Description: Further DetailsTitle: Dwight YoakamCondition: NewSubtitle: A Thousand Miles from NowhereISBN-10: 0292723814EAN: 9780292723818ISBN: 9780292723818Publisher: University of Texas PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 03/01/2012Description: From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-’80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other—commercial country and its alternative/Americana/roots-rocking counterpart. Defying the label “too country for rock, too rock for country,” Yoakam has triumphed while many of his peers have had to settle for cult acceptance. Four decades into his career, he has sold more than 25 million records and continues to tour regularly, with an extremely loyal fan base. In Dwight Yoakam, award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of this acclaimed artist. Tracing the seemingly disparate influences in Yoakam’s music, McLeese shows how he has combined rock and roll, rockabilly, country, blues, and gospel into a seamless whole. In particular, McLeese explores the essential issue of “authenticity” and how it applies to Yoakam, as well as to country music and popular culture in general. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with Yoakam and his management, while also benefitting from the perspectives of others closely associated with his musical success (including producer-guitarist Pete Anderson, Yoakam’s partner throughout his most popular and creative decades), Dwight Yoakam pays tribute to the musician who has established himself as a visionary beyond time, an artist who could title an album Tomorrow’s Sounds Today and deliver it.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmItem Width: 23mmAuthor: Don McLeeseGenre: BiographyBook Series: American Music SeriesItem Weight: 286gTopic: Music Dance & TheatreRelease Year: 2012 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Dwight Yoakam
Title: Dwight Yoakam
Subtitle: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
ISBN-10: 0292723814
EAN: 9780292723818
ISBN: 9780292723818
Release Date: 03/01/2012
Release Year: 2012
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Series: American Music Series
Book Title: Dwight Yoakam : a Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Number of Pages: 232 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication Year: 2012
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: Genres & Styles / General, Composers & Musicians
Genre: Music, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 10.1 Oz
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Don Mcleese
Item Width: 5 in
Book Series: American Music Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
