Dwight Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actor, and film director best known for pioneering a new wave of honky tonk country music in the 1980s. He is credited with helping to revive country music at a time when it was becoming diluted by crossover influences. Born in Pikeville, Kentucky, Yoakam began Dwight Yoakam music career performing in small bars while attending college in southern California. His first album Guitars, Cadillacs, and Hillbilly Music was released by Warner Bros. Records in 1986 and went on to become one of the best-selling albums of the decade. The success of this debut album led to a series of follow-up Dwight Yoakam albums that yielded several number-one hits such as "Guitars, Cadillacs," "Honky Tonk Man," "Streets Of Bakersfield," and many more. Yoakam has continued to be a chart-topping artist throughout his long career, releasing over 20 studio albums including Gone Under Buzzin' (1994), Last Chance for A Thousand Years (1999), and 3 Pears (2012).
He has toured extensively throughout his career and has headlined festivals such as Farm Aid and Lollapalooza before embarking on his own sold-out tours across the United States and Canada. Beyond his success as a musician Dwight Yoakam has also achieved acclaim as an actor appearing in films like Dwight Yoakam Sling Blade (1996), Panic Room (2002) Crank: High Voltage (2009) as well as Dwight Yoakam live shows such as The Simpsons and Wilfred. In addition, he served as executive producer for two documentaries South Of Heaven which chronicles the rise of the Southern rock scene, and the Waco Brothers Documentary which traces their influence on punk rock through interviews with members of bands like The Replacements and Soul Asylum. Yoakam's influence is vast having been cited by everyone from Tom Petty to Merle Haggard to Chris Stapleton. With decades in the industry, he still remains current releasing new material consistently with his latest single being “Diamonds & Daughters” from 2017's LP Swimmin' pools Movies & Steel Guitar Raised On Robbery EP released last year. Dwight Yoakam continues to tour worldwide making appearances everywhere from Los Angeles To London England.
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