Description
Book SynopsisAward-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of the electrifying artist who has most successfully bridged the disparate worlds of commercial country and alternative/Americana/roots music, Dwight Yoakam.
Trade ReviewThis lovingly crafted and compulsively readable biography is essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing. * Library Journal *
Table of Contents
- Introduction: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
- 1. How Far Is Heaven?
- 2. Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23
- 3. South of Cincinnati, West of Columbus
- 4. Corvette Cowboy
- 5. From Kentucky Bourbon to Babylonian Cowboys
- 6. Who You Callin' Cowpunk?
- 7. Honky-Tonk Man
- 8. "It's Jes' Ol' Hillbilly Stuff"
- 9. Hillbilly Deluxe
- 10. Streets of Bakersfield
- 11. Bonus Cut
- 12. "Well, I'm Back Again . . ."
- 13. Wild Ride
- 14. Gone, Real Gone
- 15. Act Naturally
- 16. The Same Fool
- 17. Playing Out the String
- 18. South of Heaven, West of Hell (and Off the Charts)
- 19. Splitsville
- 20. Produced by Dwight Yoakam
- 21. The Buck Stops Here
- 22. "I Wanna Love Again, Feel Young Again"
- Appendix. The Dwight Dozen: A Selected Discography
- Acknowledgments
