**** Dwight Yoakam, Population Me (Electrodisc): For a performer who has made his reputation as an ambassador for country’s classic Bakersfield Sound, it’s distressing to hear Dwight Yoakam imitating ...

In recent months, Dwight Yoakam effectively wrapped up what was left of his career as a mainstream country singer: After a long and fruitful stint on a major label, which culminated in a four-disc ...

The curtain goes up on Dwight Yoakam's indie Electrodisc imprint with this new release from its CEO. Yoakam's post-Warner Bros. By Billboard Staff The curtain goes up on Dwight Yoakam’s indie ...

Leave it to Dwight Yoakam to transform the suave Bacharach-David pop nugget "Trains and Boats and Planes" into brisk quasi-bluegrass -- with the venerable Earl Scruggs on banjo. That's what country's ...

Kicking off with the rousing perverse "The Late Great Golden State, Yoakam s first album for his own label after 17 years at Reprise shows he s still committed to preserving a classic country sound, ...

COUNTRY There’s nothing particularly special about Dwight Yoakam’s latest album, “Population Me,” and that’s what’s special about it. Yoakam has always kept his take on Bakersfield-style country music ...

Yoakam’s latest, Population Me, takes an especially fatalistic view of life, from a song about a crumbling California to the barren romantic landscape of the title track. A duet with the ubiquitous ...