Music CD - Dwight Yoakam: The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam

	Music CD: The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam Artist: Dwight Yoakam List Price: $18.98 Our Price: $11.66 Your Save: $ 7.32 ( 39% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Tracks: 1. Honky Tonk Man 2. Guitars, Cadillacs 3. Little Sister 4. Little Ways 5. Please, Please Baby 6. Streets Of Bakersfield - Buck Owens 7. I Sang Dixie 8. Long White Cadillac 9. Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose 10. You're The One 11. Suspicious Minds 12. It Only Hurts When I Cry 13. Ain't That Lonely Yet 14. A Thousand Miles From Nowhere 15. Fast As You 16. Crazy Little Thing Called Love 17. I Want You To Want Me 18. Things Change 19. The Late Great Golden State 20. The Back Of Your Hand
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0081227896423 Label: Rhino / Wea Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Rhino / Wea Release Date: 2004-07-27 Studio: Rhino / Wea
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: A Great Introduction to Dwight Comment: It's difficult to choose just 20 "best" Dwight songs, although I think this CD does an admirable job. It's a pretty broad overview of his career until 2003, and it is the CD that caused me to start digging Dwight. I had always preferred rock music to country, but that was until I heard Dwight. He covers some Elvis, Queen and Cheap Trick on here in his own inimitable style. Plus his own songs have a lot of rock aesthetic in them, such as "Guitars, Cadillacs" and "Fast As You." There are some true "country" gems as well, like "Honky Tonk Man" and "Streets of Bakersfield" (with Buck Owens, whom everybody loves!!). Beautiful ballads as well, e.g. "I Sang Dixie" and "You're The One." Overall, a really nice compilation and I heartily recommend it, especially as an introduction to Dwight's music. It does have my favorite Dwight song, "It Only Hurts When I Cry," which he co-wrote with the late, great Roger Miller. That said, it's still missing some other must-hear songs like "Miner's Prayer," "Fair to Midland" and "A Place to Cry." Customer Rating: Summary: The perfect set Comment: This really is the Very Best of Dwight Yoakam. I'd have picked almost exactly the same 20 songs if I had to pick 20, these really are the best of the best and not a weak (or even average) one in the lot. These songs are the reason Dwight is in my top 10 favorite artists of all time along with Lyle Lovett, Lucinda Williams, Robert Earl Keen, Jim Croce, and others. If you are interesting in buying your first Dwight CD, this is absolutely positively the best possible way to start. If you just want a great collection from his other albums, again it's great. Can't lose. Customer Rating: Summary: Great for traffic Comment: It was a nice mixture of songs. Dwight's singing has certainly made my commute to and from work more entertaining. Customer Rating: Summary: The Very Best of Dwight Yoakum Comment: Dwight Yoakum's voice is soulful in sexy sultry waves over the listener. Customer Rating: Summary: Also a gift Comment: This was a gif tfor my Sister. I have not heard any complaints as to the quality of the CD as of yet. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Moving to Los Angeles after an unproductive stint in Nashville, Kentucky-born Dwight Yoakam made a name for himself by reviving the more robust honky-tonk traditions of the Bakersfield Sound--a bold contrast with Music City's assembly-line approach. In 1984, his independently released six-song EP, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., added to the buzz and helped land him on Warner Bros./Reprise. Now, twenty years later comes The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam, a superb single-disc distillation of the four-CD box, Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years. With 20 tracks spanning his recording career and sequenced in chronological order, the set rolls along with gusto and verve. While not covering every one of his releases (the Christmas and covers releases are omitted, for example), there are some singles and soundtrack entries that fall nicely into place. --David Greenberger