Yoakam acted in his first movie in 1993, holding his own opposite Dennis Hopper and Nicolas Cage in John Dahl's indie noir Red Rock West. That same year, his third record, This Time, went platinum; it's still the biggest-selling album he's ever made. He says he never felt like he...
Dwight Yoakam hasn’t released an all-new studio album since 2005’s “Blame the Vain”, but that will change this fall with his return to Warner Music. The trad-country master spoke about the still-untitled effort, which will include a collaboration with alt-folk-rap star Beck, during a...
Malone has long collaborated with Dwight Yoakam, marking a friendship and professional partnership that spans his career. Yoakam is a GRAMMY-winning trailblazer known for his pioneering blend of honky tonk, rock and punk that shook up the country scene in the 80's ...
“Big Iron” and “Just Married” are two more of the crooner’s No. 1 hits from the 1950s, but he’d notch at least one in four straight decades. The Grammy winner was also an actor and part-time NASCAR driver. It’s been a long time since country music had a singer who tried...
It was Page 1 news when the town’s two local country luminaries, Buck Owens and Merle Haggard, announced in June that they would play together for the first time in 25 years. Dwight Yoakam would join them. He’d had a big part in coaxing Owens back onstage once before. As a young...