Dwight Yoakam performs at the Nightly Concert on the Vault Concert Stage LP Field Sunday, June 8 in Downtown Nashville during the 2008 CMA Music Festival. Photographer: John Russell / CMA
Dec. 2, 2008 — Dwight Yoakam has been busy on the set. He’s currently on the big screen in the movie Four Christmases, and he’s got two more pictures on the way: Crank 2: High Voltage and The Last Rites Of Ransom Pride, which he shot in September in Canada.
"I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to do both" music and movies, he told The Las Vegas Sun.
Exactly when new music will appear remains unknown.
"I don’t have a studio album scheduled as yet," he said. "But I’ve been writing. Music is part of my everyday life."
Dwight’s most recent album, Dwight Sings Buck, is a tribute to his late friend, Buck Owens. Appropriately, Dwight plans to close 2008 with a show at the Bakersfield club Buck built, the Crystal Palace.
"His was the embodiment of the quintessential California country honky-tonk sound," Dwight said, "which he captured on record at a time when most of the pop and a great deal of country music had gone to using studio musicians for records but used touring bands for live performances. Often they weren’t the same configuration of folks."
Dwight’s affinity for California country is also displayed in bookstores these days. He wrote the foreword to a new biography, Hot Burritos: The True Story Of The Flying Burrito Brothers. It’s authored by John Einarson with Chris Hillman, who was a member of the Burritos as well as the Byrds and the Desert Rose Band.
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