Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakamis an American singer-songwriter, actor, and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty one albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth23 October 1956
CityPikeville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.
In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.
But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
I was very fortunate in having David Fincher, the director come to me. Now I've seen the finished product, I feel that every bit of the nine months we spent on the film was worth it.
I think actors are at the mercy of the opportunities presented to them. So you kind of have to wait for them to choose you. My music is insular - I can choose that.
I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.
I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.
Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
I embrace country music because of love, a love of what I came from.
I'll never quit playing country music, or at least acknowledging it, always, as the cornerstone of what I am.
I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.