Dwight Yoakam is a high-concept classicist. He inhabits an era and geography all his own, a remembered 1960s California where Buck Owens and the Byrds somehow reigned together in harmony. It's a ...

This is FRESH AIR. Dwight Yoakam has been making music that mixes country with rock 'n' roll since the 1970s. Working out of Los Angeles rather than Nashville, he's built a career that has also ...

His new song 'Second Hand Heart' isn't offensive, but it's still very vanilla. "I'm a little used up / A little tattered at the seems / But there's still enough of me to be the man you need ...

Dwight Yoakam has announced his 15th studio album, 'Second Hand Heart,' due out later this spring. The record is set for release on April 14. Yoakam produced 'Second Hand Heart' with Chris Lorde ...

Of the Whisky gig, where he performed tunes from “Second Hand Heart” for the first time since recording the album, Yoakam, 58, laughed and said, “It was like coming down the backside of ...

Dwight Yoakam‘s career is coming full circle, both in the business and melodic senses. Second Hand Heart, the country star’s new album, out April 14th, marks his return to Reprise Records, the ...