Dwight Yoakam - The Beginning And Then Some: The Albums Of The '80s (Record Store Day, Compilation, Special Edition)

Description

Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American country singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. He first achieved mainstream attention in 1986 with the release of his debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.. Yoakam had considerable success throughout the late 1980s onward, with a total of ten studio albums for Reprise Records. Later projects have been released on Audium (now MNRK Music Group), New West, Warner, and Sugar Hill Records. His first three albums—Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Hillbilly Deluxe, and Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room—all reached number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. Yoakam also has two number-one singles on Hot Country Songs with "Streets of Bakersfield" (a duet with Buck Owens) and "I Sang Dixie", and twelve additional top-ten hits. He has won two Grammy Awards and one Academy of Country Music award. 1993's This Time is his most commercially successful album, having been certified triple-platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Yoakam's musical style draws from a wide variety of influences including neotraditional country, honky-tonk, Bakersfield sound, bluegrass music, country rock, and rockabilly. He is known for his distinctive tenor singing voice, unconventional musical image, and the lead guitar work of his longtime producer and bandleader Pete Anderson. Yoakam writes most of his own songs but has recorded many successful cover songs by a wide range of artists including Johnny Horton, Elvis Presley, Cheap Trick, The Blasters, Lefty Frizzell, and Queen. He has collaborated with Beck, John Mellencamp, k.d. lang, Ralph Stanley, and members of Alison Krauss & Union Station. As an actor, Yoakam has appeared in the movies Red Rock West, Sling Blade, Panic Room, The Minus Man, and Wedding Crashers, Four Christmases, as well as South of Heaven, West of Hell, his writing/directorial debut. He also appeared in the TV series P.S. I Luv U and Under the Dome, as well as the Amazon Prime Video original series Goliath.

Release Info

Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Label: Rhino Records (2)
Format: Record Store Day, Compilation, Special Edition
Country:
Label: Rhino Records (2)
Released: 2024-04-20
Genre: Folk, World, & Country
Style: Country

Tracklist

Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
A1 Honky Tonk Man
A2 It Won't Hurt
A3 I'll Be Gone
A4 South Of Cincinnati
A5 Bury Me (Duet With Mary McKee)
B1 Guitars, Cadillacs
B2 Twenty Years
B3 Ring Of Fire
B4 Miner's Prayer
B5 Heartaches By The Number
Hillbilly Deluxe
A1 Little Ways
A2 Smoke Along The Track
A3 Johnson's Love
A4 Please, Please Baby
A5 Readin', Rightin' RT. 23
B1 Always Late With Your Kisses
B2 `1,000 Miles
B3 Throughout All Time
B4 Little Sister
B5 This Drinkin' Will Kill Me
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
A1 I Got You
A2 One More Name
A3 What I Don't Know
A4 Home Of The Blues
A5 Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
B1 I hear You Knockin'
B2 I Sang Dixie
B3 Streets Of Bakersfield
B4 Floyd County
B5 Send Me To The Pillow
B6 Hold On To God
So Forth & So On
A1 This Drinkin' Will Kill Me (1981 Demo)
A2 It Won't Hurt (1981 Demo)
A3 I'll Be Gone (1981 Demo)
A4 Floyd County (1981 Demo)
A5 You're The One (1981 Demo)
A6 Twenty Years (1981 Demo)
B1 Please Daddy (1981 Demo)
B2 Miner's Prayer (1981 Demo)
B3 I Sang Dixie (1981 Demo)
B4 Bury Me (1981 Demo)
B5 Long White Cadillac (1981 Demo)
B6 Sin City (With K.D. Lang)
B7 Christmas Eve With The Babylonian Cowboys