Product details
Title: Gone
Performer: Dwight Yoakam
Genre: Country
Sub Genre: Contemporary Country
Release Date: 11/1995
Recomended Retail Price: 15.99 GBP
Original Release Year: 1995
Label / Distributor: Reprise / Cinram Logistics
Producer: Pete Anderson
Pieces in Set: 1
Studio / Live: Studio
Stereo: Stereo
Format: Performer
EAN: 93624605126
Catalogue Number: 9362460512
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Additional notes
Album Notes: Personnel: Dwight Yoakam (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars); James E. Bond Jr. (conductor); Dean Parks (acoustic guitar); Pete Anderson (electric guitar, electric sitar, harmonica); Tom Brumley (lap steel & pedal steel guitars); Scott Joss (fiddle); Lon Price (tenor saxophone); Greg Smith (baritone saxophone); Lee Thornburg (trumpet, trombone); Skip Edwards (accordion, piano, organ, keyboards); Taras Prodaniuk, Dusty Wakeman (bass); Jim Christie (drums); Tempo (percussion); Jim Lauderdale, Joy Lynn White (background vocals).
The Rembrandts: Phillip Solem, Danny Wilde (background vocals).
GONE was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Country Album. "Nothing" was nominated for a 1997 Grammy for Best Male Country Vocal Performance.
Dwight Yoakam always had an obsession with tradition. What has changed in the decade since he debuted with a famously pure honky-tonk homage to George Jones, Hank Williams and Buck Owens is his idea of what tradition is. For Yoakam, it now includes '50s rock, The Beatles, Cajun music and, most audacious of all, Memphis soul.
Every song on GONE is pure to a fault. "Nothing" acquires its soul through a Southern organ, call-and-response horns, and perfectly placed strings; "Baby Why Not" features a blisteringly dead-on Cajun accordion; "Never Hold You" is a '60s guitar-rock raveup that employs the voices of pop revivalists the Rembrandts; and, with the exception of its Tex-Mex horn solo, "Sorry You Asked," a honky-tonker in which a guy bores a friend to death with the mundane details of why his girlfriend left him, is a dead ringer for recent George Jones.
What's not pure is the sweep of the whole album, which ends up sounding unlike either roots-rock or traditionalist country. GONE sounds more like a roots-of-everything record. Yoakam and producer/guitarist Pete Anderson put it together with a vibrancy and urgency that makes it seem less of a look back, and more of a step forward for country music.
Album Reviews: Village Voice (2/20/96) - Ranked #40 in Village Voice's 1995 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.
Spin (12/95, p.87) - 7 (out of 10) - "...most tries at Memphian miscegenation...have led to limp handshakes over a fence. But where Don Was failed, L.A.'s head hick succeeds....Who'd have picked this ratty little gunslinger to make a single too black for country radio?..."
Musician (1/96, pp.87-88) - "...he not only reveres this music's sacred Carter Family/Jimmie Rodgers past, but is willing to test its stylistic limits to push into the millenium, a chance few peers are taking....startling, but largely on target..."
Entertainment Weekly (11/3/95, p.66) - "...his most ambitious effort yet..."
- Rating: B+
Titles on disc 1
1.: Sorry You Asked
2.: This Much I Know
3.: One More Night
4.: Heart Of Stone
5.: Baby Why Not
6.: Never Hold You
7.: Don't Be Sad
8.: Gone (That'll Be Me)
9.: Nothing
10.: Near You
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