DSP is very excited and proud to announce the return of an amazing show… An acoustic evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt will play the FM Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA on Thursday, January 27th 2011. Tickets will cost $47.50 and $40.50 (plus a $2.00 theater restoration charge). A limited number of Gold Circle seats will be available for $67.50. Tickets may be purchased starting November 8th via all Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets can be purchased free of service charges at the Kirby Center Box Office at 71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre (570) 826-1100, online at www.kirbycenter.org, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. For venue information and directions call (570) 823-4599.
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt are teaming together for a series of shows that will feature both artists performing side-by-side in an old-fashioned guitar pull. The shows will find both Lovett and Hiatt – who have been touring together in one fashion or another since 1989 -alternating songs from throughout their careers.
Lyle Lovett is one of the all-time great American singer/songwriters. His voice is unique, but his antecedents are recognizable. In his work two roads come together, the trail blazed by the great Texas storytellers of whom Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark are the best known, and the crooked highway navigated by sophisticated wise-asses such as Randy Newman and Tom Waits. Lovett’s first gift was to combine these two potent strands of musical DNA into a new genome able to generate songs as brilliant and double-sided as “If I Had A Boat,” “God Will,” “If I Were the Man You Wanted,” “Family Reserve” and “Her First Mistake.” That would be plenty for any composer to base a career on, but Lovett was also capable of both flat-out humor (“That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas”), “Here I am,” ”Church”) and heartbreakers that were poignant without ever descending into sentimentality (“She’s Already Made Up Her Mind,” “Nobody Knows Me,” “The Road To Ensenada”). What emerged was a picture of a smart and complicated man, whose good humor and generosity of spirit were holding back a darker character.
John Hiatt
John Hiatt began his solo career in 1974 and over the next decade ran through a number of different styles from rock ‘n’ roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock ‘n’ roll, country, blues and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family. Though the album didn’t set the charts on fire, it became his first album to reach the charts, and several of its songs became hits for other artists, including Bonnie Raitt’s “Thing Called Love.” Following the album’s success, Hiatt became a reliable hit songwriter for other artists, and he developed a strong cult following.
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DSP is very excited and proud to announce the return of an amazing show… An acoustic evening with Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt will play the FM Kirby Center in Wilkes-Barre, PA on Thursday, January 27th 2011. Tickets will cost $47.50 and $40.50 (plus a $2.00 theater restoration charge). A limited number of Gold Circle seats will be available for $67.50. Tickets may be purchased starting November 8th via all Ticketmaster outlets. Tickets can be purchased free of service charges at the Kirby Center Box Office at 71 Public Square, Wilkes-Barre (570) 826-1100, online at www.kirbycenter.org, or by phone at 1-800-745-3000. For venue information and directions call (570) 823-4599.
Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt are teaming together for a series of shows that will feature both artists performing side-by-side in an old-fashioned guitar pull. The shows will find both Lovett and Hiatt – who have been touring together in one fashion or another since 1989 -alternating songs from throughout their careers.
Lyle Lovett is one of the all-time great American singer/songwriters. His voice is unique, but his antecedents are recognizable. In his work two roads come together, the trail blazed by the great Texas storytellers of whom Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark are the best known, and the crooked highway navigated by sophisticated wise-asses such as Randy Newman and Tom Waits. Lovett’s first gift was to combine these two potent strands of musical DNA into a new genome able to generate songs as brilliant and double-sided as “If I Had A Boat,” “God Will,” “If I Were the Man You Wanted,” “Family Reserve” and “Her First Mistake.” That would be plenty for any composer to base a career on, but Lovett was also capable of both flat-out humor (“That’s Right (You’re Not From Texas”), “Here I am,” ”Church”) and heartbreakers that were poignant without ever descending into sentimentality (“She’s Already Made Up Her Mind,” “Nobody Knows Me,” “The Road To Ensenada”). What emerged was a picture of a smart and complicated man, whose good humor and generosity of spirit were holding back a darker character.
John Hiatt
John Hiatt began his solo career in 1974 and over the next decade ran through a number of different styles from rock ‘n’ roll to new wave pop before he finally settled on a rootsy fusion of rock ‘n’ roll, country, blues and folk with his 1987 album Bring the Family. Though the album didn’t set the charts on fire, it became his first album to reach the charts, and several of its songs became hits for other artists, including Bonnie Raitt’s “Thing Called Love.” Following the album’s success, Hiatt became a reliable hit songwriter for other artists, and he developed a strong cult following.
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