In March 1986, during the 11th season of the venerable PBS music series Austin City Limits, country’s future king, George Strait, was making his second appearance on the show in a episode that ...

When Dwight Yoakam moved to Nashville to start a music career, his hillbilly twang wasn’t favored by the industry. Yoakam headed to Los Angeles, where he wrote original material and played his tunes ...

Long before Renaissance man Dwight Yoakam was selling over 25 million records and making an impression on movie audiences in films like Sling Blade, Panic Room and South of Heaven, West of Hell (which ...

The context: Like countless other aspiring singer-songwriters raised on Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, and Bakersfield honky-tonk, Ohio native Dwight Yoakam moved to Nashville with dreams of country ...

Twenty-seven years after Dwight Yoakam's breakthrough hit "Guitars, Cadillacs," he took his first Bonnaroo stage, reminding him of an even earlier part of his career. He didn't get signed to a label ...