Dwight Yoakam - A Long Way Home
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Free Music Review: Tour de force return to form
Hit: 5 Stars
Opening with steel guitars chasing amplified acoustics, Yoakam tips his broad-brimmed hat to Buck Owens and serves notice that he's rested and fully recovered from the previous year's mediocre "Under the Covers." Pete Anderson's inventive production combines with twelve superb Yoakam songs to create melodies that linger in the air like ghosts of sad affairs.This year's model deftly spots vibes, organ, strings, and fuzz guitars as unobtrusive support for Yoakam's classic sound. His voice combines all the passion and mellifluous tone that have marked his very best records. His tales of lost and unrequited love will fill your beer glass with tears: "The Curse" walks on a rhythm plucked from Johnny Cash and a lyric born of a charred heart. "These Arms" features the fiddle and piano of an empty embrace. "Only Want You More" burns with honky-tonk guitar and a spider's web of fatal attraction. "Traveler's Lantern" matches Yoakam with the banjo and high, lonesome harmony of Ralph Stanley.
A most welcome return of a singular talent.
Free Music Review: Great
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, I'd like to say that I loved this album. I don't know where people get that this is "alternative country". It sounds like real, true, traditional country to me. I guess because we don't hear much of that type of country anymore, it's hard to categorize different artists and styles. I'd also like to say to the Johnny Wilson person who reviewed this album before me--If you don't like country music, fine! But you don't have to bash it and try to ruin it for the people who do like it. If you hate, then don't listen to it. But country music is and always will be the BEST! Hello, is rock music so great? You can't even understand half the lyrics to the songs and most of the singers have stupid names like "Marilyn Manson" and "Nine Inch Nails". If you read the review guidelines closely, it says "please focus your review on the album content." Therefore, you aren't suppose to share your deep inner feelings about country music.Free Music Review: excellent
Hit: 5 Stars
I waited 3 years for Dwight to release another album of all-new, all-original material, and I can say with no reservations that it has been well worth the wait. Though he does back down somewhat from the different styles that made "Gone" such a muscial accomplishment, the traditional sounds (Dwight-style) work every bit as well. Perhaps Dwight's assertion in the first track, "Same Fool," can also be seen as a reassurance to the fan that, though Dwight's style varies from album to album, what the listener will hear is the same wonderful voice crooning the songs that are just as good as ever. The collection of songs on this album are varied enough so the album does not become boring (after repeated listenings, I can testify to that!); "Things Change," "These Arms," and "Traveler's Lantern" each have their own distinctive sound, but all these songs have one thing in common: excellence.Free Music Review: A Search through an Artist's Soul
Hit: 5 Stars
Dwight Yoakam has been called a very private person when not performing; but when you listen to his music, particularly music as compelling and introspective as what is found in "A Long Way Home," it becomes painfully obvious that he bares his heart and soul, repeatedly, in every song he writes. The searing pain in his music and lyrics--and not the angst-ridden pseudo-soul of teen death ballads or beat-the-puppy country--reaches down one's throat to grip the heart and pull it, bleeding, to the air with a raw intensity that very few writers/performers achieve. Dwight Yoakam doesn't appeal to everyone because some people don't understand that--but if you open your ears, and listen with your whole soul, "you might find yourself somewhere." Doesn't matter if you consider him country, alternative country, rock, soul, or what--he is Dwight, and this is him.Free Music Review: An Outstanding Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Typical Dwight....brilliant. This album doesn't have the popularity of "This Time" or "Guitars, Cadillacs, etc..." which is a real shame. This album is nothing but pure traditional country music with a little rockabilly thrown in for good measure. Persoanlly, I find the best tracks to be "Same Fool" (return to Bakersfield sound for the staring number), "Things Change" (this one sounds like it belongs on "This Time"), "These Arms" (Perhaps the best track", and of course, "Traveler's Lantern" (absolutely stupendous Kentucky Bluegrass). Dwight has a habit of throwing the occasional curve ball, and he closes out this album with a bravado-filled remake of "Only Want You More" titled "Maybe you Like it, Maybe you Dont". Always good to hear an artist having fun.....especially one who has consistently put out the finest Country Music in decades. You owe it to yourself to buy this one.