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My Baby Don't Tolerate

Lyle Lovett Audio CD
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  • Audio CD (20 Oct 2003)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
  • ASIN: B0000C69UU
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 136,459 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Cute As A Bug
2. My Baby Don't Tolerate
3. The Truck Song
4. In My Own Mind
5. Nothing But A Good Ride
6. Big Dog
7. You Were Always There
8. Wallisville Road
9. Working Too Hard
10. San Antonio Girl
11. On Saturday Night
12. Election Day
13. I'm Going To Wait
14. I'm Going To The Place

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Maybe it was that thigh-splitting encounter with a belligerent bull, but whatever put him there, Lyle Lovett is in a nostalgic mood on My Baby Don't Tolerate, his first studio album of all new and original songs since the country-minded The Road to Ensenada in 1996. This is a mixed blessing--several songs sound like retreads from Lovett's earlier efforts, even as a listener welcomes the reprised, syncopated, hep-cat, Louis-Jordan-meets-Sister-Rosetta-Tharpe signatures that help define his quirky style. While a key tune, "In My Own Mind", turns around a family man who seeks solace from a busy household, drawing restorative power from nature ("no rain, just the sunshine"), the album finds itself when Lovett begins revisiting dark places in his mind. Forget "Cute as a Bug", a by-now formulaic song of lust, and get right to the bleak antagonist who narrates the confused loss of the elegantly jazzy "You Were Always There", the snaky blues of the title song, the pointy-toed send-up of bygone Music City hillbillies ("Nashville") and the sly portrayal of the bribes of luckless blacks ("Election Day") in the old-time south. As the infectious, if repetitious gospel numbers prove, the man with "Eraserhead" hair isn't breaking any new ground. But he still fuses country, blues, jazz, folk, big band and pop like no-one else on the planet. --Alanna Nash

BBC Review

My Baby Don't Tolerate is Lyle Lovett's first album of new music since 1996's Grammy Award-winning Road To Enseñada. In a press conference earlier this year the ever self-deprecating Long Tall Texan put this seven year glitch down to 'Dumbness...laziness' but in truth he has been very busy of late. Whilst quietly amassing the material for My Baby Don't Tolerate he had a heap of other projects on the go; his excellent tribute to fellow Texan singer-songwriters, Step Inside This House, the Live In Texas album, Smile, a diverse collection of his contributions to film soundtracks, some music for his old buddy Robert Altman's film Dr. T & The Women and a continuation of his acting career with a role in The New Guy. Then there was that nasty incident involving a bull with very sharp horns and a dislike of Lovett's sophisticated style of country music which put him in hospital for several weeks. But he got here in the end.

Those who bought Cowboy Man: Anthology Volume One will recognise ''The Truck Song'' and ''San Antonio Girl'', two brilliant little Western Swing gems which were included on this greatest hits collection as a taster for things to come. Melodically they're basically the same song, and both offer flashes of Lovett's intellect, gentle humour and reluctance to let rhyming conventions get in the way of a good story ('I've been to Paris / And I don't mean Texas/ I met Wim Wenders/ one time in London').

Apart from these two tracks, co-produced with Tony Brown, it is long time collaborator Billy Williams who joins Lovett at the mixing desk. The musicians are familiar too. There's no horn section, but Large Band members Matt Rollings and Viktor Krauss are back on keyboards and bass, and Francine Reed and Sweet Pea Atkinson add vocals to the two gospel numbers which close the show. Choice session musicians including Paul Franklin (steel), Stuart Duncan (fiddle) and Sam Bush (mandolin), who often joins Lovett's touring band, are there too. On top of this already polished bed of music flows Lovett's ever velvety and gentlemanly vocal, adding that special gleam that makes all his albums such dignified affairs.

He takes the opportunity to further explore two familiar themes - relationships with beautiful, interesting women and his love for the minutiae of life in Texas. At one point he does take a rare look outside his home state for inspiration, with ''Nashville'', but it is only with a wry eye ('They live in Nashville/ They drive a coupe de ville/ They all take little pills/ On a Saturday night'). You can take the boy out of Texas, but you can't take Texas out of the boy... --Sue Keogh

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but not his best 16 Jan 2004
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This is simply a good album but it is by no means outstanding. In My Own Mind is really the only song of note. This said you may be wondering where my 4 stars have come from, but taking the album as a whole there is nothing I really don't like about it and I have enjoyed listening to it. There is great variety in the songwriting and playing and the singing is as usual undescribable. It is a mistake to think of Lyle as a purely country artist because he does so much more than is often associated with country. You have here as well as country, jazz, blues, folk and gospel to name a few. If you like your music varied then Lyle is the man for you. This album is of course essential for all Lyle's fans which you couldn't say about Smile - Songs From The Movies, but if you're buying your first Lyle Lovett album make it Pontiac, The Road To Ensenada or Lyle Lovett - his debut.Lastly I would like to mention a review I read in Q about this album. It talked solely about the fact that now Lyle has moved to Lost Highway records and the reviewer said how disappointed he was that this album wasn't like ones by the label's big alt. country artists and gave this album 2/5 stars as a result. Thankfully such a suggestion is preposterous, imagine how boring is would be if all artists from a particular record label sounded the same. Lyle is unique and long may he avoid becoming a stereotype alt. country artist.
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5.0 out of 5 stars My Baby Loves Lyle Lovett 5 Nov 2003
By prisrob TOP 500 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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My Baby Don't Tolerate", Lyle Lovett's new CD is a class act. Most of the songs are newly written by Lyle. I last saw Lyle in concert with his Big Band, and he premiered "Nashville", a rocking song of a family, indeed. A favorite of mine-"My Baby Don't Tolerate" is a lusty song of life with a woman who knows her mind and can express it with fierce abandon. Lyle brings back "San Antonio Woman" with a fresh perspective. The last two songs are upstanding, down South, church rockin' songs that will have you tapping your feet and dancing on the ceiling. The entire CD fills an evening with delight and spontaniety. Buy it and fill your evenings with Lyle and his music.
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I've worried recently that perhaps Lyle Lovett had peaked with his Road To Ensenada album, which for me marks the high spot in his musically distinguished career. Although he followed this with a double album of covers, and a live album, I thought perhaps his muse had deserted him.

Fortunately for Lovett fans this album is a strong return to form. This is a mixture of rocky, country, etherial, penetrating songs infused with Lovett's ability to paint an image with a single phrase or word, as well as his trademark quirky humour. All the songs are delivered by an impeccable backing band that fits each song like a carefully tailored suit.

Lovett's chief strength has always been the eclectic range of musical styles he is capable of delivering. The album opens with the upbeat country-rocker "Cute As A Bug" and proceeds with a mixture of bluesey and straight country style tracks of great depth and sensitivity. I can certainly identify with the lament "Working To Hard (to win your love)".

As with his earlier work "Joshua Judges Ruth", Lovett delivers two very strong gospel influenced tracks - "I'm Going To Wait" and "I'm Going To The Place". I defy anyone, regardless of religeous or musical orientation to bely the infectious, toe-tapping, hand-clapping enjoyment of these tracks.

I suspect this album will work its way into the most frequent played list of many listeners, I know it is already a firm favourite of mine.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I can do more than tolerate this great album 26 Mar 2009
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What can I say? More great Lovett - a bit saucy, sometimes rude, always great music. I loved the gospel tracks at the end - I wait for those on Lyle Lovett albums now. I bought a copy for me and one for my mum: cross-generational cool.
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