Nearly a decade after the release of his 2016 album Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars, and four decades after he turned the Nashville establishment on its head with his distinct brand of West coast ...

Though Dwight Yoakam seems a freewheeling conversationalist, he's always firmly in control of how the 120-mile stretch between Bakersfield, California, and Los Angeles is preserved alongside the roots ...

Rock critic Ken Tucker has been listening to some recent country releases, and he hears some exciting blends of old and new sounds. Country veteran Dwight Yoakam has recorded a harmonious duet with ...

Dwight Yoakam has been making top-shelf country music for four decades. Today (October 22), the Kentucky native turns 68 years old, and, with a new album on the way later this year, he shows no signs ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Country music is a wide-ranging genre descriptor, and many ...

Tough guy, that Dwight Yoakam. A car crash and a gunfight, and the worst thing that happened to him was four stitches in his index finger. The bent metal and gunplay were stunts in "Hollywood Homicide ...

Way back when, Dwight Yoakam found a way to sell hardcore hillbilly country music — that of the high nasal voice, gut-bucket guitar and fiddles — to an audience that country tastemakers in Nashville ...