Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Album: 3 Pears
Bitrate: 253kbps avg
Quality: EAC Secure Mode / LAME 3.98.4 / -V0 / 44.100Khz
Label: Warner Brothers
Genre: Country
Size: 85.77 megs
PlayTime: 0h 45min 14sec total
Rip Date: 2012-10-24
Store Date: 2012-10-19
Track List:
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01. Take Hold of My Hand 3:43
02. Waterfall 3:37
03. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke 3:43
04. Trying 2:55
05. Nothing but Love 3:04
06. It's Never Alright 4:09
07. A Heart Like Mine 3:58
08. Long Way to Go 3:51
09. Missing Heart 4:34
10. 3 Pears 2:46
11. Rock It All Away 4:20
12. Long Way to Go (Reprise) 4:34
Release Notes:
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Over a decorated 25-year career, country music stalwart Dwight Yoakam has never
toed the Nashville line, instead demonstrating an adventurous appetite for power
pop, rockabilly, soul and even punk rock. With a sound far closer to the Flying
Burrito Brothers than, say, Alabama, Yoakam has sometimes lagged behind his
contemporaries in terms of sheer commercial metrics, but his creative
wanderlust has earned him a large and diverse constituency of loyal fans. It is
unlikely that many of them will find themselves disappointed by ô3 Pears,ö his
strong new collection, which is his first full-length album since 2007 and one
of his finest overall.
On the infectious opener, ôTake Hold Of My Hand,ö Yoakam sounds like a
country-fried Roy Orbison, wrapping his rich tenor around a romantic plea that
feels closer to vintage Sun Records than anything on new country radio. A
fantastic rip through the standard ôDim Lights, Thick Smokeö brings the anarchic
feel of similar stylistic shape-shifters NRBQ and wouldnÆt feel out of place on
an Old 97Æs record. Yoakam is equally adroit in tear-in-your-beer weeper mode ù
the moving, soul-inflected break-up ballad ôItÆs Never Alrightö features the
kind of subtly clever chorus that Merle Haggard has made a legendary career out
of: ôThey say it gets better/Well I guess that it might/But even if itÆs
better/ItÆs never alright.ö ItÆs brilliant, but something of an outlier on this
largely rambunctious and celebratory album. Approaching 60, Yoakam has both
deepened with his vintage and somehow managed to lose nothing off his formidable
fastball.