Track Listing

1. Guitars, Cadillacs
2. Smoke Along The Track
3. What I Don't Know
4. Home Of The Blues
5. 1,000 Miles
6. Please, Please Baby
7. Little Ways
8. Hony Tonk Man
9. Streets Of Bakersfield
10. Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
11. Always Late With Your Kisses
12. Little Sister
13. I Sang Dixie
14. This Drinking Will Kill Me

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #169820 in Music
• Released on: 2005-11-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Live, Original recording remastered

Album Description
Dwight Yoakam live from the Austin City Limits TV studio. Taped in October 1988, this CD features many of Dwight Yoakam's signature songs and includes many songs not included the original broadcast.

Amazon.com
Despite Dwight Yoakam's renown as a dynamic live performer and the reputation of the Austin City Limits series for bringing out the best in the artists it presents, this 1988 performance (also available on DVD) is surprisingly low-key. Featuring the fiddle of Scott Joss and the guitar of bandleader Pete Anderson, the band is in fine form throughout, but the pacing tends more toward mid-tempo melancholy ("1,000 Miles," "Always Late with Your Kisses," "I Sang Dixie") than the harder-edged honky-tonk that is Yoakam's strength. As special treats for the Austin crowd, Buck Owens and conjunto accordion kingpin Flaco Jimenez join Yoakam on "Streets of Bakerfield," while the cover of Elvis Presley's "Little Sister" gets a live-wire surge from Anderson's guitar. The taping otherwise seems to capture Yoakam within a transitional lull in his career. --Don McLeese

Customer Reviews

Nice live music, but sounds a lot like the studio versions
This is a nice album of early live hits at Austin City Limits. The only draw back is many of the songs sound very similar to to the studio versions. Compared to the DVD (which I liked better) much of the dialog with the audience was cut out of the CD. Dwight fans will like this, but it's hard to recommend it to anyone else. It's okay, but nothing spectacular. Dwight's other live album is much better and easier to reccomend. A newer Dwight Yoakam live album would have been a better CD by New West Records.

Straight out of Dwight's good ole' days!!!!!
I love this album. It features Dwight singing in his pristine 80s vocals, which I consider his height. This is the best live album I own. It's a smokin' good deal at [...] for this vintage Austin City Limits 1988 treasure that has been newly released from New West Records. The only drawbacks for me is that it didn't have my favorite song on it "Long White Cadillac", which he probably hadn't recorded yet anyway. This is a perfect collection of his early and best work, live.

Dwight Yoakam - Live from Austin City Limits
Dwight is Excellent, Austin city limit's always has the Greatest!