{"id":7954,"date":"2012-11-11T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=7954"},"modified":"2012-11-11T14:43:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T21:43:19","slug":"dwight-yoakam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/11\/dwight-yoakam\/","title":{"rendered":"DWIGHT YOAKAM"},"content":{"rendered":"

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DWIGHT YOAKAM\u00a0<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Country\u2019s hippest cowboy offers of-the-moment insights in a fresh new set<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Most of the time, Dwight Yoakam lives in the moment. The 55-year-old Kentucky native prefers not to have any long-term goals aside from continuing to find joy in his work. It\u2019s a strategy that\u2019s served him well in his near three decade career as a singer-songwriter-actor.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started doing more film work,\u00a0I began not waiting until I had time to sit down and write songs,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019d capture pieces or ideas and come back to the song in a week or a month.\u201d Or perhaps 19 years, as in \u201cTake Hold of My Hand,\u201d the opening track on his new album 3 Pears<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe song was from almost a previous lifetime,\u201d Yoakam says. \u201cI went to\u00a0Bobby\u2019s (Kid Rock) place to write\u00a0and pulled that out. We never got to anything else because we camped\u00a0on that immediately.\u201d\u00a0The rest of 3 Pears<\/em> was written in a relatively short three-year period, while recording the album took 10 months. In a surprising move, Yoakam brought Beck onboard to co-produce two songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mentioned I had this idea for kind of\u00a0a Creedence Clearwater Revival bounce groove,\u201d he says. \u201cBy the time I got to his home studio, he had cut a drum beat.\u00a0So I started singing, and before I knew\u00a0it, he had me plugged in.\u201d The resulting song,\u00a0\u201cA Heart Like Mine,\u201d ranks among some of his best of the past decade.<\/p>\n

More than 25 years after his major-label debut, Yoakam is back on Warner Bros., and just like on that first album\u2014recorded in what he wryly calls \u201cthe halcyon days of cowpunk\u201d\u2014he\u2019s again covered \u201cRing of Fire.\u201d \u201cI had recorded it in a rockabilly kind of style,\u201d he explains. \u201cAfter John and June passed away, I began performing it in a 4\/4 rock \u2019n\u2019 roll feel. Then I shifted to more of a [former T. Rex frontman] Marc Bolan treatment. We also shifted the harmony parts to do a bit of mountain echo back to June Carter\u2019s roots.\u201d The change in styles can be attributed to Yoakam\u2019s musical evolution. Still grounded in country\u2019s Bakersfield Sound, he allows himself to be guided by spontaneity and emotion: \u201cI began by explaining who I was by musically saying where I came from, Appalachia. Then I began moving into articulating what I had heard. Now I\u2019m expressing what I\u00a0feel in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Juli Thanki<\/p>\n

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DWIGHT YOAKAM\u00a0 Country\u2019s hippest cowboy offers of-the-moment insights in a fresh new set Most of the time, Dwight Yoakam lives in the moment. The 55-year-old Kentucky native prefers not to have any long-term goals aside from continuing to find joy in his work. It\u2019s a strategy that\u2019s served him well in his near three decade […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[5317,5316,5314,1013,4631,4497,5315,5077,5318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7957,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions\/7957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}