A Long Way Home - Twelve Years of Words

The complete, collected lyrics of one of country music's most prolific and original stars.

Summary

Dwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations.

One reviewer described his work this way: "Yoakam's lyrics--Leonard Cohen meets Ernest Tubb--work so well because they're literary without being high-minded. The artfulness of the words . . . doesn't always hit you until you read them on the lyric sheet."

Newsweek called Yoakam's most recent record--titled, like his book, A Long Way Home--"a daring departure. It's lush and languid, more introspective than hit-driven. He's looking for subtle emotions, melodic evocations of the distances between people, and he draws on sources as varied as Bobby Darin, Chet Baker, and Buck Owens to get there."

A Long Way Home is the first collection of Yoakam's lyrics in book form. It spans his career, from such early albums as Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room to the recently released, critically acclaimed A Long Way Home. Yoakam's songwriting is really storytelling--he poetically writes of subjects ranging from God to drinking to love--and proves him to be as fine a writer as he is a musician.

Product details

• Authors: Dwight Yoakam
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.04.1999
• EAN: 9780786865147
• ISBN: 978-0-7868-6514-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Country and Western, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Country & Bluegrass, MUSIC / Lyrics, Popular Music, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Composers and songwriters