Biography of Dwight Yoakam
His highly successful debut album, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., a re-packaging (with four new cuts) of a 1984 Oak album, showed the listening public that somebody different had arrived. Outspoken and self-assured, Yoakam mixes country oldies ("Ring of Fire" and a reprise of Johnny Horton's "Honky Tonk Man," his first Top Ten single) with his own country/rock and hard-country compositions. Platinums and golds and numerous chart-toppers later, he's still marching to his own drum while paying respect to his heroes along the way. He and Buck Owens collaborated on "Streets of Bakersfield," a song that gives you an accurate sense of what Dwight Yoakam's all about. ~ David Vinopal