Michael Corcoran
American-Statesman Staff
Add Lyle Lovett to the Natalie Maines critics, though the Houstonian did call the outspoken Dixie Chicks singer "a sweet girl" at his one-on-one interview with Texas Monthly editor Evan Smith at the Convention Center Saturday. "There are appropriate times for appropriate people to speak out," Lovett said when Smith brought up the controversy Maines has caused by telling a London audience she's ashamed President George W. Bush is from Texas.. "But just because you have the forum doesn't mean you should speak," Lovett said. Maines' sentiments no doubt had greater support at the big anti-war march that turned an already packed downtown area into a crush of pandemonium. I've never seen it so crazy so early downtown during SXSW.
Gotta head out to Bally's for my workout in a couple of minutes . . .