Dwight Yoakam has country music cred. The pioneering artist spent his first year of life in a coal company house way up in the small southeastern Kentucky holler of Betsey Layne, just across the ...

Dwight Yoakam's "Waterfall" is a bizarre and beguiling song unlike any other in the honky-tonk songbook he's put together during the past 30 years. It's sprawling, surreal and a little silly, ...

The first time I saw Dwight Yoakam was one of the half-dozen or so musical experiences that changed my life. It was surprisingly like the first time I saw the Clash, or the best times I saw Joe Ely or ...

A Kentucky native who cut his teeth as a honky-tonk musician in California, Dwight Yoakam has seemed like an odd man out for the entirety of his 30-plus year career. To listen to the songs Dwight ...

Dwight Yoakam and his wife, Emily Joyce, have welcomed their first child. The 63-year-old country star and his 36-year-old wife of five months welcomed a baby boy named Dalton Loren on Sunday (Aug. 16 ...

Dwight Yoakam, the pride of Pikeville who returned to Kentucky and the stage at the Railbird Festival on Sunday, ended his show early, to the disappointment and concern of fans. Those who stood in the ...

The country musician will release a new album, “Brighter Days,” on Nov. 15 It’s his first album of new music in nine years Yoakam collaborated with Post Malone on the album’s lead single, “I Don’t ...

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Country music icon Dwight Yoakam is paying tribute to his tourmate Raul Malo after The Mavericks frontman revealed that his cancer battle has taken a serious turn. On October 7, Yoakam took to ...

Dwight Yoakam and the Mavericks were at Detroit’s Masonic Temple Theatre for a good time AND a long time on Thursday night, Oct. 3 — the latter perhaps to a fault. Besides what can only be described ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular ...