A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words

. He is an acclaimed musician and songwriter and now actor, with critically appraised performances in such films as Sling Blade and The Newton Boys. A native of Kentucky, Dwight Yoakam now lives in Los Angeles. His 1998 release A Long Way Home made People magazine's Best of Song list. About the AuthorDwight Yoakam is a Grammy Award winner and fourteen-time nominee

B. Woodley said Dwight's an Incredible, But Nuanced Songwriter. I love reading the poetry of Dwight Yoakam's songs, his lyrics. From them I realize he is an extremely intelligent, witty and deep-feeling man who says a lot with an economy of words. He's careful about his subject matter; for example, no politics. On the other hand, he has a beautiful mastery of the English language and a keen, wry wit. His favorite subject matte. Elegance in simplicity Dwight Yoakam does not write complex lyrics. What he writes are lyrics of deep emotion and unsurpassed longing. Without the twang-and-swing of his honky-tonk melodies, these songs are reduced to their bared bones, stripped and displayed in all their anguish and despair. From the straightforward "It won't hurt when I fall down from this barstool; it won't hurt when. Song for the eyes For a long time Yoakam enjoyer, this collection of poems (lyrics) is a song for the eyes.The quietness of this music vibrates to the depths of your understanding. Like Yoakam?Get this book.

He is an acclaimed musician and songwriter and now actor, with critically appraised performances in such films as Sling Blade and The Newton Boys. Dwight Yoakam is a Grammy Award winner and fourteen-time nominee. . His 1998 release A Long Way Home made People magazine's Best of Song list. A native of Kentucky, Dwight Yoakam now lives in Los Angeles

He's looking for subtle emotions, melodic evocations of the distances between people, and he draws on sources as varied as Bobby Darin, Chet Baker, and Buck Owens to get there."A Long Way Home is the first collection of Yoakam's lyrics in book form. One reviewer described his work this way: "Yoakam's lyrics--Leonard Cohen meets Ernest Tubb--work so well because they're literary without being high-minded. Yoakam's songwriting is really storytelling--he poetically writes of subjects ranging from God to drinking to love--and proves him to be as fine a writer as he is a musician.. It's lush and languid, more introspective than hit-driven. It spans his career, from such early albums as Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room to the recently released, critically acclaimed A Long Way Home. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations. Dwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. The artfulness of the words doesn't always hit you until you read them on the lyric sheet."Newsweek called Yoakam's most recent record--titled, like