While Lyle Lovett's self-titled debut album made it clear he was one the most gifted and idiosyncratic talents to emerge in country music in the 1980s, his follow-up, 1987'sPontiac, took the strengths of his first disc and refined them, and the result
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This goes against the grain. At a time when homespun rootsiness is almost every country artist's calling card, Lyle Lovett and Nanci Griffith aren't afraid to show off a little book learnin'.
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