A wry and eccentric lyricist with a humble, homespun style, Lyle Lovett is a
Grammy Award-winning country star and acclaimed songwriter. Born and raised in
rural Texas, Lovett started writing songs at university and was inspired by the
likes of Guy Clark and Townes van Zandt, country folk singers who were deemed to
be too rough and unruly for an increasingly commercial and sanitised Nashville
in the late 1970s. He played the local bars and clubs of Austin before Nanci
Griffith covered his song If I Were The Woman You Wanted on the album Once In A
Very Blue Moon (1984), and the re...