DWIGHT YOAKAM – BUENAS NOCHES FROM A LONELY ROOM LP – Nr MINT COUNTRY

Dwight Yoakam – Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
(Reprise Records  1988  WX193)

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Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than 21 albums and compilations, charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. Yoakam has recorded 5 Billboard #1 Albums, 12 Gold Albums, and 9 Platinum Albums, including the Triple Platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing arts, Yoakam is also the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show.

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third studio album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam’s first (and, as of 2017, only) two No. 1 Hot Country Singles singles. The first was “Streets of Bakersfield,” a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song in 1973. The second was an original composition of Yoakam’s titled “I Sang Dixie.” A third song on the album, “I Got You, also an original composition, peaked at No. 5. The title song, “Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses),” also charted, but only to the No. 46 position.

Tracklist

Personnel

• Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
• Pete Anderson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar, background vocals, percussion; mandolin on “Send Me the Pillow”
• Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
• Al Perkins – Dobro
• Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
• Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar (“Hold On to God”), percussion
• Jeff Donavan – drums
• Don Reed – fiddle
• Skip Edwards – piano
• Scott Joss – mandolin
• Flaco Jiménez – accordion
• Maria McKee – background vocals on “Send Me the Pillow”
• Buck Owens – duet vocals on “Streets of Bakersfield”
• The Lonesome Strangers (Jeff Rymes and Randy Weeks) – background vocals on “Hold On to God”
• Jim Lauderdale – background vocals
• Brantley Kearns – background vocals on “What I Don’t Know”