What Really Happened to Dwight Yoakam?

what really happened to dwight yoakam dwight yoakam was born dwight david yokom on october 23 1956 in kentucky but raised in ohio yoakum learned how to play guitar at the age of six as a child he listened to his mother's record collection honing in on the traditional country of hank williams and johnny cash as well as the bakersfield honky tonk of buck owens when he was in high school joachim played with a variety of bands playing everything from country to rock and roll after completing high school joachim briefly attended ohio state university but he dropped out and moved to nashville in the late 70s with the intent of becoming a recording artist at the time he moved to nashville the town was in the throes of the pop-oriented urban cowboy movement and had no interest in his updated honky-tonk while in nashville he met guitarist pete anderson who shared a similar taste in music the pair moved out to los angeles where they found a more appreciative audience than they did in nashville in la jocom and anderson didn't just play country clubs they played the same nightclubs that punk and post-punk rock bands like x the dead kennedys los lobos the blasters and the butthole surfers did what yokam had in common with rock bands like x and the blasters was similar musical influences they all drew from 50s rock and roll and country in comparison to the polished music coming out of nashville yokom stripped down direct revivalism seemed radical the cowpunk as they were called that attended yokum shows provided invaluable support for his fledgling career yokum released an independent ep a town south of bakersfield in 1984 which received substantial airplay on los angeles college and alternative radio stations the ep also helped him land a record contract with reprise records dwight's full-length debut album guitars cadillacs was released in 1986 and was an instant sensation rock and country critics praised it and it earned airplay on college stations across america more importantly it was a hit on the country charts as its first single a cover of johnny horton's honky tonk man climbed to number three in the spring followed by the number four guitars cadillacs in the summer the album would eventually go platinum hillbilly deluxe dwight's 1987 follow-up was equally successful spawning four top ten hits little sister little ways please please baby and always late with your kisses in 1988 yokum had his first number one hit with streets of bakersfield a cover of a buck owen song recorded with owens himself it was the first single off his third album buenos noches from a lonely room which continued his streak of top 10 hits i sang dixie the album's second single went to number one and i got you reached number five in 1989 yokam released a compilation album just looking for a hit which went gold long white cadillac taken from the collection stalled at number 35 in the fall of 1989 although his 1990 album if there was a way didn't have as many top 10 hits it was a major success it was his first album since his debut to go platinum this time released in the spring of 1993 was an even bigger hit spawning three number two singles ain't that lonely yet a thousand miles from nowhere and fast as you and going platinum after its release yokum was silent for two years returning in the summer of 1995 with dwight live which didn't set the charts on fire in the fall of that year he released his sixth album gone which went gold by the spring of 1996 although it didn't produce any major country hits after 1997's under the covers a collection of cover songs yoakum returned with the all-new a long way home in 1998. another compilation last chance for a thousand years greatest hits from the 90s was released in 1999. its newly recorded version of queen's crazy little thing called love became yokum's biggest hit in six years even hitting the lower reaches of the pop charts thanks to its exposure in a khakis commercial two albums followed in 2000 a cover of cheap tricks i want you to want me in 2001 yokum 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 with population me while reprise issued the compilation in other's 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 yokom contributed to various tribute compilations an album of all new material the self-produced blame the vein followed in 2005 along with the live album live from austin texas an album of buck owens covers dwight sings buck appeared in 2007 released in 2012 three pairs joacom's first album since returning to warner brothers records after a trio of releases for new west records and his first album of original material since 2005's blame the vein featured a pair of beck productions a heart like mine and missing heart recorded at beck's home studio in california three pairs debuted at 18 on the billboard top 200 his highest chart position ever three years later yokom returned with second-hand heart in 2016 yokam took a step back even deeper into country music traditions with swimming pools movie stars his first bluegrass album featuring high lonesome reworkings of some of his best known tunes that's what happened to him

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Published: Wed Mar 31 2021