Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam is a Kentucky-born, Ohio-raised country singer-songwriter who emerged from the Los Angeles roots scene in the mid-1980s and became the defining figure of the neo-traditionalist Bakersfield-sound revival, restoring hard honky-tonk to the country mainstream. He has built a parallel career as a film actor.
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- Born October 23, 1956, in Pikeville, Kentucky, and raised in Columbus, Ohio.
- Debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (1986, Reprise) announced his hard honky-tonk revival.
- Scored back-to-back #1 country hits with “Streets of Bakersfield,” a duet with Buck Owens (#1 October 1988), and “I Sang Dixie” (#1 February 1989).
- Won the Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance for “Ain't That Lonely Yet” in 1994.
- Won a second Grammy in 1999 for the multi-artist “Same Old Train.”
- Worked for nearly two decades with producer, guitarist, and bandleader Pete Anderson, the architect of his recorded sound.
- Released the all-acoustic dwightyoakamacoustic.net (2000, Reprise), re-cutting 25 of his own songs solo.
- Has a substantial film career, with roles in Sling Blade, Panic Room, and Wedding Crashers.
