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When the throes of life have a soul seeking relief, doesn’t everyone want a bartender like balladeer Lyle Lovett? We thought so, and apparently so did writer-director Michael Meredith. Lovett has been cast alongside Jeff Bridges, Harry Dean Stanton and Justin Timberlake in The Open Road.

The film follows the son of a baseball legend on a road trip home to see his ailing mother. Timberlake plays the son, Bridges his father and Stanton his grandfather.

This is not the first time that Timberlake and Stanton have appeared on screen together; they were both in the gang flick Alpha Dog in 2006. Nor is it Lovett’s first time around the cinematic block. He appeared in Meredith’s 2003 take on Chekhov, Three Days of Rain, and had a wholly entertaining bit part in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

The project will be filmed in the Louisiana mostly. Kate Mara (We Are Marshall) and Mary Steenburgen (Step Brothers) will also star.

No word yet on when filming will begin or any projected release date, but we can only hope we'll get to see Lovett and JT battle it out on semantics.

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JeffBridges.com
LyleLovett.com
JustinTimberlake.com

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After 12 albums, four Grammys, a two-year marriage with Julia Roberts and successful recovery from a bull attack, Lyle Lovett has earned the right to argue semantics. Not that one must attain privilege to engage in linguistic debate (as proven by university sophomores) – I’m not sure what I mean by “earning” and “right” - but that’s beside the point.

Lovett just wants you to understand that It’s Not Big, It’s Large, which is the title of his thirteenth album, out Aug. 28 on Lost Highway. Nevermind that Mirriam Webster’s top definition of "big" is "large" – after all, “is” is an infamously tenuous word.

(The album is really named for the Texas-born singer-songwriter's Large Band, who recorded It’s Not Big. . . with him over the course of nine months in Los Angeles.)

Bonus: instead of waiting 5-10 years before releasing a special deluxe edition of the record, Lovett is delivering the bonus version (with DVD) simultaneously for those whose extra love and extra coin lack patience.

Tonight, Lovett and Large play the Wilma Theatre in Missoula, Mont. Before hitting up Sand Point, Idaho’s Sandpoint Festival on Saturday.

It’s Not Big, It’s Large track list:
1. Tickle Toe
2. I Will Rise Up
3. All Downhill
4. Don’t Cry A Tear
5. South Texas Girl
6. This Traveling Around Acoustic
7. Up In Indiana
8. The Alley Song
9. No Big Deal
10. Make It Happy
11. Ain’t No More Cane
12. Up In Indiana

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LostHighwayRecords.com
IMDB: Lyle Lovett
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