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Post by classiccountryfan on Jan 22, 2004 20:02:34 GMT -5
I just got 2 of the best Dwight Yoakam cd's both new.
one is Population Me and In Other Words the latter is the songs he has recorded for soundtrack and tribute cd's both are 2 of the best from last year.
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Post by SweetNadine on Jan 22, 2004 20:10:57 GMT -5
I have Population Me. I like it. I need to pick-up the In Other Words CD.  |
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Post by classiccountryfan on Jan 22, 2004 20:48:34 GMT -5
I have Population Me. I like it. I need to pick-up the In Other Words CD. You will love in other words. Don't know if you knew about the hidden track that is on his under the cover's cd at least I think it is that one he does a cover of the Jimmie Rodger's song "T for Texas that is awesome. that song is on in other words too but this time it isn't hidden. |
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Post by Wildrider on Jan 25, 2004 16:55:51 GMT -5
I didn't actually BUY In Other's Words because I have all the tracks from other CDs (including the supposedly "never before released" track, Louisville, which is on the Reprise Please Baby box set. The only really new thing is making T For Texas its own track; on Under The Covers it's not really a separate hidden track -- it's a part of the final track, North to Alaska, so unless you have a way to separate the two songs into two tracks, it stays as just one. So in a roundabout way, I have both albums. I'm just crazy about Population Me, but I'm starting to get embarrassed about saying about each new Dwight release that it's his "best ever."  |
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Post by SanAntonioMike on Jan 26, 2004 8:55:08 GMT -5
Since I'm married to a Dwight fanatic as bad as WR <grin>, we have all thsoe tracks, too, but I expect we'll be picking up the "In Others Words" eventually. "Population Me" is a pretty decent disc. I'm gone on "Exception to the Rule." Great fun to play. |
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Post by lmofle on Jan 26, 2004 12:19:21 GMT -5
Since I'm married to a Dwight fanatic as bad as WR <grin>, we have all thsoe tracks, too, but I expect we'll be picking up the "In Others Words" eventually. "Population Me" is a pretty decent disc. I'm gone on "Exception to the Rule." Great fun to play. Exception was the first one I had heard by him...tabbed it out the minute I heard it...very cool!! |
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Post by SanAntonioMike on Jan 28, 2004 11:06:30 GMT -5
Exception was the first one I had heard by him...tabbed it out the minute I heard it...very cool!! Pretty much the same here. There's some terrific tracks on that one. "Back of Your Hand" is one of the most impressive country ballads I've heard in a long time. |
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Post by lmofle on Jan 30, 2004 13:29:01 GMT -5
Pretty much the same here. There's some terrific tracks on that one. "Back of Your Hand" is one of the most impressive country ballads I've heard in a long time. The intro sound is real cool and very easy BUT he tunes down a full step to play that and if you are tuned standard, you have to capo to get the right sound but it's not quite exact. I have a guy who wants me to tab all the fingerpicking, which is fine, I just don't feel like tuning down! |
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Post by SanAntonioMike on Jan 30, 2004 14:58:09 GMT -5
The intro sound is real cool and very easy BUT he tunes down a full step to play that and if you are tuned standard, you have to capo to get the right sound but it's not quite exact. I have a guy who wants me to tab all the fingerpicking, which is fine, I just don't feel like tuning down! It is a cool sound. It's actually not Dwight playing it, which surprised me when I read the credits -- I was pretty sure he had the chops to do it, but it's someone else. I usually keep tuned to standard because it always seems to take a century to get it back into tune whenever I pull down a step or two. |
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Post by lmofle on Jan 31, 2004 9:47:45 GMT -5
It is a cool sound. It's actually not Dwight playing it, which surprised me when I read the credits -- I was pretty sure he had the chops to do it, but it's someone else. I usually keep tuned to standard because it always seems to take a century to get it back into tune whenever I pull down a step or two. Exactly!! I will do it when trying to get a particularly hard one (the hardest I've tabbed so far has been Come and Go Blues by Hank Jr (love the intro on that song)...it's in open D tuning and the chords are chords I ain't never heard of but it fits pretty close! I am surprised DY wasn't playing it because he is a good rhythm picker and perfect for the finger picking onthat song... |
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Post by SanAntonioMike on Feb 1, 2004 22:53:46 GMT -5
Exactly!! I will do it when trying to get a particularly hard one (the hardest I've tabbed so far has been Come and Go Blues by Hank Jr (love the intro on that song)...it's in open D tuning and the chords are chords I ain't never heard of but it fits pretty close! I am surprised DY wasn't playing it because he is a good rhythm picker and perfect for the finger picking onthat song... I've been playing for a long time, but those weird-ass chords ALWAYS give me a moment's pause. Sometimes when I'm listening to a song that sounds "off" I'll just put it in a key I can understand and deal with a few bar chords to get it. According to the credits, a picker named Al Bonhomme (he's picked with Dwight before, and Danni Leigh) is playing acoustic on "Back Of Your Hand," and listening closer, I would guess it's a fingerpicking issue; I've never seen Dwight not use a flat pick, and speaking as a flat picker myself, I sound rather amatuerish when I try a complicated finger picking, and would rather trust to an expert if I'm serious about the sound. |
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Post by Mr._Shooter on Nov 24, 2004 20:17:53 GMT -5
Pretty much the same here. There's some terrific tracks on that one. "Back of Your Hand" is one of the most impressive country ballads I've heard in a long time. Believe it or not, I actually heard this album front-to-back for the first time very recently (we're talking about a gift from a co-worker who DESPISES country music, so clearly the time-line makes sense  ;D  ). Anyhow, "Back of Your Hand" is probably the best song I've heard in a dog's age - any genre. Excuse me, I know how Nashville works - but how in the name of Samuel did this miss becoming a RADIO hit?!!!!  Anyhow, I apologize for being so very late to the game on this. Politics got in the way (and I'm not alone, if you take a look at this website  ). |
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Post by SanAntonioMike on Feb 27, 2005 22:29:15 GMT -5
Nashville works - but how in the name of Samuel did this miss becoming a RADIO hit?!!!! Anyhow, I apologize for being so very late to the game on this. Politics got in the way (and I'm not alone, if you take a look at this website ). No problem on the late thing. You may have noticed that a bit of time tends to go by between one of my appearances and the next (I hadn't realized it'd been before the holidays, last time I cruised by. Where did the months go?)... ANYWAY, what I heard about the radio thing was, and this freaked me out, was that radio didn't think it was "good enough" and shipped it back (this after it was already in rotation on CMT and GAC). From what I understand, the folks at Koch blinked and shipped out "Late Great Golden State" as the second single, and that one sadly tanked. I don't understand radio, much less country radio... |
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Post by Mr._Shooter on Mar 1, 2005 23:51:48 GMT -5
No problem on the late thing. You may have noticed that a bit of time tends to go by between one of my appearances and the next (I hadn't realized it'd been before the holidays, last time I cruised by. Where did the months go?)... ANYWAY, what I heard about the radio thing was, and this freaked me out, was that radio didn't think it was "good enough" and shipped it back (this after it was already in rotation on CMT and GAC). From what I understand, the folks at Koch blinked and shipped out "Late Great Golden State" as the second single, and that one sadly tanked. I don't understand radio, much less country radio... SAM, old friend, good to see you passing through again. You may be late of Texas, but you definitely have the "rodeo man" thing down to a science. Anyhow, Dwight Yoakam NOT GOOD ENOUGH? I know there are more important things to worry about in this country , but does that mean we have to put with crap explanations like that?!!!! I mean, I can put up with the typical "doesn't appeal to this subset" explanation, but a "not good enough"? Simply atrocious. Is it any wonder that, in the last, oh, 6 months, I haven't spent one minute listening to country radio? Part of me is afraid that I'm missing some good new artists, but the MAJORITY of me is satisfied that my CD collection represents worthy "filler." ;D |
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Post by SanAntonioMike on Mar 10, 2005 20:40:49 GMT -5
SAM, old friend, good to see you passing through again. You may be late of Texas, but you definitely have the "rodeo man" thing down to a science. Anyhow, Dwight Yoakam NOT GOOD ENOUGH? I know there are more important things to worry about in this country , but does that mean we have to put with crap explanations like that?!!!! I mean, I can put up with the typical "doesn't appeal to this subset" explanation, but a "not good enough"? Simply atrocious. Is it any wonder that, in the last, oh, 6 months, I haven't spent one minute listening to country radio? Part of me is afraid that I'm missing some good new artists, but the MAJORITY of me is satisfied that my CD collection represents worthy "filler." ;D Well, I tell ya, good buddy, I don't claim to understand one bit of what radio execs think. Apparently, if I were in the radio business, I'd be poor as a church mouse, 'cause I don't understand how this "bottom line" thing works at all. I always thought "give the listeners what they want" would, you know, bring in listeners. What do I know? |
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