''It's Not Big It's Large'' is an album by Lyle Lovett and his Large Band, released in 2007 (see

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). The recording was made live in studio (recorded with all instruments as if a concert venue, but done in a studio). The title is a play on the name Lovett has given to his touring band since 1988. Lovett explains the title in an interview: "We've always done arrangements that border on

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, that border on

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arrangements, that border on what folks might think of as '

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', but we don't really play big band music. But we've always had a lot of people in the band so that's why I call the band the 'Large Band' and not the 'Big Band'. But invariably people refer to the band as the 'Big Band' and ... it's not big... you get the idea."Interview posted as a video clip at Amazon.com
/ref> The album debuted at number 18 on the U.S. ''Billboard'' 200 chart, selling about 25,000 copies in its first week.Jonathan Cohen
"'High School Musical 2' Starts Third Week At No. 1"
Billboard.com, September 5, 2007.

Track listing

# "Tickle Toe" # "I Will Rise Up/ Ain't No More Cane" # "All Downhill from Here" # "Don't Cry a Tear" # "South Texas Girl" # "This Traveling Around" # "Up in Indiana" # "The Alley Song" # "No Big Deal" # "Make It Happy" # " Ain't No More Cane" # "Up in Indiana" (acoustic)

Personnel

#"Tickle Toe" #*

Viktor Krauss Viktor Krauss is an American musician who plays acoustic and electric bass. He has released solo albums and has worked as a sideman with many musicians, including his sister, singer and fiddler Alison Krauss. Music career Krauss was born to Fre ...

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Russ Kunkel Russell Kunkel (born September 27, 1948) is an American drummer who has worked as a session musician with many popular artists, including Jackson Browne, Jimmy Buffett, Harry Chapin, Rita Coolidge, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Cass Elliot, Dan Fo ...

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Matt Rollings Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer. Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Rollings won the 'Best Traditional Pop ...

piano A piano is a keyboard instrument that produces sound when its keys are depressed, activating an Action (music), action mechanism where hammers strike String (music), strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a c ...

Dean Parks Weldon Dean Parks (born December 6, 1946) is an American session guitarist and record producer from Fort Worth, Texas. Parks has one Grammy nomination. Albums Parks was member of the North Texas State One O'clock Lab Band before moving to Los A ...

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, first guitar solo #*Mitch Watkins, electric guitar, second guitar solo #* Paul Franklin:

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Stuart Duncan Stuart Ian Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school ...

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

, fiddle solo #*Gene Elders: fiddle #*John Hagen:

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#*James Gilmer:

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#*Dan Higgins:

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, alto sax, tenor sax #*Gary Grant:

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

#*Warren Luening: trumpet, trumpet solo #*William Reichenbach:

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solo #*Steve Marsh: horn arrangement #"I Will Rise Up]/ Ain't No More Cane" #*

: additional horn arrangement, bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks and Mitch Watkins: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*

Lyle Lovett Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) Lyle Lovett Pageat Allmusic – Lovett's Genre and Styles. Retrieved February 2, 2007 is an American country singer and actor. Active since 1980, he has recorded 14 albums and released 25 singles to dat ...

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

, vocals #*

Sam Bush Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. ...

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

#*Gene Elders: fiddle #*John Hagen: cello #*James Gilmer: percussion #*Dan Higgins: orchestration,

alto sax The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E, smaller th ...

tenor sax The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B (while ...

#* Gary Grant, Steve Herman and

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: trumpet #*

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: trombone #*Charlie Rose: horn arrangement, trombone #*Harvey Thompson and Steve Marsh: tenor sax #*

Arnold McCuller Arnold McCuller (born August 26, 1950) is an American vocalist, songwriter, and record producer, born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He was active as a solo artist and session musician, but is perhaps best known for his work as a touring back-u ...

, Jason Eskridge,

Sweet Pea Atkinson Hillard "Sweet Pea" Atkinson (September 20, 1945 – May 5, 2020) was an American R&B singer known as one of the vocalists for the band Was (Not Was). Biography Atkinson was born in Oberlin, Ohio, and moved to Detroit as a child. He work ...

, Harry Bowens and

Francine Reed Francine Reed (born July 11, 1947, in Pembroke Township, Illinois, United States) is an American blues singer, solo artist, and regular singing partner of Lyle Lovett since the 1980s and member of Lovett's Large Band. Reed has also recorded du ...

: harmony vocals #"All Downhill" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*

Ray Herndon Ray Herndon (born July 14, 1960) is an American country singer/songwriter and guitarist known mainly for playing with Lyle Lovett's Large Band and McBride & the Ride. Early life and education Ray Herndon grew up in an Arizona musical family. His ...

and Mitch Watkins: electric guitar #*Dean Parks: electric

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#*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #"Don't Cry A Tear" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*John Hagen: cello #"South Texas Girl" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*Sam Bush: mandolin #* John Hagen: cello #*

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: harmony vocals #*

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: intro and outro acoustic guitar, intro vocals #*James Gilmer, Steve Jones, Jeff White and Billy Williams: outro group vocals #"This Traveling Around" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks and Mitch Matkins: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*John Hagen: cello #*James Gilmer: percussion #*Jon Randal: harmony vocals #"Up In Indiana" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*Jon Randal: harmony vocals #*Jeff White:

pre-production Pre-production is the process of planning some of the elements involved in a film, television show, play, video game, or other performance, as distinct from production and post-production. Pre-production ends when the planning ends and the co ...

mandolin and harmony vocals #"The Alley Song" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*John Hagen: cello #"No Big Deal" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #"Make It Happy" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Russ Kunkel: drums #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Dean Parks: electric guitar #*Paul Franklin: steel guitar #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*Arnold McCuller, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Lamont Van Hook and Joseph Powell: harmony vocals #" Ain't No More Cane" #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Matt Rollings: piano #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*

Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prol ...

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#*Arnold McCuller, Jason Eskridge, Sweet Pea Atkinson, Harry Bowens, Francine Reed, Lamont Van Hook and Josef Powell: harmony vocals #"Up In Indiana" (acoustic) #*Viktor Krauss: bass #*Lyle Lovett: acoustic guitar, vocals #*Stuart Duncan: fiddle #*Sam Bush: mandolin #*Jerry Douglas: dobro #*

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#*Jeff White: pre-production mandolin and harmony vocals

Track listing

Personnel

Chart performance

References

Further reading