For about three hours, Dwight Yoakam sat at a conference ... John Doe and Exene Cervenka of the band X and actor William Shatner. Yoakam’s “Greater Bakersfield” is the sieve through which ...

Dwight Yoakam spent his formative years acting in theater productions and singing and playing guitar in local garage bands. In 1978, after a brief stint in Nashville, Yoakam relocated to Los Angeles.

Based in North County, Dwight Yoakam tribute band Dwight Lightning includes Les Allen on guitar and vocals, fiddler Ted Stern, bassist Chuck Poche, Larry deMontegre on drums, and keyboardist ...

Though Dwight Yoakam seems a freewheeling ... country's jazziest progressive edge. Yoakam interrupts the conversation to play Rick Nelson and the Stone Canyon Band's 1971 hit "Gypsy Pilot" over ...

Though Dwight Yoakam seems a freewheeling conversationalist, he's always firmly in control of how the 120-mile stretch between Bakersfield, California, and Los Angeles is preserved alongside the ...