TopTenREVIEWS presents the music career and reviews of Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
CAREER SPAN:
Decade
Album Score
# Albums
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews for each album.
Overall Band Score:
2.7805
Dwight Yoakam Album Rankings
1
When Dwight Yoakam first came on the scene, with his hip retro-attitude, concha-studded jeans, and music that often grazed the edge of rock & roll, it was hard to tell whether the California cowboy wa
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2
The third effort from Kentucky's Dwight Yoakam shows the first signs of beginning to stretch out and be comfortable with his unique approach to hard honky tonk music, Bakersfield-style.
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3
Six years after his monumental debut recording,Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Dwight Yoakam is still delivering the goods.
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4
It may be the 20th anniversary of its original release, but Dwight Yoakam'sGuitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.still gleams as it did in 1986.
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5
Released in 1989 just three years after his debut,Just Lookin' for a Hitmay have been a bit premature for a greatest-hits album, but it did the trick and sold better than any album Dwight Yoakam had t
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6
Two decades into a career that has balanced fully-deserved critical acclaim with a long run of commercial success, Dwight Yoakam has, like so many other veterans of country music pushed aside in favor
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7
Hillbilly Deluxeproves beyond the shadow of a doubt that Dwight Yoakam'sGuitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.was no fluke.
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8
The playing is terrific throughout..
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9
With his eleventh album, "A Long Way Home," Los Angelesbased, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam repledges his troth to the classic country & western that originally fueled his fire.
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10
Yoakam's latest, Population Me , takes an especially fatalistic view of life, from a song about a crumbling California to the barren romantic landscape of the title track.
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11
Is there any singer better suited to record an album of Buck Owens covers than Dwight Yoakam? Yoakam first came onto the country scene in the 1980s as the new face and voice of Bakersfield country, a
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12
This collection of odds-and-ends showcases the Los Angeles country veteran's versatility, and his personality.
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13
Gone is Yoakam's most eclectic record, just not his most focused.
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14
Dwight Yoakam is one of the few original New Country artists of the '80s who has managed to stay his course and enjoy pretty consistent success on famously conservative country radio.
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15
Given how easily Dwight Yoakam makes the songs of others his own, including classics like "Sin City" and "Streets of Bakersfield" as well as the Doc Pomus nugget "Little Sister," it's a wonder it too
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16
For all its professed love of traditional values, commercial country radio has become as processed and modern as any pop station, with pretty blondes and big-hatted hunks driving out the genre's pion
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18
Dwight Yoakam's Come on Christmas is a rollicking set of rocking holiday classics that is ironically highlighted by the title track, a haunting original that is one of Yoakam's best songs of the late
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20
In Others' Words is a contract fullfiller, or just Reprise attempting to cash in on Dwight Yoakam once more.
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23
In the late '80s, Dwight Yoakam's adherence to country music's roots made his string of hits a bracing antidote to the milquetoast cornpone that often surrounded it on Nashville-dominated radio stati
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