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Track Listing
DISC 1: GUITARS, CADILLACS, ETC., ETC.:
1. This Drinkin' Will Kill Me
2. It Won't Hurt
3. I'll Be Gone
4. Floyd Country
5. You're the One
6. Twenty Years
7. Please Daddy
8. Miner's Prayer
9. I Sang Dixie
10. Bury Me
11. Honky Tonk Man
12. It Won't Hurt
13. I'll Be Gone
14. South of Cincinnati
15. Bury Me - (with Maria McKee)
16. Guitars, Cadillacs
17. Twenty Years
18. Ring of Fire
19. Miner's Prayer
20. Heartaches by the Number
DISC 2:
1. Honky Tonk Man
2. Guitars, Cadillacs
3. Rocky Road Blues
4. Heartaches by the Number
5. I'll Be Gone
6. It Won't Hurt
7. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It
8. South of Cincinnati
9. Mystery Train
10. Ring of Fire
11. Since I Started Drinking Again
Album Notes
GUITARS, CADILLACS, ETC., ETC. is an expanded version of an EP of the same title released on Oak Records in 1984.
Personnel: Dwight Yoakam (vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals); Maria McKee (vocals); Pete Anderson (electric guitar, 6-string bass); Jay Dee Maness, Ed Black (pedal steel); David Mansfield (mandolin, dobro); Brantley Kearns (fiddle, background vocals); Glen D. Hardin, Gene Taylor (piano); J.D. Foster (bass, background vocals); Jeff Donavan (drums).
Engineers: Dusty Wakeman (tracks 1, 5-6, 10); Brian Levi (tracks 2-4, 7-9).
Recorded at Excalibur Studio, Studio City, California and Capitol Studio B, Hollywood, California.
Includes a bonus disc.
Personnel: Dwight Yoakam (vocals, guitar); Jerry McGee (guitar); Jay Dee Maness (pedal steel guitar); David Mansfield (mandolin); Glen D. Hardin (piano); Robert Wilson (bass guitar); Stu Perry (drums).
Recording information: 1981 - 1986.
Just as Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson had done a decade-plus earlier, Dwight Yoakam arrived out of left field in the mid '80s with a fresh, honest sound that breathed fresh air into what had become a bland, commercialized country music scene. The later-for-the-b.s. New Traditionalist movement had already gotten under way via such artists as Rosanne Cash and John Anderson, but Yoakam hammered the message home in a major way, appealing to the pop/rock audience with his swaggering, bad-boy image and visceral approach.
GUITARS, CADILLACS, ETC., ETC. set the template Yoakam would follow for much of his career. The album is heavily influenced by the mid-'60s Bakersfield sound of Merle Haggard and (especially) Buck Owens. Some of the songs here are updated versions of old-school country classics (Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire," Johnny Horton's "Honky Tonk Man"), but even Yoakam's original tunes sound like they were cut from the same vintage cloth.
Industry Reviews
4 stars out of 5 -- [Yoakam] mixed a folkie wistfulness with fast-moving honky-tonk drive, pushing country ahead a two-step or two.
GUITARS, CADILLACS remains, more than two decades on, a remarkable -- even essential -- record.
This is a darn good release for Yoakam fans who really want to get a sense of his output and energy back when he made a name for himself...
3 stars out of 5 -- Dwight Yoakam's debut was a fantastically twangy blend of tears, beers, and blue-collar grit...
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