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Dwight Yoakam
On rare occasions, a sense of the past is mated with
a fierce, intransigent vision of the future, and something new is born.
Something new like the music of Dwight Yoakam.
Initially, the Kentucky native burst onto the scene in the early '80s
by driving an alternate route of his own invention. Hailed as a "Renaissance
Man" by Time magazine, Dwight creates music that, according to the
Los Angeles Times, is "rooted in the rawest of country traditions
(Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, et al), but it's aggressively contemporary
without pandering to fleeting pop trends." Vanity Fair has also noted:
Yoakam stlinks the divide between rock's lust and country's lament."
Dwight’s first burst onto the scene with his six-song 1984 debut
EP "Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc." – a record that attracted
the attention of devotees of rock's most progressive sounds. "Guitars,
Cadillacs," issued independently by a small Hollywood label, was
re-released in 1986, augmented by four new songs, on Reprise Records.
That album, and the six studio sets that followed it, encapsulate Dwight's
uncompromising approach to modern country. They are: "Hillbilly Deluxe"
(1987), "Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room" (1988), "Just
Lookin' For A Hit" 1989), "If There Was A Way" (1990) –
all of which have sold more than 1 million units – plus "This
Time" (1993), Dwight's double-platinum bestseller, "Gone"
(1995).
After 1997's Under the Covers, a collection of cover songs, Yoakam returned
with the all-new A Long Way Home in 1998. Two albums followed in 2000:
dwightyoakamacoustic.net, a bare-bones, all-acoustic revisitation of Yoakam's
back catalog; and the more standard studio project Tomorrow's Sounds Today,
which featured further collaborations with Buck Owens and a cover of Cheap
Trick's "I Want You to Want Me."
In 2001, Yoakam debuted as a writer and director, also issuing the soundtrack
South of Heaven, West of Hell to accompany it. Two years later, he debuted
on a new label (Audium) with Population Me, while Reprise issued the compilation
In Others' Words to compete with it. In 2004 he released Dwight's Used
Records, a 14-track anthology of duets that appeared on other artists'
albums, unreleased covers, and cuts Yoakam contributed to various tribute
compilations. An album of all new material, the self-produced Blame the
Vain, followed in 2005 along with the live album Live from Austin, TX.
~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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