Lyle Lovett: Natural Forces

"Lyle Lovett's tour especially offered a model of what a great show should be like, sweetened by the sort of sensible prices that were especially appealing on a recent August evening at Wolf Trap. ... Much of the show was devoted to his last two albums, including his latest, Natural Forces, a sign that he keeps growing as an artist. ... One of the show's centerpieces was the latest album's title song, 'Natural Forces,' inspired while watching a beer commercial during a football game, and realizing he and other Americans were not sacrificing anything while troops fought overseas for them. It led him to craft a song, apparently from the point of view of a truck driver, recalling his trips across the American landscape. Now the trucker was watching a beer commercial and wondering: 'Now as I sit here safe at home/With a cold Coors Lite an' the TV on/All the sacrifice and the death and woe/Lord I pray that I'm worth fighting for'" (Art Levine, "Lyle Lovett's Showmanship Endures," Huffington Post, 9/10/10).

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