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I don't much care for country music, or its fraternal twin, so-called "alt" country (if the singer does hard drugs it's "alt" country, if not it's just plain country).  But with talk of Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt bringing their acoustic show to town, I remembered that I heard a Lyle Lovett song once that I liked, and years later I would even come to identify with it.  So it fills me with perverse glee to listen once again to "God Will" from Lyle's first album:

Lyle Lovett - God Will

Lyle Lovett

Lyle Lovett has the gift of making country music inoffensive; he usually does it by making it merely boring, but "God Will" is a true gem. 

The first time I heard John Hiatt was hearing incessant radio commercials for his album Slugline when I was in high school.  I thought maybe the commercials were a radio station joke, because in all the clips from the album they played he sounded, well, retarded.  I guess that's what passes for "soul" in white guys.  I did actually come to like some of John Hiatt's later work, particularly the Slow Turning album, but I don't really have any urge to hear it again.