Dwight Yoakam News

I just returned from seeing the new Sandra Bullock movie, The Blind Side , co-starring Tim McGraw , and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Inside the pocket of the Arena Towers, you'll find several hundred very happy Dwight Yoakam fans.

Most mornings, Rocks Off wakes up to Elizabeth Cook's country-as-cornbread drawl on her Outlaw Country satellite-radio program, "Apron Strings" . On her 2007 LP Balls - produced by the Houston Kid himself, Rodney Crowell - Cook was as frank and charming on songs like "Times Are Tough In Rock and Roll" and "Sometimes It Takes Balls To Be a Woman." ...

Today Yoakam has some new songs written but no plan yet for putting them in the possession of his listeners.

With all his fans, Dwight Yoakam is never that lonely yet. Details: 8 p.m. Saturday, November 21, at the Arena Theatre, 7326 Southwest Fwy., 713-772-5900 or www.arenahouston.com . Dwight Yoakam All Dwight Yoakam 's local fans who have been waiting for him to please, please come back to Houston can now say "Thank you." When he came racing out of ...

The late Bob Claypool did exhaustive research for his book Saturday Night at Gilley's . a Other than his adopted Los Angeles, Houston may be the most important city in country singer Dwight Yoakam's career.

"I'm country to the bone," Marty Stuart told the world on his 1992 song Me and Hank and Jumpin' Jack Flash.

Her peers consider Dolly Parton to be among the best singer-songwriters around, in the company of legends Mother Maybelle Carter and Kitty Wells.

Out of all the new country singers to emerge in the early '80s, George Strait stayed the closest to traditional country.

He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage.

Justin Moore celebrated his first No. 1 single in a big way Monday by performing a mini-concert for a throng of music business insiders at the BMI building in Nashville.

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Actress Jessica Stroup is 23. Singer Barbara Ann Hawkins of The Dixie Cups is 66.

A singer who fused honky-tonk with rock and roll, Dwight Yoakam, with his trademark white cowboy hat, emerged during the late 1980s as one of the more respected country artists.

At age 40 and now six albums into a musical career that's as distinctive and musically adventurous as those of his unwitting mentors, Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett and Neil Young all of them renegades in the country music fold Taber, Alta., songwriter Corb Lund is grappling for the first time with the kinds of personal worries, events and political ...

Looking to hear some live music this weekend? The Big Fresno Fair is up and running with some big musical acts, while a popular country band returns to Visalia.

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 12, 2009: /CMHOF/ The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's third annual All for the Hall fundraiser, featuring distinguished talents Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, and Melissa Etheridge, and hosted by Chris Isaak, proved to be an extraordinarily moving experience.

Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam and other singer-songwriters nimbly display music's varied forms in a casual fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

With his stripped-down approach to traditional honky tonk and Bakersfield country, Dwight Yoakam helped return country music to its roots in the late '80s. Like his idols Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams, Yoakam never played by Nashville's rules; consequently, he never dominated the charts like his contemporary Randy Travis.

Tyler Veronelly of Big Dog 92.7 weighed in this morning with his wish list for the 2010 Craven Country Jamboree: Dwight Yoakam as a classic artist, Deric Ruttan as a Canadian artist and how about another crack at Trace Adkins? I'll also second the "Please Don't Bring Rascal Flatts" suggestion in your Wish List Update #4! Gary LeVox has the tightest ...