Album · 2004
Dwight's Used Records
Dwight's Used Records is an album by Dwight Yoakam, released in 2004 on New West Records, with 14 tracks.
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Album · 2004
Dwight's Used Records is an album by Dwight Yoakam, released in 2004 on New West Records, with 14 tracks.
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14 tracks · 51 min
Dwight's Used Records is a compilation album by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It was released by Audium Records on June 29, 2004. The album peaked at number 57 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart. The album features cuts Yoakam contributed to several tribute compilations, duets that appeared on other artists' albums, and a few unreleased covers, all in an effort to fulfill his recording contract to Audium, much like his old label Reprise did with the LP In Others’ Words the previous year. Like that album, Dwight’s Used Records sounds remarkably cohesive despite the various sources and artists involved, and speaks to the consistent run of strong recordings Yoakam and producer Pete Anderson developed over their nearly twenty-year run. The collection contains the rootsy blend of country and bluegrass that has always been at the heart of Yoakam's music, represented here with two duets with Ralph Stanley: the patriotic but lovesick "Down Where the River Bends," and "Miner’s Prayer," the only Yoakam original on the album that first appeared on his debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. in 1986. Bluegrass surfaces again on the traditional "Deep Dark Holler" with the Ni…