Dwight Yoakam

• Artist:
  Dwight Yoakam
• Album:
  Dwight Sings Buck
• Track:
  • PLAY
  Close Up the Honky Tonks

Hangin’ and bangin’ on a Saturday night: It’ll be the standard dinner-gallery-nightclub run with a few comrades. Not too original. A little of the same old same-old, but certainly manageable. I’m sure that some of us have clubs or floating parties that they try to attend on a frequent basis – places where the scene is always worth the trouble of going out. I know how bummed I’ve been w

More >

• Permalink
• Comments (13)

• Artist:
  Dwight Yoakam
• Album:
  This Time
• Track:
  • PLAY
  • QUEUE
  Two Doors Down

One of the sad facts of moving house is that neighbors will often not recognize misanthropy until it literally smashes them upside the head with the blunt force of a mostly empty gin bottle. If you are anything like me, your gin bottles are ensconced in knickknacks and baubles meant to invoke the spirit and goodwill of lords and creators; cruciform baubles of lavender scent that juxtapose poor...

More >

• Permalink
• Comments (3)

• Artist:
  Dwight Yoakam
• Album:
  This Time
• Track:
  • PLAY
  A Thousand Miles from Nowhere

I'm a thousand miles from nowhereTime don't matter to me'Cause I'm a thousand miles from nowhereAnd there's no place I want to beI got heartaches in my pocketI got echoes in my headAnd all that I keep hearingAre the cruel cruel things that you saidI'm a thousand miles from nowhereTime don't matter to me'Cause I'm a thousand miles from nowhereAnd there's no place I want to beOh, IOh, IOh, IOh, I...

More >

• Permalink
• Comments (6)

• Artist:
  Dwight Yoakam
• Track:
  • PLAY
  • QUEUE
  Sin City - (with K.D. Lang)

So, long story... I had just spent about twenty minutes fucking off at work, and by fucking off I mean sitting, alone, sheltered from the rain, but not the wind, watching dozens and dozens of geese gorging themselves on what smelled like shit, but looked a lot like wheat. The time had finally come for me to be done fucking off in that particular manner, so I put the forklift in gear a headed ...

More >

• Permalink
• Comments (12)