10 minutes backstage with Lyle Lovett at Stagecoach

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Lyle Lovett performed Friday evening in Stagecoach’s Palomino tent with the group of killers he calls his Large Band.After the show, I sat with the singer and actor in the front seats of what I’ll call his Large SUV.

“It’s a rental,” he said.We’re in here because you want to protect your voice?You know, I don’t smoke marijuana.Anymore, or period?Period.I have no moral judgment for other people, but I don’t think it’s good for me.

When I smell it, I get concerned that it’s going into my body, and so I just try to stay away from it.In the artist tent, there were plumes everywhere.

In fact, at our set, two songs in, I called over our assistant tour manager and I said, “Can you put some fans blowing back out into the audience?”To send the weed back from whence it came.Well, I don’t want people to waste it either — they paid good money for it.Jackson Browne asked me once in the parking lot of Conway [Recording Studios] — we were doing “The Road to Ensenada,” and he said, “Is it true you’re not cool with weed?” I said, “You know, I’m not.” Music Follow along for live updates from the Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio.

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