A Long Way Home

by Dwight Yoakam

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/09/1998
Label:	Reprise
UPC:	0093624691822

Tracks

1. Same Fool
2. The Curse
3. Things Change
4. Yet to Succeed
5. I Wouldn't Put It Past Me
6. These Arms
7. That's Okay
8. Only Want You More
9. I'll Just Take These
10. A Long Way Home
11. Listen
12. Traveler's Lantern
13. Maybe You Like It, Maybe You Don't

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Dwight Yoakam   Primary Artist,Vocals,Guitar (Acoustic)
Scott Joss   Guest Artist,Fiddle
Jim Lauderdale   Guest Artist,Vocals,Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Background)
Bonnie Bramlett   Guest Artist
Ralph Stanley   Guest Artist,Banjo,Vocals,Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Background)
Pete Anderson   Guest Artist,Finger Snaps,Handclapping,Lap Steel Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Dean Parks   Guitar (Acoustic)
Marty Rifkin   Dobro,Pedal Steel
Beth Andersen   Vocals,Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Background)
Tommy Funderburk   Vocals,Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Background)
Jim Christie   Drums
Tempo   Percussion
Taras Prodaniuk   Bass
Chuck Domanico   Bass,Bass (Upright)
Skip Edwards   Piano,Keyboards,Wurlitzer,Organ (Hammond)
Carl Jackson   Vocals,Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Background)
Murray Adler   String Conductor
Bonnie Sheridan   Vocals,Vocal Harmony,Vocals (Background)

Technical Credits

David Leonard   Mixing
John Hendrickson   Assistant Engineer
Judy Clapp   Mixing
Pete Anderson   Arranger,Producer
Jim Lauderdale   Vocal Arrangement
Ralph Stanley   Vocal Arrangement
Rafael Serrano   Assistant Engineer
Michael Dumas   Engineer
Beth Andersen   Vocal Arrangement
Tim Davis   Assistant Engineer
Tommy Funderburk   Vocal Arrangement
Dwight Yoakam   Composer,Art Direction
Elijah Bradford   Assistant Engineer
John "Punkin" Young   Production Coordination
Stephen Marcussen   Mastering
Dusty Wakeman   Engineer
Carl Jackson   Vocal Arrangement
Linda Cobb   Design,Photography,Art Direction
Mauricio Iragorri   Assistant Engineer
Randee Saint Nicholas   Photography
Claudius Kumar   Assistant Engineer
Jim Boyd   String Arrangements
Bonnie Sheridan   Vocal Arrangement
Gary Ebbins   Production Coordination
Susie Schoepe   Production Coordination