Buenas noches from a lonely room (Dwight Yoakam) (LP 891 - 893)

Dwight Yoakam  Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (CD, Reprise Records, 1988) ****

Dwight Yoakam  If There Was A Way (CD, Reprise Records, 1990) ****  

Dwight Yoakam  This Time (CD, Reprise Records, 1993) *** 

Genre: Country

Places I remember: The Warehouse (Cambridge, NZ)

Fab, and all the other pimply hyperboles: You're The One

Gear costume: Ain't That Lonely Yet, The Streets Of Bakersfield (Buenas Noches)

Active compensatory factors: The third, fourth and fifth studio albums from Dwight see him navigating the late eighties/early nineties with aplomb and continuing the ever so slight moves towards a poppier sound.

He's remarkably consistent with his albums - all are worthwhile for various reasons. Having producer/arranger/ guitarist Pete Anderson on board for these albums (as he was the first two) also helps, plus the musicians are roughly the same as well.

I do prefer the more straight country sounds of the first two albums in this threesome to some of the tracks on This Time. To prove he hasn't strayed too far from his roots though, he ends that album with Lonesome Roads - a glorious slice of pure country.

Where do they all belong? A few more CD's to come yet - three to be precise, as Dwight moves into the late nineties and 2000's.