Pontiac (album)

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Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
Robert Christgau	B−[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
Music Hound	[6]
Pitchfork	9.0/10[7]
Rolling Stone	[8]
Spin Alternative Record Guide	10/10[9]
Virgin	[10]

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Pontiac was ranked at 201 in the list of the "500 Best Albums of All-Time" by the German edition of Rolling Stone in 2004.^[11] The album was cited as one of the top 100 albums of the 1980s by the Italian magazines Il Mucchio Selvaggio^{[citation needed]} and Velvet.^[12] It is also one of 300 albums listed in the book 50 Years of Great Recordings,^[13] and appeared at number 33 on the Village Voice's list of top albums of 1988.^[14] A 2023 review by Pitchfork's Nadine Smith described it as "a terrific showcase of his subversive and idiosyncratic country style", with its songwriting "land[ing] somewhere between magical realism and creative nonfiction".^[7]

Pontiac reached number 12 on Billboard's chart for Top Country Albums,^[15] and 117 on the Billboard 200.^[16]

All songs written by Lyle Lovett

1. "If I Had a Boat" – 3:06
2. "Give Back My Heart" – 3:00
3. "I Loved You Yesterday" – 2:56
4. "Walk Through the Bottomland" – 4:11
5. "L.A. County" – 3:17
6. "She's No Lady" – 3:13
7. "M-O-N-E-Y" – 3:15
8. "Black and Blue" – 3:58
9. "Simple Song" – 3:17
10. "Pontiac" – 2:24
11. "She's Hot to Go" – 2:30

• Tony Brown – producer
• Paul Franklin – steel guitar
• Vince Gill – guitar, background vocals (track 2)
• John Hagen – cello
• Emmylou Harris – background vocals (track 4)
• Ray Herndon – electric guitar
• Simon Levy – art direction
• Lyle Lovett – acoustic guitar, vocals, producer
• Steve Marsh – saxophone
• Matt McKenzie – electric bass
• Glenn Meadows – mastering
• Edgar Meyer – double bass
• Peter Nash – photography
• Willie Pevear – engineer
• Francine Reed – background vocals (tracks 2, 7, and 11)
• Matt Rollings – piano, DX-7 synthesizer
• J. David Sloan – background vocals
• Harry Stinson – drums, background Vocals
• Steve Tillisch – engineer, mixing
• Ron Treat – engineer
• Billy Williams – acoustic and rhythm guitar, associate producer
• Marty Williams – second engineer