Dwight Yoakam

On the tremendous "This Time," Dwight Yoakam again delivers country vocals in an
understated certainty of which few of his peers can conceive. In a form of music whose
best singers (George Jones, Conway Twitty) favor melodrama, Yoakam delivers cleanly.
And while weepers like "Two Doors Down" and "King of Fools" belong in jukebox heaven,
the rockers find Yoakam serving up absolutely earthy delights. Here, too, his ta... More >

Neotraditionalism as neoclassicism, which he knows; cold son of a bitch as victim, which he doesn't ("This Time," "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere")