Dwight Yoakam - Dwight Sings Buck (Dig)
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Artist: Dwight YoakamBrand: Baker & Taylor
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Music Label: New West Records
Soundtracks:
- My Heart Skips a Beat
- Foolin' Around
- I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me)
- Only You
- Act Naturally
- Down On the Corner Of Love
- Cryin' Time
- Above And Beyond
- Love's Gonna Live Here
- Close Up the Honky Tonks
- Under Your Spell Again
- Your Tender Loving Care
- Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)
- Think Of Me
- Together Again
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Free Music Review: After Twenty Years Dwight Is Still Buckin' Em
Hit: 5 Stars
In the mid-80's three artists emerged as the most talked about representatives of the "New Traditional" school in country music. Playing songs by the likes, or in the styles, of Buck Owens, Lefty Frizzell, Ernest Tubb, Webb Pierce, and Johnny Horton, the music of Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, and Randy Travis harked back to the "honky tonk" records that had their heyday from the late '40's to the early '60's. With a stripped down sound of that favored up-front pedal steel and raw vocals over the strings and choral backgrounds that had infected the producer-dominated "Nashville" sound (which always has one eye on the pop-crossover market), they were a breath of fresh air.
Well, it's twenty years later. Steve Earle has followed his own muse, now mixing equal parts country, rock, and a populist socialism that countinues to excite and inspire. Randy Travis pretty much succumbed to the temptation to dilute the "country" sound in favor of greater commercial appeal. And "Country Music" in general has continued to follow its commercial instincts, producing 100 interchangable "Hats" for every artist who sounds like he or she might have heard a country record made before 1962.
Then there is Dwight. He has remained remarkably true to the honky-tonk roots sound that characterized his music from his first major label release "Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc". Uncompromsing recordings of consistent quality and equally consistent unpopularity with "country" radio station owners have been the hallmarks of his two-decade career.
"Dwight Sings Buck" is another in a long line of excellent recordings by Dwight Yoakam. It is a fine and fitting tribute to the great Buck Owens (whom Yoakam coaxed out of a long retirement in the early '90's). Digging into the music of his hero, Yoakam does the late master proud, and proudly. His choice of material out of the Owens catalog is on target. Frankly, "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line," much like "Made in Japan," is an Owens song that to my mind has not stood the test of time, either as social commentary or musically.
So is "Dwight Sings Buck" just "another Dwight Yoakam record"? In many ways, yes. But it is also a great Dwight Yoakam record. Buck must be grinnin' from ear to ear.
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1. My Heart Skips a Beat 2. Foolin' Around 3. I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me) 4. Only You 5. Act Naturally 6. Down On the Corner Of Love 7. Cryin' Time 8. Above And Beyond 9. Love's Gonna Live Here 10. Close Up the Honky Tonks 11. Under Your Spell Again 12. Your Tender Loving Care 13. Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache) 14. Think Of Me 15. Together AgainOf course, you're thinking, when did Dwight not sing Buck? A fine question, since Yoakam built much of his vocal style around that of the late Bakersfield master, and recorded with him on occasion, the two even collaborating on Owens's own work ("Streets of Bakersfield"). So while this collection of Owens covers seems like a project Yoakam should have tackled in the '90s, it took Owens's 2006 death to spur his acolyte to action. Dwight Sings Buck moves briskly for 15 tracks, since 10 of them run under three minutes--in keeping with the length of singles in Buck's heyday of the '60s--though several of Owens's most notable No. 1s are conspicuously absent ("I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line"). Yoakam, who also produced the album, keeps the production shiny, punchy, and faithful to the golden age of honky-tonk (prominent percussion, weepy pedal steel, and jittery, stuttering electric guitars), and to some extent he replicates Don Rich's use of the guitar as a partner to the lead vocal. Yet at times, Yoakam almost comically attempts to duplicate Owens's elongated and dippy vowels ("I Don't Care"), while he also brings a new interpretation to "Together Again," deviating from the strictness of the melody and letting the instrumental ending play out for roughly 90 seconds. Then there is the odd track or two ("Above and Beyond," "Down on the Corner of Love") where Yoakam inserts inflections of another of his heroes, Elvis Presley, to nearly morph the Bakersfield Boss into the Memphis Flash. If several tracks also seem too studied in their smartness, and "Only You," with its funeral-parlor organ, features an excruciatingly tortured vocal, Yoakam finds his best moments when he just, well, acts naturally, as his old pal might say. "Close Up the Honky Tonks," the most compelling performance here, proves that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but inspiration proves the sweetest gift of all. --Alanna Nash
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