Dwight Yoakam

The Nine Best Concerts In Dallas This Weekend, March 14-17

Although it may appear that many of your friends are at South by Southwest this weekend, battling crowds and struggling to find solutions to basic things like parking, eating and peeing, there is still much fun to be had on your own turf this weekend. This spring weather is a breeding ground for tou ... More >>

Mike and the Moonpies Talk Gary Stewart, Alan Jackson and Uniting Cowboys and Hipsters

It's a Tuesday night at Austin's Horseshoe Lounge and two members of the band Mike and the Moonpies are here to do an interview. Frontman Mike Harmeier is wearing snakeskin boots and a Dwight Yoakam trucker cap. Lead guitarist Catlin Rutherford vaguely resembles Chris Hillman when he wears a mustach ... More >>

Shelby Lynne at the Kessler and the Best of Your Weekend

Shelby Lynne​It's kind of hard to look the other way when you see that Shelby Lynne's coming to Dallas, and the Kessler Theater of all venues. Should be a great, intimate place to catch a handful of the country star's hits.That's just the start.We already mentioned Daniel Hart at El Sibil on Satur ... More >>

New Year's Eve Spectacular With The Polyphonic Spree, and a Very Dense List of Show Announcements

​The Polyphonic Spree certainly loves the holidays. It makes sense, seeing as they're the most joyful band on the planet. And only three weeks after they throw their annual Holiday Extravaganza at Lakewood Theater, they're throwing a New Year's Eve bash at House Of Blues on December 31. Which show ... More >>

Pete Anderson: "We [Dwight Yoakam and I] Were Americana Before There Was Americana"

If known only for his guitar playing and production work with Dwight Yoakam, singer/songwriter Pete Anderson would still be a legend in both the country and alt-country genres. There is much more to Pete Anderson than the stellar licks on such Yoakam hits as "Guitar, Cadillacs" and "Streets of B ... More >>

Listomania: The 15 Most Unexpected, Unlikely, and Downright Awkward Collaborations of All Time

Beck​Yesterday Beck announced that he had been "recording some tracks" with country singer Dwight Yoakam. And yeah, we guess we could kind of see that, as Beck has run the gamut of styles during his career, touching on hip-hop, electronic, folk, and mariachi. But, even though it makes sense when ... More >>

The King of Country Music Videos: The Five Most Quintessential Dwight Yoakam Clips

Dwight Yoakam​Dwight David Yoakam, the modern savior of the Bakersfield-style of electric country music, is actually a native of Kentucky and he's now been a staple of Hollywood productions for years. Such a quizzical mélange makes sense, really. Give a listen to the way in which Yoakam has blen ... More >>

My First Show: Red Animal War and The Light Fantastic's Matt Pittman Was Left Disappointed by The Ramones at Lollapalooza '96.

Welcome to My First Show, where we give bands a chance to talk about the first shows they ever attended -- no matter how uncool and embarrassing those tales may be. Matt Pittman​Matt Pittman is a busy man as of late. When not working on new material for the (thankfully) still-active Red Animal W ... More >>

New Riders of the Purple Sage

Friday, December 10, at Dan's Silverleaf in Denton

Good Friday: Halloween Weekend Edition

A Baptist General headlines We Shot JR is Dead​This weekend marks the end of an era: After a five-year run, the most critical critics in North Texas over at We Shot JR are calling it quits. We suspect it's only a matter of days until the comments on DC9 increase in anonymity and negativity, but, b ... More >>

Gig Alert: Rosie Flores Tonight at Double Wide

Rosie Flores​San Antonio's Rosie Flores makes a stop in our fair city this evening, bringing her brand of hardcore honky-tonk and rockabilly to the Double Wide. She's been a fixture of the South Texas scene for decades, earning accolades in whatever city she decided to call home--hell, even the ma ... More >>

He's The One

Show Announcements: Dwight Yoakam Coming To Mesquite In February And More

Jason Wolter​Nothing goes together quite like country music and rodeo action. So with Dwight Yoakam coming to North Texas in February, what better place to perform than the Resistol Arena, home to the Mesquite Rodeo?The country legend hasn't released anything since 2007's tribute to Buck Owens, bu ... More >>

Eastwood

Everything's Personal (Self-released)

Talk to Me

Ferguson to cause swooning at Bass Hall

The Domino Kings

Saturday, October 13, at the AllGood Cafe

Rhinestone Cowboy

Manuel visits Fort Worth

Honky-Tonk Men

Drink from Eleven Hundred Springs

King Cone

Thursday, December 21, at Poor David's Pub

Festivus for the Rest of Us

No need for ACL--there was plenty to see within Dallas city limits

Hokum or Yoakam?

How the Kentucky kid's pulled off a crazy little thing called a career

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Curt Kirkwood

Snow (Little Dog)

Best Radio Station

KHYI-FM (95.3), The Range

Strung Up

CMH Records is having a classical gas with every band, like, ever

Dwight Yoakam|Lucero

September 20|September 24

Dwight Yoakam

Population Me (Electrodisc/Audium)

Slight Club

Stuck in the Panic Room, Fincher takes us to a most familiar place

Prose and Conjunto

A new book finds the squeeze-box heart of Texas-Mexican music

Say It, Don't Sing It

IFC's new documentary, Crossover

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

They Got Music

Why does karaoke still exist?

Dwight Yoakam

I'magonnagetmesum

The grass is blue

Writing hits for the Dixie Chicks has given Jim Lauderdale his own wide open space

Wide open spaces

With his debut record, Ed Burleson may be too country for Nashville, but not for Texas

Drink up

Better off dead? The Minus Man thinks so.

Dwight Yoakam, Willie Nelson

Out There

Night & Day

April 23 - 29, 1998

Deck the malls

This season's Christmas album offerings

East Side soul music

The Blazers return with a record Just for You--and, hopefully, many others

Power lines

Jimmy Webb wrote one of the greatest songs ever, but don't tell him that

Roadshows

Hat's off

Dwight Yoakam's the last great country singer left--and he doesn't need a twang to prove it

No retreat

After the setback of the Cartwrights, Donny Ray Ford gets a taste of success

Black Maria, Don't You Cry

Mary Cutrufello's music is full of country heartache. But Texas' most unlikely honky-tonk star is about to become her own boss.

A deep cut

Thornton's haunting, droll Sling Blade draws rich blood

Who gives a Hootie?

Farewell to 1995, a year in music we'd rather forget

Far from Gone

Dwight Yoakam's latest conjures up echoes of '60s AM radio

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