00:02I am so excited to bring to you live from Stagecoach the legendary Lyle Lovett! How was
00:10performing today at Stagecoach? You know what it's a great festival and out here at the polo grounds
00:15I've been here before when there when there have been horses here and and it's it's really great
00:22to see it transformed into the festival the festival side and the crap there the crowd was
00:26great and I was just thrilled to be here I have always wanted to ask you this question so Mary
00:32Chapin
00:32Carpenter name-checked you and I feel lucky in the mid 90s did you two ever talk about that I
00:38oh you
00:39know Chapin is a Chapin's a natural friend of mine I met I met Chapin before she got her record
00:45deal
00:46and in fact the night uh the night that Larry Hamby from uh from CBS Records no it wasn't Larry
00:55Buchanan from uh Steve Buchanan yeah Steve Buchanan from CBS you can cut all that out we're not live
01:01on the air are we but but yeah the night CBS was was there for her to listen to her
01:05uh before they
01:07offered her a record deal we were doing a show together at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Virginia
01:11and and uh but I've known her I knew her before that and I was just honored that she flattered
01:17that
01:17she mentioned my name I think that's so cool and I think it was 1996 you won the Grammy for
01:23the best
01:23country album where do you keep your Grammy come on do you have a bookshelf uh I you know it
01:33moves
01:33around it has a life of its own it okay I'm gonna ask you the question everybody is they've been
01:40wanting to know for for eons your hair has its own zip code right my hair used to used to
01:48have it my hair
01:49has moved all of ours has do you have a specific hair product that you can recommend to people that
01:55would love hair like oh my gosh you know I thank you thank you for saying that I know I
01:59you know I've
02:00lost a lot of hair I'm glad to have any at all and uh I just try to get it
02:04get it cut every now and
02:06then and uh don't do anything special with it but but you know yeah I used to have uh it
02:11used to be
02:12more plentiful more plentiful you heard it here first if you had to join Lyle a 90s country band
02:18for a tour who are you calling first oh gosh uh a 90s country band 90s who tell me some
02:25I you know
02:26I'd lose track of time I feel like you would be really good with Shenandoah okay those are they were
02:33great Alabama oh you know I opened shows for Alabama back in in 1986 87 and they were always
02:41really kind kind to me Teddy especially he would take time to talk and we played some great country
02:47venues with him in the south when people see Lyle Lovett for the first time what do you hope they
02:53take away from your show oh you know I I just delight in standing on stage with with the musicians
03:03that I get to work with I what I want the audience to realize is just how great the musicians
03:09I play
03:09with are oh and I I just I just love them that what what those what Russ Kunkel and Leland
03:16Sklar and
03:17Jim Cox and Dean Parks uh and Arnold McCuller and Willie Green and Amy Keys bring Jeff White what they
03:25James Hera what they bring to my songs is something it's you know something that I better than my
03:32imagination could ever conjure and and uh so I'm just honored to be on stage with them and I've just
03:38I see the audience light up when they play a solo when they you know when the Russ starts the
03:43groove
03:44and uh I just it just makes me happy what is the most requested song at your shows oh I
03:51don't know
03:51I don't know you know uh there are a few songs that I uh kind of always play uh one
03:57of those is if I had a boat
03:58yes and and uh uh that I don't know that's a song I made up when I was 20 years
04:03old hoping that I could
04:05play music for a living but not you know thinking it was a kind of a long shot do you
04:09have and and I
04:10don't have a boat but I'm gonna fix that tell me your lyrics are very vivid do you generally start
04:18with
04:18with characters lines or just a feeling you know usually just a feeling but and then hope something
04:25comes from that but but uh thank you for saying that uh uh you know my songs are a combination
04:31of
04:32of things that have really happened to me and things that I've made up and and uh I don't think
04:37any of my songs are purely one or the other but but uh but yeah it's more more just a
04:42feeling and
04:43hoping something comes up comes from it it is an absolute honor to finally meet you after 30 some
04:49years in country radio you are a legend thank you thank you and thanks for your support and thanks
04:55for being here today uh thanks for having me on I'll love it thank you
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