Dwight Yoakam News

Her peers consider Dolly Parton to be among the best singer-songwriters around, in the company of legends Mother Maybelle Carter and Kitty Wells.

Out of all the new country singers to emerge in the early '80s, George Strait stayed the closest to traditional country.

He Said was lucky to have spent twenty-five years on Earth with his Grandpa Hlavaty, who passed away in the summer of 2008 of a brain hemorrhage.

Justin Moore celebrated his first No. 1 single in a big way Monday by performing a mini-concert for a throng of music business insiders at the BMI building in Nashville.

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Actress Jessica Stroup is 23. Singer Barbara Ann Hawkins of The Dixie Cups is 66.

A singer who fused honky-tonk with rock and roll, Dwight Yoakam, with his trademark white cowboy hat, emerged during the late 1980s as one of the more respected country artists.

At age 40 and now six albums into a musical career that's as distinctive and musically adventurous as those of his unwitting mentors, Dwight Yoakam, Lyle Lovett and Neil Young all of them renegades in the country music fold Taber, Alta., songwriter Corb Lund is grappling for the first time with the kinds of personal worries, events and political ...

Looking to hear some live music this weekend? The Big Fresno Fair is up and running with some big musical acts, while a popular country band returns to Visalia.

BMNN wrote: on Oct. 12, 2009: /CMHOF/ The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum's third annual All for the Hall fundraiser, featuring distinguished talents Vince Gill, Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam, and Melissa Etheridge, and hosted by Chris Isaak, proved to be an extraordinarily moving experience.

Emmylou Harris, Dwight Yoakam and other singer-songwriters nimbly display music's varied forms in a casual fundraiser for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

With his stripped-down approach to traditional honky tonk and Bakersfield country, Dwight Yoakam helped return country music to its roots in the late '80s. Like his idols Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, and Hank Williams, Yoakam never played by Nashville's rules; consequently, he never dominated the charts like his contemporary Randy Travis.

Tyler Veronelly of Big Dog 92.7 weighed in this morning with his wish list for the 2010 Craven Country Jamboree: Dwight Yoakam as a classic artist, Deric Ruttan as a Canadian artist and how about another crack at Trace Adkins? I'll also second the "Please Don't Bring Rascal Flatts" suggestion in your Wish List Update #4! Gary LeVox has the tightest ...

Lunch pal Chris and I sat at the dark-wood bar in the Dancing Bear, our hands a blur over the heaps of smoked meats and mugs of beer in front of us.

Local roots 'n' country hero and poker player Corb Lund isn't much of a gambler these days.

And oh honeys, it was hot. Photos by Nikki Mille a I remember growing up, my grandma used to recount seeing Elvis, her most beloved Elvis, on Sullivan in the mid-50s. Glossy eyed, she'd recount those gyrating hips.

Jason Statham returns as Chev Chelios, the revved-up assassin with an unusual heart condition, in Crank: High Voltage , the new installment from Lionsgate Home Entertainment.

Here ya go. Ten ways I'd put the hurt on Kanye West. One. I'd steal his vocal vocoder.

It's unofficially fall, that time of year when thoughts turn to ... yeah, yeah, football, but also concerts that come with an actual roof, seats that you don't stick to and permanent restrooms.

Crank 2: High Voltage : This gleefully mindless action movie picks up where the first Crank left off.