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   A rebroadcast of a conversation with Dwight Yoakam

   with Dwight Yoakam on Dec 20, 1996

   Duration

   17 min

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Dwight David Yoakam is an American musician, songwriter, and actor. His recording debut was on the independent album “A Town South of Bakersfield”. His debut LP was 1986’s “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.” and it instantly launched his career. “Honky Tonk Man”.

Yoakam has also taken some acting roles, most notably as the abusive alcoholic Doyle in “Sling Blade”, (1996) and as a sociopathic killer in 2002’s “Panic Room”. Yoakam has written or covered many Elvis Presley-style rockabilly songs, including his popular covers of Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” in 1999 and Presley’s “Suspicious Minds” in 1992. He recorded a cover of the Clash’s “Train in Vain” in 1997. Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_Yoakam