With his landmark album Pontiac, Lovett redefined what it meant to be a Texas musician, blending folk, Western swing, and subtle humor into something as rich as a Cormac McCarthy novel and as smooth as a sip of aged bourbon.
This track alone is good enough, to sum up, the fervency of late teen adolescence. If this is your first go then welcome to my UK musical youth.
We have Guitartown on Twitter to thank for Chuck Prophet today. Circling above and below Chuck Prophet for years, largely due to the alluring name, we now find ourselves indebted to KEXP for an excellent in-studio live session. KEXP, like NPR’s tiny desk, knows how to mix live music.