Review: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt trade stories and songs
[Music]  Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt  You get the feeling Lyle
Lovett and John Hiatt have done this a few times. Watching them
on stage, you can almost imagine it's just two good friends who
have got together to pick a little, rib each other, and share a
few stories -- but instead of hanging out in their living room,
they happen to be doing it in front of several hundred fans on a
darkly lit stage at the Brown Theatre. While the set list and
the banter might be well-rehearsed, true entertainers that they
are, Lovett and Hiatt make it all sound extemporaneous -- each
picking up on a thread or a word in the other's song and
answering it with one of his own -- or in some cases, someone
else's song that he's made his own.  Hiatt kicked off the
evening with the soulful "Train to Birmingham," which he wrote
at the tender age of 19, and Lovett came back with "Give Me Back
My Heart," a song from his own youth based, as he said with his
trademark wry humor, on