Dwight Yoakam - This Time
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Free Music Notes for This Time
Free Music Review: His best album......and that's saying a lot.
Hit: 5 Stars
Probably the number one reason that I love Dwight Yoakam is best contained in this album: he's very reminiscent of older, great country artists that played REAL country music such as Buck Owens, Johnny Cash, and Merle Haggard. In a modern country music world of CMT cookie cutter, top 40 pop music wannabes, DY has struck his own unique path.As great as *If There Was a Way* and *Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.* are, *This Time* has them all beat. This is simply the best collection of songs by DY on any one album. There's a little bit of everything here and nearly all of it is great songwriting.
"Pocket of a Clown" was a big country radio smash and is good but is not one of the gems of the album. I agree with another reviewer that "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" is not only a great song, but was indeed a fitting ending to the excellent film Red Rock West. As the credits roll, the song is a perfect summing up of the main character's situation. "Home for Sale" is another slowed down song about lost love. The title song is a classic honky-tonker very reminiscent of classic Buck Owens. One of my very favorite songs here is "Two Doors Down". Perhaps there's nothing happy about it, but the feeling that comes through seems genuine. "Ain't That Lonely Yet" is another excellent song that probably sums up a lot of broken relationships. "King of Fools" is good stuff as well and "Fast as You" may be the "rockinest" song on the disc. "Lonesome Roads" is a very fitting ending to the album and always reminds me of something Merle Haggard might have played.
In short, DY has it all going on. The man is simply a great musician with a great voice and he writes and plays songs that actually mean something. What else could one ask for?
Free Music Review: One of Dwight's Greatest Albums
Hit: 5 Stars
Dwight Yoakam has a voice and style that are drenched with his own unique originality. As far as his music goes, I'm convinced the man can do no wrong. When "This Time" was released back in 1993, Dwight was at the height of his commercial success... and he was able to achieve that success without any loss of identity or originality. Every track is a winner and the songwriting and overall quality of this album is superb.
This CD yielded three of the biggest hits of Yoakam's career: the heartbreaking "Ain't That Lonely Yet", the ethereal "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere", and the downright rockin' "Fast as You." As great as these songs are, there are other tracks found on this album that are just as good (if not better.) Other favorites here include "Home for Sale" & "Two Doors Down", two slow songs that are sure to break your heart with the delicacy of Dwight's vocals and the well-written lyrics. Also worth mentioning are "Pocket of a Clown", a bouncy psychobilly tune with great background vocals, "Lonesome Roads", which showcases some of the most self-depreciating lyrics Yoakam ever penned, and the title track "This Time", which adds a nice Bakersfield touch to the album.
With all that's great on "This Time", one might expect to find an inevitable weak point where it falters below expectations. However, I can say with total confidence that not even the most picky of critics can find a fault here. The songwriting, the vocals, and the arrangements are all amazing and have a great deal of variety among them. This album just proves that Mr. Yoakam always radiates his impeccable genius, regardless of Nashville's trends and tastes.
Free Music Review: Rockin' Good Psycho-Billy Music
Hit: 5 Stars
Dwight Yoakam never compromises who he is. But he is also never afraid to remake himself.For me this was a watershed Dwight album. This is the time in the career of Yoakam when he really began to cross over. I can remember seeing his, "Thousand Miles From Nowhere" video on MTV during this time. Pretty Surrealistic!
Something about Dwight just crosses the line and appeals to a diverse group of music fans. You wouldn't think that non-country fans would like someone with the style Dwight has they do!
This album is more Rolling Stones than George Jones. But it is still true to it's country roots.
The album is loaded with great songs...
"This Time" is a honky tonker with the Bakersfield sound. The Floyd Crameresque piano is especially nice. The mind bending guitar riffs also add character to the song.
I always laughed at the psycho-billy tune, "Pocket of a Clown."
I like the way Dwight looks at the world in a very slanted way.
The radio hit, "Ain't that Lonely Yet" is very interesting when you listen to it in the light of the failed Dwight/Sharon Stone relationship.
"Fast as You" is the song I think of the most when I make the Rolling Stones reference. The driving guitars and wailing keyboards give it a rock and roll feel. You can't help but tap those toes when you listen to it.
"Wild Ride" is yet another rocker... This album has it all.
"Two Doors Down" has that classic country sad song feel.
Dwight truly put a diverse album together. It is one of my favorites!
Free Music Review: TIME IS ON HIS SIDE
Hit: 5 Stars
Cocky, egotistical, narcissistic, I always thought this Bakersfield Cowboy was a breed above your contemporary counytrypolitan yodelers. And this time, country's true outlaw offers a song selection that hits harder than a bullet on a gold pocket watch. Yoakam vocals sparkle brighter that rhinestone and the complement of a band playing tight as a new pair of blue jeans. This album contains the double-barrel fire of two instant classics: Dwight's self-penned A THOSAND MILES FROM NOWHERE, features echoed vocals and heart pounding drum breaks, and gets an extra tin star for regular spins on a local alternative FM station. AIN'T THAT LONELY YET weaves a plaintive web of deceit and betrayal. Dwight corralled the songwriting duo of up-and-comer, James House and Yoakam-colaborator, the mysterious maverick "Kostas". While those two bullets find the mark, just a notch below is a whole six-shooter full of pistol poppin' ditties. I love the traditional country balladry on Home For Sale, with its gospel organ and the way Dwight's singing, like an old clock, simply come to a full stop, then segues into the nifty guitar of the stompin' title cut. In King of Fools, listen for the walking bass line, honky tonk piano and waltzing fiddles. Pocket of a Clown, Two Doors Down, a quarter-century ago, these songs would have felt as comfortable as snake skin cowboy boots, on a George Jones LP. Like good songs and good boots, Yoakam fit just right, this time and any time. THIS TIME Kick the crap out Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
Free Music Review: Dwight is the Real Thing
Hit: 5 Stars
I have listened to and collected recordings for 40 years, and currently have over 3,000 cd's,lp's, and tapes. I love all kinds of music,and grew up loving the music of George Jones, Ray Price, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and others. IMHO, Dwight is the finest country artist/singer/songwriter on the scene today. Of course, he's got the honky-tonk sound down to a science. But,
as other reviewers point out, he covers an amazing range of traditional styles: rockabilly, "old fashioned", Flatt & Scruggs-
style (Down the Road), Ballads, and even R&B (If There was a Way). His cover of Queen's (Freddie Mercury, Brian May), "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is as rocking as the original. I will offer another humble opinion that "The Heart that You Own" is the greatest country song written in the past thirty years, and possibly second only to "Mr. Fool", recorded by George Jones in the 50's. Guitarist/Producer Pete Anderson is also one of the finest string-bending, chicken-picking, volume-swelling, steel-imitating Telecaster players around, along the lines of Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan.
"This Time" is as fine a recording as any of his others--very fresh and energetic. If you really love any kind of country/rockabilly/honky-tonk/shuffle-type of music, you can't get any better than Yoakam, Anderson & Co.