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Six years after his monumental debut recording, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Dwight Yoakam is still delivering the goods. After inadvertently (and unwillingly) being credited with creating the new traditionalist movement, Yoakam takes his hard-edged country influences from Buck Owens, Johnny Horton, Ray Price, and Merle Haggard and expands them to include new instruments and textures as well as voices -- one can hear in these broken love songs the voice of Gene Pitney as well -- and come up with something new again. This Time is not a party record in the way his first pair of albums were. Take the first half of Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room and add a marvelously played Hammond B-3 courtesy of Skip Edwards and keep the downer flow going and you got it. Buck Owens' spirit appears on "This Time," a song that, while deep in the Bakerfield groove, has a more elegiac tone thanks to Yoakam's songwriting collaboration with country songsmith legend Kostas (who first worked with Yoakam on If There Was a Way); they wrote half the album together. Kostas' lush approach to melody is not alien to Yoakam's as demonstrated by the tunes Dwight penned himself -- "Pocket of a Clown" (with a doo wop backing chorus in swing harmony) and the devastating ballads "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" and "Home for Sale," among others. But in Kostas Yoakam found a writer as interested in textures as in unique ways to use his voice. "Two Doors Down" is a stunning example, as is the lone cover on the disc, by Kostas and James House, "Ain't That Lonely Yet," where Yoakam moves into Roy Orbison territory with strings and lush backdrops that meld Bakersfield with Pitney's conceptual mini-soundtracks and the arrangements on Jim Reeves' best records. With production help from Dusty Wakeman (Lucinda Williams' self-titled and Sweet Old World albums), Pete Anderson was able to add depth and dimension to an already full sound. The echoes of early rock and soul entwine the honky tonk tempos and instruments and become something wholly other. This album is a welcome addition to Yoakam's formidable catalog. This Time is no sell out; it's a new way to present the timelessness of hard, torn, wasted-love country love songs with less reckless sentimentality and more honest emotion.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
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Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Pedal Steel Guitar, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Scott Joss, Fiddle - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Dan Reed, Fiddle - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals - Taras Prodaniak, Bass Guitar
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Bass, Lap Steel Guitar - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Al Perkins, Bass, Dobro - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Kostas, Writer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Pedal Steel Guitar, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Kostas, Writer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - James House, Writer - Al Perkins, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Paul Buckmaster, String Arranger, Strings Conductor - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Kostas, Writer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Scott Joss, Fiddle - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - Dan Reed, Fiddle - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Kostas, Writer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Scott Joss, Fiddle - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - Dan Reed, Fiddle - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Al Perkins, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Paul Buckmaster, String Arranger, Strings Conductor - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Kostas, Writer - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Scott Joss, Fiddle - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - Dan Reed, Fiddle
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Dean Parks, Acoustic Guitar - David Leonard, MixingEngineer - Dwight Yoakam, Lead Vocals, Writer, Background Vocals, MainArtist - Scott Humphrey, Arranger, Programmer - Tommy Funderburk, Background Vocals - Al Perkins, Pedal Steel Guitar, Bass - David López, AssistantEngineer - Stephen Marcussen, MasteringEngineer - Jeff Donavan, Drums - PETE ANDERSON, Producer, Arranger, Electric Guitar - JIM LAUDERDALE, Background Vocals - Chuck Domanico, Upright Bass - Craig Doubet, AssistantEngineer - Beth Anderson, Background Vocals - DUSTY WAKEMAN, RecordingEngineer, AssociateProducer - Scott Joss, Fiddle - Skip Edwards, Keyboards - Taras Prodaniuk, Bass Guitar - Dan Reed, Fiddle - James Couger, Background Vocals - Jim Haas, Background Vocals
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
Album review
Six years after his monumental debut recording, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Dwight Yoakam is still delivering the goods. After inadvertently (and unwillingly) being credited with creating the new traditionalist movement, Yoakam takes his hard-edged country influences from Buck Owens, Johnny Horton, Ray Price, and Merle Haggard and expands them to include new instruments and textures as well as voices -- one can hear in these broken love songs the voice of Gene Pitney as well -- and come up with something new again. This Time is not a party record in the way his first pair of albums were. Take the first half of Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room and add a marvelously played Hammond B-3 courtesy of Skip Edwards and keep the downer flow going and you got it. Buck Owens' spirit appears on "This Time," a song that, while deep in the Bakerfield groove, has a more elegiac tone thanks to Yoakam's songwriting collaboration with country songsmith legend Kostas (who first worked with Yoakam on If There Was a Way); they wrote half the album together. Kostas' lush approach to melody is not alien to Yoakam's as demonstrated by the tunes Dwight penned himself -- "Pocket of a Clown" (with a doo wop backing chorus in swing harmony) and the devastating ballads "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" and "Home for Sale," among others. But in Kostas Yoakam found a writer as interested in textures as in unique ways to use his voice. "Two Doors Down" is a stunning example, as is the lone cover on the disc, by Kostas and James House, "Ain't That Lonely Yet," where Yoakam moves into Roy Orbison territory with strings and lush backdrops that meld Bakersfield with Pitney's conceptual mini-soundtracks and the arrangements on Jim Reeves' best records. With production help from Dusty Wakeman (Lucinda Williams' self-titled and Sweet Old World albums), Pete Anderson was able to add depth and dimension to an already full sound. The echoes of early rock and soul entwine the honky tonk tempos and instruments and become something wholly other. This album is a welcome addition to Yoakam's formidable catalog. This Time is no sell out; it's a new way to present the timelessness of hard, torn, wasted-love country love songs with less reckless sentimentality and more honest emotion.
© Thom Jurek /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 11 track(s)
- Total length: 00:42:04
- Main artists: Dwight Yoakam
- Label: Rhino - Warner Records
- Genre: Country
© 1993 Reprise Records. ℗ 1993 Reprise Records, a label of Warner Records Inc. Marketed by Rhino Entertainment Company, a Warner Music Group Company.
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