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- Date Released: November 1, 2005
- Genre: Country/Folk
- Style: Contemporary Country, Live Country/Folk
- Label: New West Records
The man who brought Bakersfield back.
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We Say...
When Dwight Yoakam recorded this sparkling live set for the Austin City Limits television show in 1988, many still viewed his accession to stardom with a certain amount of suspicion. Nashville's obstinately conservative country music establishment thought he was a Californian parvenu, and the alternative sector regarded him as a pretty-boy pin-up packaged by the Music Row Machiavellis. Both were wrong.
The actually Kentucky-born, Ohio-raised, latterly Los Angeles-based Yoakam was no more or less than an extraordinarily fine singer and songwriter, besotted equally by the legacies of Gram Parsons and Buck Owens (an earlier appearance by Yoakam on Austin City Limits had persuaded Owens to end a decade of retirement, and Yoakam settled the debt in full with 2007's Dwight Sings Buck tribute album). By the time Yoakam made this recording, he'd filled three superb albums with delivery on his promise: 1986's Guitars, Cadillacs, 1987's Hillbilly Deluxe, 1988's Buenos Noches from a Lonely Room.
This set draws from all three of those records. While it inevitably lacks the gleaming polish of Yoakam's always immaculately produced recordings, it radiates the raffish, easygoing energy that eventually overwhelmed Yoakam's detractors and saw him embraced equally ardently by Nashville and by the alt-country tendency. Yoakam's exhumation and reanimation of Owens' zestful, poppy Bakersfield Sound of the '50s and '60s was, and remains, irresistible, and the clear highlight of this set is Owens' appearance on a rousing version of his signature tune "Streets of Bakersfield." -
They Say...
The man who brought the Bakersfield sound back to the country charts, Dwight Yoakam, was on the road supporting his third album (and one of his best), 1988's Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room, when he and his band made a stop in Austin, TX, to appear on one of television's best showcases for quality roots music, PBS' Austin City Limits. Yoakam was at once a staunch traditionalist and a nervy Young Turk when he played his ACL gig, and both sides shine through in the performance, which has been issued on compact disc as Live from Austin, TX. Yoakam and his band (including guitarist Pete Anderson) burn though these songs with plenty of spark, and demonstrate that the best sort of respect to show this music is to play it with the same swagger and confidence that Buck Owens, Johnny Horton, and Merle Haggard showed back in the day. While Yoakam is still doing that today, there's something fresh and emphatic here that shines brighter than on some of his later work, and if this disc isn't as ambitious as the later Dwight Live, on its own modest terms it's the more satisfying listen. Added value: Buck Owens and Flaco Jimenez stop by to re-create their cameo spots on "Streets of Bakersfield," with Owens in particularly feisty form.
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| 01. |  |
Guitars, Cadillacs |
4:00 |
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| 02. | |
Smoke Along The Track |
3:41 |
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| 03. | |
What I Don't Know |
4:07 |
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| 04. | |
Home Of The Blues |
3:09 |
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| 05. | |
1,000 Miles |
4:24 |
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| 06. | |
Please, Please Baby |
3:22 |
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| 07. | |
Little Ways |
3:03 |
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| 08. | |
Honky Tonk Man |
3:02 |
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| 09. | |
Streets Of Bakersfield |
3:29 |
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| 10. | |
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) |
4:37 |
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| 11. | |
Always Late With Your Kisses |
2:19 |
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| 12. | |
Little Sister |
3:52 |
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| 13. | |
I Sang Dixie |
4:36 |
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| 14. | |
This Drinkin' Will Kill Me |
4:23 |
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14 Total Tracks, 52:04 Total Length
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Credits
- Buck Owens - Guest Appearance // Buck Owens - Guest Appearance // Dwight Yoakam - Guitar (Acoustic) // Dwight Yoakam - Vocals // Pete Anderson - Guitar // Flaco Jiménez - Guest Appearance // Flaco Jiménez - Guest Appearance // Flaco Jiménez - Guest Appearance // Steve Gustafson - Associate Producer // Chet Himes - Mixing // Scott Joss - Fiddle // Taras Prodaniuk - Bass // Jeff Donavan - Drums // Katherine Delaney - Design // Katherine Delaney - Package Design // Jerry Tubb - Audio Master // Gary Briggs - Producer // Gary Briggs - Mixing // Cameron Strang - Producer // Cameron Strang - Executive Producer // Gary Laird - Editing // Terry Liekona - Producer
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