 | The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam [Read More ...]
Description: Moving to Los Angeles after an unproductive stint in Nashville, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam made a name for himself by reviving the more robust honky-tonk traditions of the Bakersfield Sound--a bold contrast with Music City's assembly-line approach. In 1984, his independently rel... |
 | Dwight Sings Buck [Read More ...]
Description: Of course, you're thinking, when did Dwight not sing Buck? A fine question, since Yoakam built much of his vocal style around that of the late Bakersfield master, and recorded with him on occasion, the two even collaborating on Owens's own work ("Streets of Bakersfield"). So whi... |
 | Come on Christmas [Read More ...]
Description: Dwight Yoakam's work as an interpretive singer has been solid and, as far as Christmas music albums go, this one is informed with Yoakam's great vocal talents and a country band that can get these tunes to swing in any juke joint. The rumba of "Here Comes Santa Claus" is a tad fo... |
 | This Time [Read More ...]
Description: Cover art, front: a behatted (of course) Dwight, face completely hidden. Back: a shapely, half-nude model sporting a Persistence of Memory-style clock eyeing a sink overflowing with water and calendar pages. Title tune: one of Yoakam's most hardcore Bakersfield 'tonkers. It sits ... |
 | Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room [Read More ...]
Description: Yoakam's third album finds him more daring in his incorporation of Creedence-style rock guitar fills--Pete Anderson, take a bow--and Tex-Mex polka into his Bakersfield stomp. Class resentment and murderous jealousy color this disc much more than its predecessors; "I Sang Dixie" i... |
 | If There Was a Way [Read More ...]
Description: Dwight Yoakam's fourth studio album was his most muscular yet. Alongside the overtly rocking cuts, his honky-tonkers also kicked harder than anywhere in his catalog; on top of all this, he gave his loosest, most assured-sounding vocal performances to date. That he cowrote one of ... |
 | Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. [Read More ...]
Description: Both the introduction to hard country for a generation of college kids and a key entry in what became the neotraditionalist movement, Dwight Yoakam's debut was a near-perfect re-creation of Buck Owens's Bakersfield sound. "Bury Me" and "Miner's Prayer" are heartfelt homages to Yo... |
 | Hillbilly Deluxe [Read More ...]
Description: Yoakam was coming off a platinum debut album with a wiseass title (Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc.) when he released Hillbilly Deluxe. Neither as hard-nosed nor as bereft as he'd soon be sounding, Deluxe was nonetheless both a smart, stylized missive and the kind of nouveau honky-t... |
 | dwightyoakamacoustic.net [Read More ...]
Description: Here are some of Yoakam's best moments--which is to say some of the finest moments of recent country music history--distilled to their intoxicating essence. With only a simply strummed acoustic guitar to accompany these tales of lost love, shattered dreams, and barstool miser... |
 | Gone [Read More ...]
Description: With utter assurance and several shots of sly humor, Dwight Yoakam moved into his second decade of recording with Gone, his most daring album to date. Displaying a full command of styles as far afield as Al Green-style soul ("Nothing"), straight-up honky-tonk ("Don't Be Sad"), Te... |
 | A Long Way Home [Read More ...]
Description: In the vein of 1995's Gone, Dwight Yoakam continues to argue for an alternative-country future. Expanding his retro Bakersfield sound with significant flourishes of more contemporary and not-so-contemporary pop, rock, and soul, A Long Way Home is an aurally stunning and eclectic ... |
 | Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's [Read More ...]
Description: All those folks who contemptuously dismiss today's mainstream country and wish they could have been around for the heyday of Lefty Frizzell and Buck Owens are missing the boat. Right now, right in front of us, the Frizzell-like George Strait and Owensesque Dwight Yoakam are quiet... |
 | Dwight's Used Records [Read More ...]
Description: In what could almost have been the fifth disc of his box set, Yoakam pairs three previously unreleased recordings with 11 collaborations, tribute-album tracks, and other odds and sods. There are some predictably oil-and-water mismatches in singing partners (Deana Carter on "Waiti... |
 | Tomorrow's Sounds Today [Read More ...]
Description: Though Dwight Yoakam is tagged with a well-deserved (and in his case complimentary) "outsider" label, he is, ironically, one of country music's most accessible artists. Tomorrow's Sounds Today, his follow-up to the wonderful, acoustic-only Dwightyoakamacoustic.net, is proof. Whil... |
 | Blame the Vain [Read More ...]
Description: Dwight Yoakam occupies a singular position in contemporary country. No artist has better balanced mainstream commercial success with artistic, alt-country credibility, while somehow managing to embody both the music's most traditional and its most progressive impulses. Blame the ... |
 | Under the Covers [Read More ...]
Description: A rather mediocre and often puzzling outing for the multitalented Mr. Yoakam. While the idea of Under the Covers--Dwight trying his hand at songs by the likes of the Beatles, Them, the Clash, Roy Orbison, Ray Davies, and the Rolling Stones--sounds good on paper, it's an uneven ri... |
 | If There Was a Way [Read More ...]
Description: Dwight Yoakam's fourth studio album was his most muscular yet. Alongside the overtly rocking cuts, his honky-tonkers also kicked harder than anywhere in his catalog; on top of all this, he gave his loosest, most assured-sounding vocal performances to date. That he cowrote one of ... |
 | Hillbilly Deluxe [Read More ...]
Description: Yoakam was coming off a platinum debut album with a wiseass title (Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc.) when he released Hillbilly Deluxe. Neither as hard-nosed nor as bereft as he'd soon be sounding, Deluxe was nonetheless both a smart, stylized missive and the kind of nouveau honky-t... |
 | Dwight Live [Read More ...]
Description: Dwight Live, with its generous helping of 17 songs, provides a useful summary of Yoakam's career thus far. He's recorded all but one of the songs before, but the six numbers from the '80s are deepened by everything Yoakam and his terrific band have learned from their years on the... |
 | Platinum Collection [Read More ...]
Import-only collection featuring the absolute best tracks from Dwight's days with WEA. 19 tracks including 'Streets Of Bakersfield' (With Buck Owens), 'Guitars, Cadillacs', 'These Arms', 'Heartaches By The Number' ' Honky Tonk Man' and many more. Warner. 2006. |
