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 Dwight Yoakam's Profile |
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| Country: |  United States |
| Last Login: | May 18, 2008 (554 days back) |
About Me |
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About DwightKentucky native DWIGHT YOAKAM blazed out of the Los Angeles club scene in 1986 with his debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., which went on to score double-platinum status. Vote At CMT TodayThis was followed by such million-sellers as Hillbilly Deluxe (1987,) Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (1988,) Just Lookin’ For A Hit (1989,) If There Was A Way (1990) and the triple-platinum milestone This Time (1993) featuring the Grammy-winning single “Ain’t That Lonely Yet” and his signature hit “Fast As You.” Dwight followed with Dwight Live (1995), Gone (1996), Under The Covers (1997), Come On Christmas (1997), A Long Way Home (1998) and Last Chance For A Thousand Years (1999). Dwight’s version of the Queen classic “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” debuted during the 1999 Academy Awards telecast in a national ad campaign for Gap clothing stores and went on to become another Top-Ten hit.The two-time Grammy winner has garnered 21 nominations in the course of his career, while selling more than 23 million albums worldwide and earning praise from the likes of Time magazine, hailing him as “A Renaissance Man,” Rolling Stone, noting “he has no contemporary peer,” and Vanity Fair, claiming “Yoakam strides the divide between rock’s lust and country’s lament.” Yoakam’s acting career has also garnered much acclaim, particularly for his role as Doyle Hargraves in the 1996 Oscar-winning “Sling Blade,” for which he was honored with the Premiere Performance Award recognizing outstanding breakthrough performances in film. Following that, Dwight made his directorial debut (starring in a screenplay he also authored) with the 2001 release of “South Of Heaven, West Of Hell,” a gothic western with an impressive ensemble cast that included Billy Bob Thornton, Vince Vaughn, Bridget Fonda, Peter Fonda, Paul Reubens, Bud Cort and Michael Jeter. Other film credits include a scene-stealing 1994 debut in John Dahl’s “Red Rock West” (with Nicolas Cage and Dennis Hopper), “The Newton Boys” in 1998 (with Matthew McConaughey, Julianna Marguiles and Vincent D’Onofrio,) “The Minus Man” in 1999 (with Owen Wilson and Janeane Garafolo,) the 2002 blockbuster suspense film “Panic Room” (with Jodie Foster and Forest Whitaker) and the 2003 action-comedy “Hollywood Homicide” (with Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett.) On March 25, 2006, when Dwight Yoakam got the awful news that his close friend Buck Owens had passed away, it was a shock. Only four days earlier, the honky-tonk compadres had spent four hours on the phone catching up while Yoakam was amid a 17-month world tour. “Buck was just full of life,” Yoakam remembers. “We’d known each other since 1987, and somebody had asked him about me, and he said, ‘People think we have dinner together every night.’ And I said, ‘I know, they act like we’re just down the block from one another,’ and he said, ‘Well, it always will be like that, Dwight.’ Ours was a friendship that was a combination of parent, sibling and peer...” By the fall of ‘06, he and his label New West Records agreed that Yoakam’s next album would honor the architect of the Bakersfield Sound. Dwight Sings Buck reprises and re-imagines fifteen of Buck Owens’ greatest, including 11 top five hits, eight of which reached 1 on the country charts, spanning 1956 to 1967, with stunning results.
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Music:Member Since: 7/31/2007Band Website: dwightyoakam.com | route23club.com Band Members: Sounds Like:
Record Label: New West Records Type of Label: Indie |
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My Background and Lifestyle |
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| Occupation: | Music Artist (Country) |
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New Concert Dates And New Benefits at Route23 Club! |
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| Hi Everybody!! Just in case you haven't seen - we've added 7 new concert dates to Dwight's schedule for this year including Fan Faire (CMA Fest) in Nashville, and concerts near San Diego, Los A... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Sun, 04 May 2008 03:02:00 PST |
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Vote For Dwight on CMT’s Pure Countdown!!! |
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| Hi everyone, we’ve got a shot at breaking a huge record at CMT!! Dwight’s video for Close Up The Honky Tonks has been the 1 video for 13 weeks... If we can keep there for 5 mor... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST |
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Dwight Is GACs Artist Of The Month!! |
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| Hey everyone... Just wanted to kick off February and let you know that Dwight is GAC's Artist of the month for February.... So, make sure you go on over to GAC and check out his artist page - and sta... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:51:00 PST |
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Newsletter for January |
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| January 20, 2008
Well... Happy New Year!From all of us here at the Route 23 Club and Dwight, we're hoping you and yours had a wonderful holiday season. As you might expect, we were busy here during th... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:13:00 PST |
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New Songs Are Up!! |
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| Well - as you might expect, it took us a while to bring down the Christmas ornaments - but we finally got 'round to it.
We put up a couple of the older songs due to popular demand... Hope you l... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:08:00 PST |
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Merry Christmas With A Couple of Songs!! |
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| Hi mySpacers...We've added two songs to the list to celebrate christmas.... Hope you enjoy... And Merry Christmas Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:40:00 PST |
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Get Dwight On GAC’s Top 50 For The Year!! |
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| Get Dwight to 1 on the GAC Top 50 Videos of 2007Between now and Friday, Dec. 7 fans can vote for Close Up The Honky Tonksby visiting this link:http://www.gactv.com/gac/pac_ctnt/text/0,,GAC_26058_539
... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:20:00 PST |
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November Newsletter |
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| Hope You And Yours Are Ready For A Great Turkey Day!!This is our first Newsletter to communicate out to all of Dwight's Friends - and we'll be sending it out monthly - just to let you know what's goin... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:58:00 PST |
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We’ve launched the Dwight FaceBook Page |
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| If any of you mySpacers are also Facebook members, be sure to become friends of Facebook Profile. You can see his profile here.Facebook has also just launched what they call their facebook pages... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 07:23:00 PST |
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MySpace Contest For Route23 Club Members!! |
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| Hey Everyone - we're excited to announce two contests for November for members of the Route 23 Club!!
The first contest is to win a copy of the new Dwight Sings Buck album, signed personally by... Posted by Dwight Yoakam on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:20:00 PST |
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