With the rockabilly Takes A Lot To Rock You Baby, If There Was a Way (Reprise, 1990), that also pays attention to rhythm Homer Joy' Streets of Bakersfield, a duet with Buck Owens, and especially I Sang Dixie, one of his all-time best. Please Please Baby, and Always Late with Your Kisses.īuenas Noches from a Lonely Room (Reprise, 1988), a darker set thatĮmphasizes the psychological nuances of his delivery (songs such as Little Sister, Little Ways (perhaps the standout), Hillbilly Deluxe (Reprise, 1987) turned him into a star, thanks to The travelling hobo, the desolate loser and the stubborn optimist. The album codified his three-pronged artistic persona: Was as exciting as someone singing Bob Dylan's acoustic songs 30 years later,īut somehow that style and that "twang" represented the mood of the times Johnny Horton's Honky Tonk Man and especially Guitars Cadillacs, Guitars Cadillacs Etc Etc (Reprise, 1986), that contains Yoakam's simple, unadorned, plain revisitation of the tradition on theĮP A Town South of Bakersfield (Oak, 1984)
Haggard but came to symbolize the neo-traditionalist school of country music. Nashville, Ohio-raised but Los Angeles-based signer Dwight Yoakam is aĭisciple of the honky-tonk school of such irregulars as Buck Owens and Merle South of Heaven West of Hell (2001), 5/10Ī country artist who was more appreciated by the punk audience than by ( Copyright © 1999 Piero Scaruffi | Terms of use)īuenos Noches from a Lonely Room (1988), 6.5/10 Dwight Yoakam: biography, discography, reviews, links
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