. This concert was performed with his Large Band. 

I wish all bootlegs were this easy to deal with. Not only is the sound quality fantastic, there were no problems to fix. The only change I made was that I cut out some dead air between songs, mostly guitar tuning.

This concert is an hour and 55 minutes long.

01 Which Way Does That Old Pony Run (Lyle Lovett)
02 talk (Lyle Lovett)
03 Good Intentions (Lyle Lovett)
04 talk (Lyle Lovett)
05 God Will (Lyle Lovett)
06 Give Back My Heart (Lyle Lovett)
07 talk (Lyle Lovett)
08 Sleepwalking (Lyle Lovett)
09 talk (Lyle Lovett)
10 Fiona (Lyle Lovett)
11 talk (Lyle Lovett)
12 Fat Babies (Lyle Lovett)
13 talk (Lyle Lovett)
14 Fat Babies [Reprise] (Lyle Lovett)
15 If I Were the Man You Wanted (Lyle Lovett)
16 talk (Lyle Lovett)
17 Her First Mistake (Lyle Lovett)
18 talk (Lyle Lovett)
19 This Old Porch (Lyle Lovett)
20 talk (Lyle Lovett)
21 Nobody Knows Me (Lyle Lovett)
22 L.A. County (Lyle Lovett)
23 If I Had a Boat (Lyle Lovett)
24 talk (Lyle Lovett)
25 Walk through the Bottomland (Lyle Lovett)
26 She's No Lady (Lyle Lovett)
27 talk (Lyle Lovett)
28 Family Reserve (Lyle Lovett)
29 Church (Lyle Lovett)
30 talk (Lyle Lovett)
31 Closing Time (Lyle Lovett)
32 talk (Lyle Lovett)
33 You Can't Resist It (Lyle Lovett)
34 Road to Ensenada (Lyle Lovett)
35 Simple Song (Lyle Lovett)

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The cover photo was taken at a concert at the Medinah Temple in Chicago, Illinois, on November 12, 1997. The colors were quite messed up, with his skin tone too red to be human. I tried to fix it in Photoshop, but the colors are probably still a bit off.