Dwight Yoakam
Dwight Yoakam
Dwight David Yoakamis an American singer-songwriter, actor, and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty one albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth23 October 1956
CityPikeville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
Fortunately any of the songs we've recorded can be extremely fulfilling to perform depending on the variety of circumstances that surround any given show.
Only beginning to present itself over the horizon.
She truly is one of the legendary icons behind the scenes of country music. She didn't take the curtain calls, but a lot of us would never have heard Flatt & Scruggs if it hadn't been for Louise Scruggs.
As an artist, you have to maintain focus and eliminate the distraction of second-guessing yourself based on the opinions of others.
A voice expressing emotion in a musical way moves on. It's like the finale of the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - the world turns in on itself, as a universe unto itself, in the shape of one human being.
I originally developed the Chicken Fries for my fans. They have been so popular we made Buffalo Bites to add to the excitement.
I'd rather be in some dark holler where the sun don't ever shine, than to be alone just knowin' that you're gone as I slowly lose my mind. So blow your whistle freight train, take me far on down the track. I'm goin' away, I'm leavin' today. I'm goin' and I ain't comin back.
They're both very fragmented. You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance.
They're both very fragmented, ... You'll start out with a master take, the whole band plays it, and then we start doing coverage of each instrument, and it's very similar to filmmaking in terms of the process, time involved and the repetition of performance.
When I was in junior high, a foreign-history teacher started a theater class. So I got my feet wet there and through high school, so I was very fascinated with acting as a means of expression.
'm really proud of it. To me, it's a movie about character behavior and the pecking order of the pack, as well as the central character's massive survival guilt.
It became a metaphor for the lives of the people in this film and for the Old West, for the abandonment that occurred in the early part of the 20th century.