A Long Way Home

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Product Description A Long Way Home by Dwight Yoakam Amazon.com In the vein of 1995's Gone, Dwight Yoakam continues to argue for an alternative-country future. Expanding his retro Bakersfield sound with significant flourishes of more contemporary and not-so-contemporary pop, rock, and soul, A Long Way Home is an aurally stunning and eclectic recording. "These Arms" begins as a Ray Price shuffle, then seamlessly morphs into a dramatic pop gem, while the thrilling "Yet to Succeed" and "I'll Just Take These" are modern countrypolitan. And mixed among the country pop are roadhouse rockers and bluegrassy hollers, all with some of the more arresting lyrics of Yoakam's career. His last three releases--collections of live tracks, quirky covers and Christmas songs--have been distressingly subpar, but A Long Way Home finds Yoakam not as far from home as we'd feared. --David Cantwell Review Country wouldn't be country without violin strings, of course, but please, give us only the type that fiddlers, not Philharmonics, play. Luckily, that is the only misstep in this collection of 13 heartbreak ballads and honky-tonk tunes that feature stellar performances by the wonderful band Yoakam has assembled. -- People Mostly, A Long Way Home represents his Roy Orbison move. Big, grand, sweeping, operatic and heart-on-the-sleeve emotive.... -- No Depression Potential girlfriends, consider yourselves warned. Few other performers are capable of the kind of sustained bitterness Dwight Yoakam expresses on A Long Way Home.... Indeed, it takes the album's full length to appreciate the depth of vitriol into which Yoakam will plunge. Musically, Home is perhaps the sparest of Yoakam's 11 albums, following the more experimental stylings of Gone and Under the Covers. -- USA Today You'll find no covers here, and that's good because [Yoakam's] own writing has sufficiently improved to the point that he doesn't need to draw on oldies. His compositions capture a variety of moods, all with an unrelenting sense of urgency and immediacy. -- Country Music Magazine [Dwight Yoakam's] best songs look squarely at romantic failings, always the most fertile ground for good country songs. "These Arms" voices a single- minded yearning for love like vintage Buck Owens, while "The Curse" dares anyone to enjoy a happy moment in the face of the pain love can inflict. -- The Los Angeles Times