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The Forward

Lyle Lovett

The Forward

Lance Armstrong

Lancearmstrong, Theforward, Sports, Arts, Wedu, Forward

4.52K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Lyle Lovett is a country singer-songwriter from Klein, Texas. He has won four Grammy Awards, including Best Male Country Vocal Performance and Best Country Album. Lance stopped by Lyle’s to talk: getting started in music, the importance of Nashville, writing and touring with Guy Clark and Joe Ely, and even playing a couple songs during the interview.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello, welcome back to the forward podcast. I'm Lance Armstrong. I'm your host each and every week.

0:07.6

Got a special guest this week. An old old friend of mine, a guy that I've known for, oh gosh, nearly 20 years.

0:17.0

Mr. Lyle, Lovett, one of, certainly one of my favorite singer-songwriters.

0:21.0

I had a great, obviously great Texas singer-songwriter, but known the world

0:27.5

over. And a true gentleman, one of the sweetest guys I know, makes all the all of us other guys look bad.

0:35.0

Speaking of, you know, being a gentleman and looking bad or whatever. I certainly had an interesting

0:45.8

week. I've been with Anna for gosh nearly nine years. We two kids max who's about to be eight actually

0:56.4

gonna be eight this week happy birthday max and little Olivia who's six and

1:02.1

and so you know, we've just kind of been going along and, but I've been having

1:08.0

this idea, you know, the last, I don't know, six months or so that maybe maybe you know nine years is long enough and I should probably make

1:16.4

Miss Hanson an honest woman and so

1:20.0

Pop the question thank goodness she said. It was a funny little night. We were going to go out on the lake, just kind of cruise around before dinner.

1:30.0

This massive storm rolled in and totally not a good idea to be out on the lake

1:36.3

so we had to go home I had this whole thing planned out to be on the water and

1:40.1

the kids were going to be there and it got derailed because of this storm.

1:45.4

So we head back to the house and I'm like, oh my God, what am I going to do?

1:48.6

What is Plan B?

1:50.3

And I didn't have a Plan B, by the the way which was really stressing me out.

1:55.0

But then the skies just opened up and cleared up and I should say the clouds cleared and I thought you know what

2:05.8

let's run out to the boat see if we can go for a little cruise so I had again I had

2:12.2

it all put together the kid everybody got to pick a song and then finally I got to my

2:16.6

song which was this kind of this actually like the song but it's kind of a corny old

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