| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00093624782728 | | Release Date: 10/31/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60441799 | | Item#: MF3SMX | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 49377 | Format:  CD |
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| Dwight's unstoppable drive rates him as one of the most encouraging forces in his chosen field, and TOMORROW'S SOUNDS TODAY is quite possibly his finest album to date. Dwight's gift for updating and restructuring established forms into vibrant new styles only highlights both this singular performer's natural gift and the crucial role he plays in country music--not as mere tradition bearer, but as an aggressive artist whose ongoing career is one of the very few that's not just continually evolving but, more importantly, ascending to new heights.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Dwight Yoakam (vocals, acoustic guitar); Buck Owens (vocals); Al Bonhomme (acoustic guitar); Pete Anderson (electric guitar, percussion); Gary Morse (lap & pedal steel guitars); Chris Hillman (mandolin); Scott Joss, Don Reed (fiddle); Flaco Jimenez (accordion); Skip Edwards (keyboards); Taras Prodaniuk (bass); Jim Christie (drums); Jonathan Clark, Jim Lauderdale (background vocals). | | Principally recorded ar The Dog Bone Studios, Burbank, California. | | In-between directing a film, maintaining an acting career, launching his own website, and touring in support of the solo CD set DWIGHTYOAKAMACOUSTIC.NET, it's downright remarkable that Dwight Yoakam found the time to record TOMMOROW'S SOUNDS TODAY before 2000 ended. Despite all this activity, Yoakam's production partner/guitarist Pete Anderson came up with another outing that bucks Music Row trends while honoring country music's past without becoming nostalgic. | | Throughout TOMORROW'S SOUNDS, Dwight Yoakam's rich tenor gets put to great use on songs like the Buddy Holly-inspired "Dreams of Clay" and the gritty honky-tonk of "A Place to Cry." Backed by a crack band featuring the distinctive contributions of fiddler Scott Joss and steel guitarist Gary Morse, Yoakam also impresses with tear-in-your beer laments like the seasonally themed "Time Spent Missing You" (featuring former Byrd Chris Hillman on mandolin) and the Hank Williams-flavored "The Heartaches Are Free." Highlights include a brilliant cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You to Want Me" in which Yoakam applies a twangy sheen to this warhorse without killing the song's spirit, and a pair of bonus Buck Owens duets. |
Producer: Pete Anderson |
Engineer: Sally Browder; Jason Robbins |
Musical Guests | | Buck Owens | | Flaco Jimenez | | Chris Hillman |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/31/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 47827 | | Label : Reprise | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00093624782728 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (12/7/00, p.114)
- 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...[His] musical vision remains wholly focused on the kind of country sounds you only find these days on - well, Dwight Yoakam albums....timeless..."CMJ (11/27/00, p.33)
- "...Yoakam scatters colorful timbres throughout the album....what makes this sound like the future of country is [his] incredible ability to incorporate the music of the past into his current style." |
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| | Bio | | Dwight Yoakam is one of the most successful country artists in history. This Time (1993) is triple platinum; Guitars, Cadillacs, ETC., ETC. (1987), Hillbilly Deluxe (1987), If There Was A Way (1990) and Just Lookin' For A Hit (1989) are platinum, and Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (1988), Dwight Live (1995) and Gone (1995) are gold. He's scored seven Top 10 country hits, including the #1s "Ain't That Lonely Yet", and "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere". At the 1999 Grammys, Yoakam won Best Country Collaboration, with other country stars, for "Same Old Train". He won in 1993 for Best Country Vocal Performance, Male, for "Ain't That Lonely Yet". Among his nominations are those for Best Country Album for Under The Covers (1997), Gone and Dwight Live. His acclaimed acting performances, as in the Academy Award-winning Sling Blade, have introduced him to an audience beyond country music, and he's stretching his film wings even further as writer/director/actor in the soon-to-be released South Of Heaven, West Of Hell.
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