It's one thing to have a hit with Elvis' "Little Sister" and quite another to recycle Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" in shitkicker's garb. And who can forget Dwight's ill-fated liaison ...

Dwight Yoakam's 1986 debut, Guitars ... he's done a honky-tonk spin on Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love," Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me," The Clash's "Train In Vain," Prince's ...

A Kentucky native who cut his teeth as a honky-tonk musician in California, Dwight Yoakam has seemed like an odd man out for the entirety of his 30-plus year career. To listen to the songs Dwight ...

QUESTION: Please give me the address of Dwight Yoakam, the country singer. I want to congratulate him on that great dancing commercial. P.E., Altamonte Springs. ANSWER: Now, you do realize that Yoa… ...

A coal country intellectual, the Kentucky-born, Ohio-raised Yoakam arrived in Los Angeles in 1977, a rawboned 21-year-old “just lookin’ for a hit,” as he would later title a best-of collection.