Dwight Yoakam : A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
ISBN: 9780292723818 | 0292723814
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Texas Pr
Pub. Date: 3/15/2012
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From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-'80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other--commercial country and its alternative/Americana/roots-rocking counterpart. Defying the label "too country for rock, too rock for country," Yoakam has triumphed while many of his pee... MORE
| Introduction: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere | p. 1 |
| How Far Is Heaven? | p. 11 |
| Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23 | p. 21 |
| South of Cincinnati, West of Columbus | p. 31 |
| Corvette Cowboy | p. 41 |
| From Kentucky Bourbon to Babylonian Cowboys | p. 49 |
| Who You Callin' Cowpunk? | p. 59 |
| Honky-Tonk Man | p. 67 |
| "It's Jes' Ol' Hillbilly Stuff" | p. 79 |
| ... MORE | p. 91 |
| Streets of Bakersfield | p. 101 |
| Bonus Cut | p. 111 |
| "Well, I'm Back Again…" | p. 115 |
| Wild Ride | p. 125 |
| Gone, Real Gone | p. 139 |
| Act Naturally | p. 151 |
| The Same Fool | p. 157 |
| Playing Out the String | p. 165 |
| South of Heaven, West of Hell (and Off the Charts) | p. 171 |
| Splitsville | p. 181 |
| Produced | p. 189 |
| The Buck Stops Here | p. 197 |
| "I Wanna Love Again, Feel Young Again" | p. 205 |
| Appendix. The Dwight Dozen: A Selected Discography | p. 215 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 217 |
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Don McLeese was formerly the pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Austin American-Statesman, as well as country music columnist and frequent contributor to Rolling Stone and a senior editor for No Depression. He has chronicled Dwight Yoakam in reviews, features, and interviews since the beginning of the artist's recording career. He lives in West Des Moines, Iowa, and currently teaches journalism at the University of Iowa.
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