A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words

Dwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations. One reviewer described his work this way: Yoakam's lyrics--Leonard Cohen meets Ernest Tubb--work so well because they're literary without being high-minded. The artfulness of the words . . . doesn't always hit you until you read them on the lyric sheet.Newsweek called Yoakam's most recent record--titled, like his book, A Long Way Home--a daring departure. It's lush and languid, more introspective than hit-driven. He's looking for subtle emotions, melodic evocations of the distances between people, and he draws on sources as varied as Bobby Darin, Chet Baker, and Buck Owens to get there.A Long Way Home is the first collection of Yoakam's lyrics in book form. It spans his career, from such early albums as Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room to the recently released, critically acclaimed A Long Way Home. Yoakam's songwriting is really storytelling--he poetically writes of subjects ranging from God to drinking to love--and proves him to be as fine a writer as he is a musician.

Author: Dwight Yoakam
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 04/28/1999
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.80w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780786865147
ISBN10: 0786865148
BISAC Categories:
- Music | Genres & Styles | Country & Bluegrass | General
- Poetry | American | General
- Music | Lyrics

About the Author
Dwight Yoakam is a Grammy Award winner and fourteen-time nominee. He is an acclaimed musician and songwriter and now actor, with critically appraised performances in such films as Sling Blade and The Newton Boys. His 1998 release A Long Way Home made People magazine's Best of Song list. A native of Kentucky, Dwight Yoakam now lives in Los Angeles.