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Hillbilly Deluxe is proof that beyond a shadow of a doubt, Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. was no fluke. There's no sophomore slump here, and while Hillbilly Deluxe may be seen as an extension of his debut, repetition 'taint necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it can be heard and viewed as Yoakam and producer/guitarist Pete Anderson cementing the commitment to Bakersfield-styled honky tonk music. Yoakam's voice is a dead cross of Merle Haggard's early voice and Lefty Frizzell's -- a fine cover of the latter's "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" is included here -- and as such, it is one of the purest, most soulful voices in this era. But as displayed on his debut, Yoakam is one hell of a songwriter as well. Cuts like "Little Ways," the album's first single, "Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23," and the amazing "Throughout All Time," with its dancing fiddles and lapsteel guitars entwined with Anderson's lead, are worthy of serious consideration as among the finest country songs written in the preceding five years. An added bonus is a killer version of Doc Pomus' classic "Little Sister" that rivals Elvis Presley's -- yeah, that's right -- and blows Ry Cooder's tepid cover of it away. The only other cover here is the classic "Smoke Along the Track" by Alan Rose and Don Helms, and in true hardcore troubadour fashion, Yoakam makes it his own, swinging it in the best Johnny Cash and Tennessee Three fashion rhythmically and with Haggard's winsome railroad vocal that he took from Jimmie Rodgers. While there can be no doubt about Yoakam's "hillbilly" roots in Kentucky, this disc is deluxe in virtually every way.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Herb Pedersen, Background Vocals - Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Alan Rose, Writer - Don Helms, Writer - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Tom Brumley, Pedal Steel Guitar - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Background Vocals, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Herb Pedersen, Background Vocals - Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Blackie Crawford, Writer - Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar, Background Vocals - Greg Leisz, Lap Steel Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, Background Vocals, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Lefty Frizzell, Writer - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Herb Pedersen, Background Vocals - Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Herb Pedersen, Background Vocals - Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, MainArtist - Doc Pomus, Writer - Mort Shuman, Writer - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Herb Pedersen, Background Vocals - Dwight Yoakam, Acoustic Guitar, Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Brantley Kearns, Fiddle - JD Foster, Bass Guitar - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Electric Guitar - JUDY CLAPP, AssistantEngineer - Eddie Schreyer, MasteringEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, MixingEngineer, RecordingEngineer - MICHAEL DUMAS, Assistant Production - Skip Edwards, Piano - Dan Freedman, Assistant Production
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Reprise Records for the world outside the U.S.A. and Via, under exclusive license to Rhino Entertainment Company, for the U.S.A
Album review
Hillbilly Deluxe is proof that beyond a shadow of a doubt, Dwight Yoakam's Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. was no fluke. There's no sophomore slump here, and while Hillbilly Deluxe may be seen as an extension of his debut, repetition 'taint necessarily a bad thing. In fact, it can be heard and viewed as Yoakam and producer/guitarist Pete Anderson cementing the commitment to Bakersfield-styled honky tonk music. Yoakam's voice is a dead cross of Merle Haggard's early voice and Lefty Frizzell's -- a fine cover of the latter's "Always Late (With Your Kisses)" is included here -- and as such, it is one of the purest, most soulful voices in this era. But as displayed on his debut, Yoakam is one hell of a songwriter as well. Cuts like "Little Ways," the album's first single, "Readin', Rightin', Rt. 23," and the amazing "Throughout All Time," with its dancing fiddles and lapsteel guitars entwined with Anderson's lead, are worthy of serious consideration as among the finest country songs written in the preceding five years. An added bonus is a killer version of Doc Pomus' classic "Little Sister" that rivals Elvis Presley's -- yeah, that's right -- and blows Ry Cooder's tepid cover of it away. The only other cover here is the classic "Smoke Along the Track" by Alan Rose and Don Helms, and in true hardcore troubadour fashion, Yoakam makes it his own, swinging it in the best Johnny Cash and Tennessee Three fashion rhythmically and with Haggard's winsome railroad vocal that he took from Jimmie Rodgers. While there can be no doubt about Yoakam's "hillbilly" roots in Kentucky, this disc is deluxe in virtually every way.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 10 track(s)
- Total length: 00:34:17
- Main artists: Dwight Yoakam
- Label: Rhino - Warner Records
- Genre: Blues/Country/Folk Country
© 1987 Warner Records Inc. ℗ 1987 Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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