Dwight Yoakam - This Time

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Media:	Audio CD
Record label:	Warner Brothers
Release date:	23 March, 1993

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Rockin' Good Psycho-Billy Music
Dwight Yoakam never compromises who he is. But he is also never afraid to remake himself. For me this was a watershed Dwight album. This is the time in the career of Yoakam when he really began to cross over. I can remember seeing his, "Thousand Miles From Nowhere" video on MTV during this time. Pretty Surrealistic! Something about Dwight just crosses the line and appeals to a diverse group of music fans. You wouldn't think that non-country fans would like someone with the style Dwight has they do! This album is more Rolling Stones than George Jones. But it is still true to it's country roots. The album is loaded with great songs... "This Time" is a honky tonker with the Bakersfield sound. The Floyd Crameresque piano is especially nice. The mind bending guitar riffs also add character to the song. I always laughed at the psycho-billy tune, "Pocket of a Clown." I like the way Dwight looks at the world in a very slanted way. The radio hit, "Ain't that Lonely Yet" is very interesting when you listen to it in the light of the failed Dwight/Sharon Stone relationship. "Fast as You" is the song I think of the most when I make the Rolling Stones reference. The driving guitars and wailing keyboards give it a rock and roll feel. You can't help but tap those toes when you listen to it. "Wild Ride" is yet another rocker... This album has it all. "Two Doors Down" has that classic country sad song feel. Dwight truly put a diverse album together. It is one of my favorites!
Dwight is the Real Thing
I have listened to and collected recordings for 40 years, and currently have over 3,000 cd's,lp's, and tapes. I love all kinds of music,and grew up loving the music of George Jones, Ray Price, Buck Owens, Merle Haggard and others. IMHO, Dwight is the finest country artist/singer/songwriter on the scene today. Of course, he's got the honky-tonk sound down to a science. But, as other reviewers point out, he covers an amazing range of traditional styles: rockabilly, "old fashioned", Flatt & Scruggs- style (Down the Road), Ballads, and even R&B (If There was a Way). His cover of Queen's (Freddie Mercury, Brian May), "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" is as rocking as the original. I will offer another humble opinion that "The Heart that You Own" is the greatest country song written in the past thirty years, and possibly second only to "Mr. Fool", recorded by George Jones in the 50's. Guitarist/Producer Pete Anderson is also one of the finest string-bending, chicken-picking, volume-swelling, steel-imitating Telecaster players around, along the lines of Danny Gatton and Roy Buchanan. "This Time" is as fine a recording as any of his others--very fresh and energetic. If you really love any kind of country/rockabilly/honky-tonk/shuffle-type of music, you can't get any better than Yoakam, Anderson & Co.
they hrow the word Genious around pretty loosley these days.
. ...but in the Case of Mr. Dwight Yoakam, the term Genious fits like a good pair of Tony Lama cowboy boots . My favorite artist, and the best from his amazing canon of work. . 1,000 Miles from Nowhere . & . Ain't That Lonely Yet . ...these are his two best songs. Eveything he does is good, but if you're gonna get loaded on Yoakam, may as well start with the best stuff.

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