Lyle Lovett will release My Baby Don't Tolerate on September 30th; the release will be the wry country music outsider's first collection of new, original material since The Road to Ensenada seven years ago.
Lovett has hardly been sitting on his laurels since Ensenada. The singer-songwriter released Step Inside This House, a two-CD set of covers of fellow Lone Star songwriters, in 1998; a live album a year later; the score for Robert Altman's film Dr. T and the Women in 2000; a compilation in 2001; and Smile, a collection of odds and ends he'd contributed to various soundtracks, earlier this year. Lovett has also spent time recuperating: In March 2002, he was trampled by a bull at his family's ranch and his leg was broken in more than twenty places.
The album will be Lovett's first for Lost Highway Records, after spending his first seventeen years recording for Curb/MCA. Billy Williams, who has worked on all of Lovett's recordings, co-produced the set.
Lovett is in the midst of a summer tour that wraps August 16th in Newport, Rhode Island. A performance at New York City's Carnegie Hall is scheduled for November.
ANDREW DANSBY
(July 29, 2003)
