As he entered his second decade of recording, Dwight Yoakam began to take more time between records. A three-year gap separated A Long Way Home from Gone -- the last time he went that long between albums of new material was 1990's If There Was a Way and 1993's This Time. As it happened, This Time was a masterpiece, a breakthrough of sorts in that it expanded Yoakam's already large stylistic trickbag. A Long Way Home doesn't rank with This Time, probably because it is an outgrowth of that leap forward instead of the leap itself, but like Gone, it is a rich, diverse, continually impressive collection of timeless songs. Yoakam and his producer/guitarist Pete Anderson keep things interesting by never following conventions -- "These Arms" has a Bakersfield foundation, but it's graced by sweeping Nashville strings that bring the song into new territory. That's just one of many unexpected touches that make A Long Way Home a rewarding listen, even if it doesn't consistently reach the heights of such previous masterstrokes as Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Buenos Noches From a Lonely Room, and This Time.
I was a Letterman fan early on, always making sure to catch his appearances on the Tonight Show, arranging my schedule so I could see his daytime show and staying up late to see his original nighttime show on NBC. His first few years at CBS were a treat, but as the run wore on, he seemed to tailor his jokes more to the tourists in the live audience than those of us in TV land. So I was really ...
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 Same Fool |
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| 2 The Curse |
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| 3 Things Change |
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| 4 Yet to Succeed |
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| 5 I Wouldn't Put It Past Me |
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| 6 These Arms |
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| 7 That's Okay |
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| 8 Only Want You More |
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| 9 I'll Just Take These |
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| 10 A Long Way Home |
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| 11 Listen |
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| 12 Traveler's Lantern |
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| 13 Maybe You Like It, Maybe You Don't |
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