Dwight Yoakam je americký country rocker, který propojuje tradiční honky-tonk s rockovým přístupem a Bakersfield zvukem. Jeho osobitý styl kombinuje klasické country s výrazným kytarovým zvukem a osobitým vokálním projevem.
Box Original Album Series na pěti CD obsahuje studiová alba z let 1986 až 1993. Otevírá debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. s hity „Honky Tonk Man“ a „Guitars, Cadillacs“, následuje Hillbilly Deluxe s country standardy jako „Little Sister“. Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room přináší duet „Streets of Bakersfield“ s Buckem Owensem, If There Was a Way zahrnuje „Send a Message to My Heart“ s Patty Loveless a kolekci uzavírá This Time s tracky „A Thousand Miles from Nowhere“ a „Ain't That Lonely Yet“. Kompilace zachycuje Yoakamovu tvorbu v období, kdy definoval moderní Bakersfield country zvuk.
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GUITARS, CADILLACS, ETC., ETC.
1. Honky Tonk Man
2. It Won't Hurt
3. I'll Be Gone
4. South of Cincinnati
5. Bury Me - (featuring Maria McKee)
6. Guitars, Cadillacs
7. Twenty Years
8. Ring of Fire
9. Miner's Prayer
10. Heartaches by the Number
HILLBILLY DELUXE
1. Little Ways
2. Smoke Along the Track
3. Johnson's Love
4. Please, Please Baby
5. Reading, Rightin', Rt. 23
6. Always Late with Your Kisses
7. 1,000 Miles
8. Throughout All Time
9. Little Sister
10. This Drinkin' Will Kill Me
BUENAS NOCHES FROM A LONELY ROOM
1. I Got You
2. One More Name
3. What I Don't Know
4. Home of the Blues
5. Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
6. I Hear You Knockin'
7. I Sang Dixie
8. Streets of Bakersfield - (featuring Buck Owens)
9. Floyd County
10. Send Me the Pillow
11. Hold On to God
IF THERE WAS A WAY
1. Distance Between You and Me, The
2. Heart That You Own, The
3. Takes a Lot to Rock You
4. Nothing's Changed Here
5. Sad, Sad Music
6. Since I Started Drinkin' Again
7. If There Was a Way
8. Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose
9. It Only Hurts When I Cry
10. Send a Message to My Heart - (featuring Patty Loveless)
11. I Don't Need It Done
12. You're the One
13. Dangerous Man
14. Let's Work Together
THIS TIME
1. Pocket of a Clown
2. Thousand Miles from Nowhere, A
3. Home for Sale
4. This Time
5. Two Doors Down
6. Ain't That Lonely Yet
7. King of Fools
8. Fast as You
9. Try Not to Look So Pretty
10. Wild Ride
11. Lonesome Roads
