Dwight Yoakam
American country singer-songwriter, actor, and film director · United States · Musicians · Born 1956 · age 70
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Something wrong?Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. He first achieved mainstream attention in 1986 with the release of his debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.. Yoakam had considerable success throughout the late 1980s onward, with a total of ten studio albums for Reprise Records.
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Dwight Yoakam was born in Pikeville, Kentucky.
Pete Anderson produced and played lead guitar on the majority of Yoakam's albums.
Yoakam had a number one single in 1988 with "Streets of Bakersfield", a duet with Buck Owens (pictured here in 1977).
Kostas wrote several of Yoakam's singles in the 1990s.
Yoakam performing in 2008.
Yoakam had a hit in 1999 with a cover of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love".Listen
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Dwight David Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. He first achieved mainstream attention in 1986 with the release of his debut album Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.. Yoakam had considerable success throughout the late 1980s onward, with a total of ten studio albums for Reprise Records. Later projects have been released on Audium, New West, Warner, Sugar Hill Records, and Thirty Tigers.
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