A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words - Dwight Yoakam - Books - Hyperion - 9780786865147 - April 28, 1999
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A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words 1st edition

Dwight Yoakam

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A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words 1st edition

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.


160 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released USA, April 28, 1999
ISBN13 9780786865147
Publishers Hyperion
Pages 160
Dimensions 140 × 210 × 20 mm   ·   340 g
Language English  

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