• album cover of If There Was a Way by Dwight Yoakam
    Country

    My Dwight Masterpiece: If There Was a Way

    Tonight I’m reaching back to the archives for my favorite Dwight Yoakam album, 1990’s If There Was a Way. It’s a great record start to finish, and my cassette – yes cassette – got many listens in its day. Dwight…

  • Country

    Dwight’s Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc.

    My appreciation for country music has always lied squarely outside of the Nashville mainstream country machine. I’ll take the old school country any day of the week: the Willies, Waylons, and Johnny Cashes. But the manufactured new school of country…

  • Country,  New Orleans

    Buck + Dwight = Hank

    The last week has featured some Cajun sounds, a little 80’s Minneapolis funk, and some old school country. Now to marry it all up, it’s Buckwheat Zydeco’s collaboration with Dwight Yoakam. They got together in 1990 to lay down their…