Dwight Yoakam : Swinging Doors
Dwight Yoakam - Ain't That Lonely Yet - Live 1993
Dwight Yoakam performs a medley of hits during Opry Live
Dwight Yoakam - In The Garden
- Date of Birth: 23 October, 1956
- Place of Birth: Pikeville, Kentucky, United States
- Biography: Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter and actor, most famous for his country music. Active since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, and has charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts.
Filmography
- Crank: High Voltage (2009)
- The Last Rites of Ransom Pride (2009)
- Four Christmases (2008)
- 2:13 (2008)
- Crank (2006)
- The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (2006)
- Bandidas (2006)
- Wedding Crashers (2005)
- Three Way (2004)
- Hollywood Homicide (2003)
- Waking Up in Reno (2002)
- Panic Room (2002)
News
W ay back when, Dwight Yoakam found a way to sell hardcore hillbilly country music - that of the high nasal voice, gut-bucket guitar and fiddles - to an audience that country tastemakers in Nashville didn't know existed. ... Full Article
Corb Lund: voice of experience
thestar.com –
2009-10-18
At age 40 and now six albums into a musical career that's as distinctive and musically adventurous as those of his unwitting mentors, Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett and Neil Young - all of them renegades in the country music fold... ... Full Article
All that could change soon: Corb and company just signed with New West Records, whose eclectic roster (Ray Davies, Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle) makes it the perfect vehicle for introducing Lund's intelligent indie-twang to the U.S. of A. ... Full Article
Attuned to his students
jsonline.com –
2009-05-30
Posted: May. 30, 2009 They have day jobs, or they used to. The man on the sofa is an IRS litigator. Two women next to him are retired schoolteachers. ... Full Article
After my second time seeing the unnervingly young L.A. singer-songwriter Maxim Ludwig and his band, the Santa Fe Seven, (once at Stagecoach and then Wednesday night at the Troubadour), I hereby put out a call to P&H's myriad Nashville power-player... ... Full Article
Comedian Jay Leno, America's top-rated TV host, will bow out of his 17-year stint on "The Tonight Show" on May 29 in the company of his successor Conan O'Brien and singer James Taylor. ... Full Article