They didn’t knock the charts over like Brooks soon would, but they recreated country in their 10-gallon English-major image. Most particular to these smarty-pants country stakes were Earle, who would go on to become a sort of ragged poet laureate to the cause, and Lovett, the sartorially correct, talk-singing, dry-humored toast of Houston. Lovett has been absent for a minute, busy as he’s been becoming a late-in-life husband and a later-in-life first-time father to twins. But Lovett started his spare-sounding, two-man tour of (mostly) City Wineries across America in May, concluding it with a three-night stand at its Philadelphia outpost. Amorosi; photos by Chris Sikich (taken two days earlier at City Winery Philadelphia)