YouTube: Dwight Yoakam, "Long White Cadillac," libe in Wheeling WV, 06/12/09

[Amerigo Vespucci]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82dikH1le60

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[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. sexy man, he is

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[AwakeAtLast]

7. I think his jeans are 31 Xtra tight!

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Loves me some Dwight Yoakam! And country isn't even my favorite!

[KG]

2. Yoakam is cool. but give me the Blasters version anytime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zpRrcRb5e8&feature=related

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Blaster Dave Alvin also did a killer version on his album "Interstate City."

Amazon's review:

Dave Alvin is one of the half-dozen best rock & roll songwriters of the past 15 years, but it wasn't until 1991 that he learned how to sing. Before that, he made one disappointing solo album and otherwise left the singing chores to his big brother Phil in the Blasters or John Doe in X. Since he finally matured as a vocalist--learning to sing within his Dylanesque limitations rather than trying to sound like the Big Joe Turner he'll never be--Alvin has gone back to those earlier songs and redone them, as if to demonstrate how he heard them in his own head when he first wrote them. He redid seven songs on the 1994 studio, acoustic project "King of California," and he gives five more new life on "Interstate City," recorded live with a rocking band at Austin's Continental Club. The Blasters' "Look Out (It Must Be Love)" gets additional lyrics, a new swing arrangement and Katy Moffatt harmonies; the band's tribute to Franklin Roosevelt, "Jubilee Train," is jammed together with Woody Guthrie's "Do Re Mi" and Chuck Berry's "Promised Land" into a long, raucous medley. The new songs include "Out in California," a blues-shuffle cowritten with Tom Russell; the title track, a film noir recitation over moody, slow blues; and "Mister Lee," an exuberant New Orleans tribute to Alvin's mentor, Little Richard's saxophonist Lee Allen. This doesn't quite match Alvin's seismic, undocumented 1991-92 tour with the Skeletons, but it's the next best thing. --Geoffrey Himes

http://www.amazon.com/Interstate-City-Dave-Alvin/dp/B0000005RS

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[KG]

4. Dave is da' man. i'm a huge fan, but his brother can actually sing.

some songs just work better if Phil's at the mike.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

5. That's the one flaw of the Dave album...

...the playing is red

hot.

The vocals are

not.

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[KG]

6. pretty much sums up his work. his writing and composing is sublime, but

his voice isn't great, and that's not his fault, but he makes it all work for him somehow. works for me.