Lyle Lovett Is Not the Same, But He’s Different

Toward the end of Lyle Lovett’s new album, 12th of June, comes “Are We Dancing,” a lushly orchestrated tune that evokes young lovers sweeping across a ballroom floor in a Golden Age movie.

It’s romantic and grand, sounding like something out of the Great American Songbook. But it’s a Lovett original, and he remembers exactly where he was when he wrote it: “It just kind of came to me, just dancing around the living room with my babies.”