Dwight Yoakam photo by Cambria Harkey, courtesy of New West Records.
May 13, 2008 — Dwight Yoakam will appear on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on Thursday as the talk show kicks off its seventh season of outdoor concerts.
The appearance is good exposure as he continues promoting the album Dwight Sings Buck, but it also sets a record for Dwight. It will mark the 24th time he’s been on the program since Jay took the reins from Johnny Carson in 1992, and it makes Dwight the artist who’s given the most "Tonight Show" performances during that time. Dwight’s first time on the program after the change of hosts came on March 26, 1993.
That’s not all Dwight’s got on his calendar these days. He’s finished shooting the movie Four Christmases with Mary Steenburgen, Tim McGraw, Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek and others. The picture’s expected to hit theaters in November. He’s also working on Crank 2: High Voltage. And he’s been enlisted for his first appearance at the CMA Music Festival in 20 years. That performance comes on the festival’s closing night, June 8. He’ll be joined at LP Field that evening by Randy Travis, Bucky Covington, Sara Evans, Billy Ray Cyrus and James Otto.