Honors Students Attend Lyle Lovett Concert

by Sophia Patterson

Southwestern’s honors students attended their first cultural event of the semester, a Lyle Lovett concert at Fort Worth’s Bass Hall on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The event was attended by six honors students, Renard Doneskey, the honors director, and Prof. Jayne Doneskey. This unique concert featured aspects of jazz, country, gospel, and bluegrass music, interposed with bits of comic storytelling from the Texas-born singer. 

Lyle Lovett

“It was a phenomenal experience!” says Joya Mitchell. “I so enjoyed listening to Lovett’s unique, captivating voice, the instruments and voices making up his band, and songs from a variety of music genres.”

Lyle Lovett is a four-time Grammy-Award-winning singer-songwriter. Over the past forty-five years, he has produced 14 albums and 25 singles, starred in various movies and TV shows, and been inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Lovett has been performing and producing music with a 14-member Large Band, consisting of horn players, guitarists, vocalists, a pianist, and a drummer, for most of his career.

Lovett’s set list consisted of some of his most famous songs, such as “If I Had a Boat,” “She’s No Lady,” and “Nobody Knows Me.” There was even a surprise guest appearance by Pat Green, who performed “Texas Girls Are Better” with Lovett. 

The concert served as a good teaser for the Honors tour this summer: Music and Culture of the American South. The Honors department looks forward to visiting Bass Hall again in the spring to see Les Miserables.