Legendary Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens Sets from Austin City Limits to be Issued
On October 23, 1988, Austin City Limits went Bakersfield for one legendary night when an upcoming hot shot California country throwback traditionalist with jellyspine hips named Dwight Yoakam took the stage, and so did the man that he saw as his primary influence, the legendary Buck Owens. Two legendary tapings of the iconic music show occurred that night, and for the first time dedicated fans of the two West Coast country legends will get to see the tapings in their entirety, and own both sets of the now classic live recordings on vinyl.
Dwight Yoakam, Live from Austin, TX, and Buck Owens, Live From Austin, TX will both be issued on August 11th in 180 gram vinyl pressed from remastered original source files, as well as in CD/DVD combos remixed and remastered in 5.1 surround sound, including never-before-heard-or-seen songs from the tapings. The night was also made that much more special when Dwight Yoakam guested on Buck Owens’ performance of “Under Your Spell Again,” and Buck and Flaco Jiménez guested on Dwight’s performance of “Streets of Bakersfield.”
“Twenty-something Dwight Yoakam was literally the new kid in country music when he stepped onto the ‘Austin City Limits’ stage in October 1988,” says ACL founder and producer Terry Lickona. “But even then, as he has ever since, he was doing things his own way … When Dwight was playing a fair in Bakersfield, he stopped by Buck’s office and coaxed him into playing a few songs with him onstage that night. The result was a lasting friendship and their historic duet, ‘Streets of Bakersfield.’”
Both albums are being issued through New West Records. The Dwight Yoakam album is a 2-disc, 3-sided LP collection, and the Buck Owens album is single disc, 2-sided LP.
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Dwight Yoakam, Live from Austin, TX Track List:
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. Honky Tonk Man
9. Streets Of Bakersfield
10. Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room
11. Always Late With Your Kisses
12. Little Sister
13. I Sang Dixie
14. This Drinkin’ Will Kill Me
Buck Owens, Live from Austin, TX Track List
1. Act Naturally
2. Together Again
3. Love’s Gonna Live Here
4. Crying Time
5. Tiger By The Tail
6. A-11
7. Hot Dog
8. Put Another Quarter In The Jukebox
9. Memphis
10. Under Your Spell Again (With Dwight Yoakam)
11. Johnny B. Goode
June 24, 2017 @ 10:50 am
Man, this is awesome. I wish there were more ACL episode available to purchase or stream. I’ve always wonder why these aren’t available. Too many moving parts with labels and copyrights?
As a music fan, there’s nothing better than watching ACL. Only complaint would be lack of local acts and removing London homesick blues as the theme song. They use to do a good job at showcasing the local music, not so much anymore. But, it’s still a top notch show for live music.
June 24, 2017 @ 1:43 pm
Dwight was 32 in 1988, not “twenty something”.
June 24, 2017 @ 2:32 pm
Terry Lickona has earned enough street cred to be a year or two off. Perhaps.
June 25, 2017 @ 7:06 am
This is what sticks with you from the story? Really?
June 24, 2017 @ 2:03 pm
Yeah, it’s kind of nit picking the guy’s memory but he wasn’t really the new kid either as he was on his third album and had about a half dozen top ten hits by the summer of 1988.
But anyway, I get happy whenever I hear ‘Streets Of Bakersfield’. Two unique stylists recording a really cool, fun song.
June 24, 2017 @ 4:33 pm
The duet of “Under Your Spell Again” is underrated. But the “Streets” duet is just a big, great song. I know it from about 2 notes in and am always thrilled to hear it.
June 24, 2017 @ 4:58 pm
The steel on Together Again is so silky smooth from that performance.
June 24, 2017 @ 5:13 pm
I’m getting those for sure. Dwight was my gateway to country music around ’86. Now release the complete 2013 NIN ACL show!
June 24, 2017 @ 6:30 pm
He was my intro to country as well. In 1989-90 I worked at a Wherehouse Records store in California and would play Guitars, Cadillacs and Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches on the store’s stereo during every one of my shifts. I’m part of the reason they sold so well! Still listen to all three today. Looking forward to these ACL releases.
June 24, 2017 @ 5:33 pm
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June 26, 2017 @ 11:11 am
Got some reefer madness going, Lil Dale?
June 24, 2017 @ 6:46 pm
I’ve had the Dwight portion on CD (ripped to MP3) for years. It’s one of the only live albums I listen to regularly.
June 24, 2017 @ 10:23 pm
This is cool. Just saw Dwight tonight actually, what a great show.
June 25, 2017 @ 1:07 pm
Sorry for being off topic again Trigger…
But I think both you and many of your readers will find this interesting. It’s
an article in the InquIsitor about Kris Kristofferson’s performance at the Glastonbury festival.
It also shows two videos there he’s singing “Sunday Morning Coming Dawn” and “For the Good Times”. I alway liked Elvis cover of “For the Good Times” best. But damn it, he can sing it rather good himself for someone being 81 years old…
http://www.inquisitr.com/opinion/4321607/johnny-depp-and-brad-pitt-help-make-kris-kristoffersons-performance-a-hit-at-glastonbury/
June 25, 2017 @ 1:21 pm
Forgot… He is also singing a rather, (for his age), powerful “The Silver Tongued Devil and I”
June 26, 2017 @ 11:14 am
Kris is one of the most underrated entertainers. Everybody knows he can write, but in concert he makes his songs come alive.
June 27, 2017 @ 8:08 am
I agree he has charisma. I loved his singing when he was with The Highwaymen. He may not have the best of voices. But he can really use it. He is doing what I call “singing the words”. What I mean by that is that some singer just sings lyrics to a tune, while trying too get their voices sounds as good as possible, but by doing so, they sometimes loses the lyrics and meaning of the song, because people only hear a “beautiful voice”. But Kris lägger lägger verkligen fokus på orden. That’s in my view why his songs “comes alive”.
I hope that I wrote make sense. I have difficulties with express myself…
June 27, 2017 @ 9:57 am
No, I get it. I agree. That voice can tell a story on it’s own. The Pilgrim, Chapter 33, for instance, would have zero power without Kristofferson’s gravely voice. Made my brother promise me he’d play it at my funeral, if I go first.
June 27, 2017 @ 12:09 pm
Sorry saw now that I wrote one line In Swedish. Again…
*”But Kris lägger lägger verkligen fokus på orden.” translate into:
“But Kris really focus on the words.”
July 6, 2017 @ 3:56 am
Here’s two video links you might be interested in.The first one shows Kris performance at The Glastonbury festival in full. The second video show the first 28 minutes of his concert in Gothenburg.
Then I was looking at these video I hit me how much good lyrics mean. I mean it’s because of the quality of his songs that makes people come and see him despite he lost most of voice…
Do you think anyone will come and listen to Sam Hunt sing “Body Like a Backroad” when he gets 81? No way! By then that song will be dead, burried and forgotten along with other crappy songs, just as it deserve to be….
Glastonbury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A80SmiQPoD0
Gothenburg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR_CvnhlN_0
June 25, 2017 @ 2:18 pm
I was trying to find my promo, because I don’t think New West originally put this ACL series out ten years ago. I’m not even sure if we bought any for the retail stores. But, I remember the Steve Earle ACL. And few other artist in the series – I remember the digi-packs.
June 25, 2017 @ 3:29 pm
You know what’s crazy, The Austin city limits show proved that bucks music was timeless. Honestly I think Buck sounded better than Dwight despite the fact that Buck was significantly older. His band was on fire. I love Dwight Yoakam, he’s the reason I got into country music and buck owens in general. I mean listen to “Loves gonna Live Here” by buck on this disc and if you’re not smiling then you don’t like country music.
June 25, 2017 @ 3:38 pm
Oct 23 is Dwight’s birthday and mine as well. Love him and Buck. Def need to own these.
July 1, 2017 @ 12:19 pm
These are great shows. I think all Austin City Limits shows should be put on dvd or cd. They are very historic shows!!!!!!!!!!!
July 9, 2017 @ 1:54 pm
Oh wow, this is good stuff!
Thanks for letting us know. 😀
July 27, 2017 @ 8:28 am
Buck Owens has always been the real deal. Dwight Yoakam (Doyle lol!) is a country great in his own right.
August 12, 2017 @ 7:18 pm
“including never-before-heard-or-seen songs from the tapings” When these were released last decade (2005?) the set lists were as they are on these re-issues. Not sure what has not been heard before? Any help?