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Featured Musician

Lyle Lovett

Lyle Lovett is the poster child for a new generation of Texas musicians. Growing up in the shadow of Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark and the rest of the 1970s-era Lone Star songwriting icons, Lovett first studied journalism at Texas A&M before essaying his songs at smoky Austin-area happy hours. A contract with MCA Records in Nashville in the late 1980s might have exposed his literate and often gently mocking songs to the world, but he never shed the streak of ornery independence that is every Texan's birthright.

 With his never-duplicated coif of corkscrewed hair and flinty profile, Lovett might not look like your Aunt Minnie's country star, but, like Bob Wills, he's shown a gift for mixing country, pop, big band jazz, swing and blues into a chart-topping whole. Today, when he could hang his Stetson anyplace, Lovett makes his home on his ancestral family acreage in Klein, just northwest of Houston. Touring each year with his Large Band, the Aggie in the Armani suit conducts nightly graduate seminars in the blending of Texas soul with cosmopolitan class.