With a nasal twang and a pair of jeans shrink-wrapped to his slinky pelvis, Dwight Yoakam plowed a furrow across conventional country, bringing back the Bakersfield sound. But for the past few years, he’s kept a low profile, going five […]
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Exactly twenty years have passed since Dwight Yoakam, playing the Kern County Fair, met his hero Buck Owens and coaxed him back onstage after years of semiretirement, leading to their 1988 #1 duet on “Streets Of Bakersfield” and a lasting, […]
On an oppressively sweaty summer night back in 1987, I saw Dwight Yoakam and his Babylon Cowboys perform at a club in Kansas City, Missouri. Yoakam was already a “star” at this point, with four or five top-10 country hits […]
Dwight Yoakam’s eighteenth album, his first self-produced effort, is a mishmash of the tried-and-true old and the very strange new. On the opening title track, Yoakam returns to the driving rock reminiscent of one of his best songs, “Fast As […]
Dwight Yoakam took a fair amount of critical heat for 1997’s Under The Covers, on which he crooned his way through everything from “Train In Vain” to “Witchita Lineman”. He definitely turned them into Dwight Yoakam songs — turns out […]
Following an artist for any length of time involves putting up with some self-indulgence, since they’ve got to keep themselves interested enough to keep going. With rock bands, that might be in-concert drum solos or misguided solo projects. Jazz musicians […]
I gotta hand it to Dwight Yoakam, even if I’m turned off sometimes by what I see as his self-defeating posturing and pretensions (and relax, people, I already know mine’s a minority position). I can’t think of too many artists […]
Quick — name three Dwight Yoakam songs. Not as easy as you’d think, is it? Nothing against the man’s songwriting abilities, but let’s face facts here: “Songwriting” is not the first word that leaps to mind when one ponders the […]
Way back at the dawn of his career, a shocking 15 years of hair loss ago now, Dwight Yoakam looked to be crossover big. Riffing on Buck Owens and Don Rich, Yoakam and longtime collaborator Pete Anderson were presented as […]
Let’s cut to the chase: Gone is Dwight Yoakam’s best record. The writing is top notch–all the heartbreak and loneliness we’ve come to expect. That voice, oh that voice: it’s still the epitome of high and lonesome. And Gone isn’t […]
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