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[Don McLeese] ↠ Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (American Music Series) ✓ Download Online eBook or Kindle ePUB. Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (American Music Series) Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with Yoakam and his management, while also benefitting from the perspectives of others closely associated with his musical success (including producer-guitarist Pete Anderson, Yoakam's partner throughout his most popular and creative decades), Dwight Yoakam pays tribute to the musician who has established himself as a visionary beyond time, an artist who could title an album Tomorrow's Sounds Today and deliver it.. From his formative years pla
| Title | : | Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere (American Music Series) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.64 (511 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0292723814 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-08 |
| Language | : | English |
Don McLeese was formerly the pop music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and the Austin American-Statesman, as well as country columnist and frequent contributor to Rolling Stone and a senior editor for No Depression. He has chronicled Dwight Yoakam in reviews, features, and interviews from the beginning of the artist’s recording career through the present day. . His most recent book is The New York
Library Journal 2012-03-01) . Carrigan Jr. "This lovingly crafted and compulsively readable biography is essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing." (Henry L
tworoses said Not worth your time. Largely a musicology review. Not something a fan would want to read.. Intelligent and Insightful I am only half way through, but I am VERY impressed with this musical biography about Dwight Yoakam. I like how this is not just a chronology of Dwight's life, although it contains personal biographical information. It's a happy medium of thorough research, real life expe. Yes, but not quite J. Hundley It really is kind of surprising that for an artist as popular and critically lauded as Yoakam has been that there is so little written about him and his music. This is a solid first step in remedying that gulf. This is not, and not intended to be, a biography, but niether
Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with Yoakam and his management, while also benefitting from the perspectives of others closely associated with his musical success (including producer-guitarist Pete Anderson, Yoakam's partner throughout his most popular and creative decades), Dwight Yoakam pays tribute to the musician who has established himself as a visionary beyond time, an artist who could title an album Tomorrow's Sounds Today and deliver it.. From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-'80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. Four decades into his career, he has sold more than 25 million records and continues to tour regularly, with an extremely loyal fan base.In Dwight Yoakam, award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of this acclaimed artist. Tracing the seemingly disparate influences in Yoakam's music, McLeese shows how he has combined rock and roll, rockabilly, country, blues, and gospel into a seamless whole. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other—commercial country and its alternative/Americana/
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