Music CD - Dwight Yoakam: Dwight Sings Buck

	Music CD: Dwight Sings Buck Artist: Dwight Yoakam List Price: $16.98 Our Price: $9.72 Your Save: $ 7.26 ( 43% ) Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Manufacturer: New West Records
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Tracks: 1. My Heart Skips a Beat 2. Foolin' Around 3. I Don't Care (Just As Long As You Love Me) 4. Only You 5. Act Naturally 6. Down On the Corner Of Love 7. Cryin' Time 8. Above And Beyond 9. Love's Gonna Live Here 10. Close Up the Honky Tonks 11. Under Your Spell Again 12. Your Tender Loving Care 13. Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache) 14. Think Of Me 15. Together Again
Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0607396612925 Label: New West Records Manufacturer: New West Records Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: New West Records Release Date: 2007-10-23 Studio: New West Records
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Don't waste your money or your time Comment: I truly enjoy Buck Owens and Dwight Yoakam, and the songs I've heard them sing together. However - this has got to be the worst CD I have ever heard. I don't know how it even got to the shelves! Customer Rating: Summary: Dwight Does Buck Best Comment: Now we can enjoy the fine memorable music of Buck Owens all over again. While easily recognizable and in fact, you'll sing along, Dwight gives his own arrangement spin on each. No bad tracks. Some will become all time favorites again I'm sure. Buy for every country fan you know. Customer Rating: Summary: Dwight sings Buck Comment: The great Dwight sings songs from the great Buck: The result can only be perfect... Customer Rating: Summary: Good intentions, forgettable results Comment: The thing I like most about this cd is the liner notes and photographs. They're clearly done with love and respect for Buck and it comes through very clearly. I saw Dwight perform not long after Buck's passing. The performances I heard then were heartfelt and emotional. Unfortunately, the recordings found here haven't had me coming back to listen over and over and over again, like I usually do with everything Dwight releases. My biggest qualm is how too much Dwight attempts to infuse these classics with his own style. Usually you'd say that's EXACTLY what you'd want; I would too - but a little too often, the end results left me thinking "blah". Those songs I heard him play in concert had more soul and feeling than the versions found on this album. It's not a good sign, when you're hearing Buck's original arrangements instead of being carried away with those chosen by Dwight. It's quality work, but in this case, it's just a case of tinkering too much with a good thing. Customer Rating: Summary: Dwight at His Best Comment: If you're a Dwight Yoakam fan or a wannabee Buckaroo, you'll enjoy this CD. Dwight truly does justice to these classics from Buck Owens. You can almost taste the Bakersfield dust in your throat as Dwight stays true to the original feel and intent of Buck's songs. If you're enough of a fan to know that there was a lot more to Buck Owens than "Hee Haw" then you're sure to appreciate this excellent tribute to him. More Reviews
Editorial Reviews: Of course, you're thinking, when did Dwight not sing Buck? A fine question, since Yoakam built much of his vocal style around that of the late Bakersfield master, and recorded with him on occasion, the two even collaborating on Owens's own work ("Streets of Bakersfield"). So while this collection of Owens covers seems like a project Yoakam should have tackled in the '90s, it took Owens's 2006 death to spur his acolyte to action. Dwight Sings Buck moves briskly for 15 tracks, since 10 of them run under three minutes--in keeping with the length of singles in Buck's heyday of the '60s--though several of Owens's most notable No. 1s are conspicuously absent ("I've Got a Tiger by the Tail," "Waitin' in Your Welfare Line"). Yoakam, who also produced the album, keeps the production shiny, punchy, and faithful to the golden age of honky-tonk (prominent percussion, weepy pedal steel, and jittery, stuttering electric guitars), and to some extent he replicates Don Rich's use of the guitar as a partner to the lead vocal. Yet at times, Yoakam almost comically attempts to duplicate Owens's elongated and dippy vowels ("I Don't Care"), while he also brings a new interpretation to "Together Again," deviating from the strictness of the melody and letting the instrumental ending play out for roughly 90 seconds. Then there is the odd track or two ("Above and Beyond," "Down on the Corner of Love") where Yoakam inserts inflections of another of his heroes, Elvis Presley, to nearly morph the Bakersfield Boss into the Memphis Flash. If several tracks also seem too studied in their smartness, and "Only You," with its funeral-parlor organ, features an excruciatingly tortured vocal, Yoakam finds his best moments when he just, well, acts naturally, as his old pal might say. "Close Up the Honky Tonks," the most compelling performance here, proves that imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery, but inspiration proves the sweetest gift of all. --Alanna Nash