Dwight Yoakam - Population Me Vinyl LP Ocean Blue Colour 2020

Ocean Blue Colour Vinyl

Tracklist:

1. The Late Great Golden State
2. No Such Thing
3. Fair to Midland
4. An Exception to the Rule
5. Population Me
6. Stayin' Up Late [Thinkin' About It]
7. Trains and Boats and Planes
8. If Teardrops Were Diamonds
9. I'd Avoid Me Too
10. The Back of Your Hand

Seventeen years into his recording career, having ventured into everything from rockabilly to Clash covers, Dwight Yoakam is far past the Buck Owens-carbon copy stage. Though a couple of songs on POPULATION ME do tip their cowboy hat to the classic Bakersfield sound, the album explores a wide variety of Americana styles. The opener "The Late Great Golden State" resembles nothing so much as an early Eagles country-rock classic. At the opposite end of the record, closing tune "The Back of Your Hand" is more of an introspective, singer-songwriter affair. In between, Yoakam teams with none other than Willie Nelson on the powerful broken-hearted ballad "If Teardrops Were Diamonds," and proves himself the reigning king of country self-effacement on "I'd Avoid Me Too."