Dwight's Used Records

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.[2]

Dwight's Used Records
Compilation album by
Dwight Yoakam
ReleasedJune 29, 2004 (2004-06-29)
GenreCountry
Length50:37
LabelAudium
ProducerPete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam chronology
In Others' Words
(2003)		 Dwight's Used Records
(2004)		 The Very Best of Dwight Yoakam
(2004)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

Recording

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 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who also back Yoakam on the Flying Burrito Brothers’s "Wheels." (Yoakam covered another Gram Parsons-Chris Hillman classic, "Sin City," as a duet with k.d. lang on his first greatest hits package in 1989.) He does a typically stellar job of interpreting songs by legendary country artists like Webb Pierce ("If You Were Me (And I Were You)"), Waylon Jennings ("Stop the World (And Let Me Off)"), and Johnny Cash ("Understand Your Man"). Other songs have a more contemporary sound, like the duet "Waiting," which Yoakam wrote with Deana Carter for her 2002 release I’m Just a Girl and boasts a George Harrison-Traveling Wilburys slide guitar solo. Yoakam was also a guest on Heather Myles’s LP Sweet Talk and Good Lies the same year, sharing vocal duties on the mariachi-flavoured Vegas wedding song "Little Chapel."

Although primarily recognized as a country singer-songwriter, Yoakam has made no secret of his love for 1960s and 1970s AM pop and rock radio, from the Beatles to the Monkees, and this likely explains his cover of the Goffin-King 1962 hit "Loco-Motion" and ZZ Top’s "I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide," (Yoakam and ZZ Top guitar ace Billy Gibbons composed a song for Yoakam's ill-fated 2001 film South of Heaven- West of Hell.) The closing number, a cover of the John Prine classic "Paradise," was a perfect fit for Yoakam, a Kentucky native himself who covered similar subject matter in his own songs like "Readin’, Rightin’, Rt. 23" and "Bury Me."

Reception

Dwight’s Used Records was Yoakam's third covers album since 1997 and was not a commercial success. Mark Deming of AllMusic opines, "Few if any major country artists of the 1980s and '90s had as consistent a run of strong recordings as Dwight Yoakam, and this compilation proves that even the material he gave away was better than what most of his peers were sending out as top-shelf product."[3]

Track listing
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."Stop the World (And Let Me Off)"Carl Belew, W. S. Stevenson3:08
2."Down Where the River Bends" (with Ralph Stanley)Ralph Stanley2:55
3."Mercury Blues"K. C. Douglas, Robert Geddins2:29
4."Waiting" (with Deana Carter)Deana Carter, Dwight Yoakam4:37
5."Some Dark Holler" (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)Traditional3:20
6."If You Were Me (And I Were You)"Webb Pierce, Frank Miller2:50
7."Little Chapel" (with Heather Myles)Heather Myles2:57
8."The Loco-Motion"Carole King, Gerry Goffin3:44
9."Miner's Prayer" (with Ralph Stanley)Yoakam3:13
10."Understand Your Man"Johnny Cash3:13
11."Wheels" (with the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons3:16
12."I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide"Billy Gibbons, Dusty Hill, Frank Beard4:14
13."Paradise"John Prine6:24
14."I Said (Paradise Reprise)"Prine4:17

Personnel

Chart performance
Chart (2004) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 57
U.S. Billboard Top Independent Albums 43
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References
  1. Deming, Mark. "Dwight's Used Records review". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  2. "Dwight's Used Records Charts". Allmusic. Retrieved 3 March 2011.
  3. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "Los Lobos - Biography". AllMusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved April 1, 2012.
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