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Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years
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- 90,401 plays
- 13 favs
- 24 shares
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- Dwight Yoakam
- Released 2002
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songs
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- 25
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Carmelita
- 03:25
- 534 plays
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- 26
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Suspicious Minds [Live]
- 06:55
- 530 plays
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- 27
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Doin' What I Did
- 03:26
- 389 plays
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- 28
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Hey Little Girl
- 02:31
- 360 plays
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- 29
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Ain't That Lonely Yet
- 03:18
- 753 plays
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- 30
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A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
- 04:29
- 794 plays
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- 31
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Try Not to Look So Pretty
- 02:55
- 369 plays
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- 32
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Pocket of a Clown
- 02:57
- 640 plays
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- 33
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Home for Sale
- 03:38
- 471 plays
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- 34
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Fast as You
- 04:47
- 842 plays
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- 35
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King of Fools
- 04:05
- 411 plays
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- 36
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Holding Things Together
- 02:37
- 335 plays
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- 37
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Nothing
- 03:52
- 358 plays
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- 38
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Don't Be Sad
- 03:20
- 329 plays
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- 39
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Sorry You Asked?
- 03:23
- 472 plays
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- 40
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Gone (That'll Be Me)
- 02:48
- 423 plays
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- 41
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Claudette
- 02:55
- 404 plays
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- 42
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Baby Don't Go
- 04:00
- 645 plays
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- 43
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Train in Vain
- 03:22
- 352 plays
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- 44
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Rapid City, South Dakota
- 02:49
- 306 plays
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- 45
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Only Want You More
- 03:22
- 292 plays
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- 46
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Same Fool
- 03:01
- 342 plays
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- 47
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Things Change
- 03:45
- 850 plays
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- 48
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These Arms
- 03:31
- 318 plays
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- 49
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A Long Way Home
- 02:55
- 295 plays
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- 50
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Crazy Little Thing Called Love
- 02:21
- 505 plays
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- 51
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Thinking About Leaving
- 03:55
- 618 plays
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- 52
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New San Antonio Rose
- 03:03
- 270 plays
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- 53
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Two Doors Down [Acoustic]
- 04:38
- 416 plays
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- 54
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Bury Me [Acoustic]
- 03:12
- 327 plays
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- 55
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Love Caught Up to Me
- 03:50
- 339 plays
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- 56
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What Do You Know About Love
- 02:56
- 262 plays
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- 57
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Free to Go
- 04:48
- 320 plays
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- 58
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A Place to Cry
- 04:35
- 301 plays
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- 59
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I Want You to Want Me
- 03:27
- 401 plays
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- 60
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Alright, I'm Wrong
- 04:16
- 336 plays
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- 61
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Who at the Door Is Standing
- 02:32
- 264 plays
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- 62
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The First Thing Smokin'
- 03:40
- 251 plays
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- 63
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I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
- 04:13
- 340 plays
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Louisville [#]
- 03:03
- 243 plays
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- 65
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Sittin' Pretty [#]
- 02:24
- 247 plays
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- 66
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Mercury Blues [#]
- 02:26
- 271 plays
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- 67
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This Drinkin' Will Kill Me [#]
- 03:11
- 292 plays
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- 68
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It Won't Hurt [#]
- 03:46
- 263 plays
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I'll Be Gone [#]
- 03:25
- 293 plays
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Floyd County [#]
- 02:37
- 247 plays
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- 71
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You're the One [#]
- 04:02
- 253 plays
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Twenty Years [#]
- 03:02
- 208 plays
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- 73
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Please Daddy [#]
- 03:19
- 247 plays
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Miner's Prayer [#]
- 02:43
- 222 plays
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- 75
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I Sang Dixie [#]
- 03:45
- 308 plays
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Bury Me [#]
- 03:00
- 245 plays
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- 77
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Golden Ring [#]
- 03:15
- 369 plays
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- 78
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Take Me [#]
- 02:20
- 296 plays
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- 79
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Sin City [#]
- 04:02
- 274 plays
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Truckin' [Live][#]
- 07:21
- 263 plays
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Grand Tour [Live][#]
- 03:41
- 316 plays
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- 82
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Oh, Lonesome Me [Live][#]
- 03:29
- 465 plays
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- 83
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Today I Started Loving You Again [Live][#]
- 04:29
- 291 plays
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Mystery Train [Live][#]
- 03:11
- 322 plays
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- 85
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Can't You Hear Me Callin' [Live][#]
- 03:19
- 418 plays
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- 86
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Heartaches by the Number [Live][#]
- 03:41
- 390 plays
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- 87
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My Bucket's Got a Hole in It [Live][#]
- 04:12
- 343 plays
album review
Randy Travis sold more records and George Strait was a purer country singer, but Dwight Yoakam was as influential as either on country music in the '80s. A Kentucky-born, Ohio-raised refugee from Nashville, he headed out to California where he managed to play Bakersfield country for L.A. punks, laying the groundwork for the Americana movement of the late '80s and '90s by not only revitalizing classic country from honky tonks to country-pop ballads through his traditionalist readings, but treating rock songs in a similar fashion. Nowhere is this more apparent than on Rhino's excellent four-disc box set Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years, a superb chronicling of his time at Reprise/Warner Records. What makes this set so successful is that it doesn't focus simply on the hits, though they're all here. Instead of just the hits, they're interlaced with key album tracks, covers, duets, and songs cut for compilations, all necessary to understanding Yoakam's music and his influence. Take his superlative duet with Flaco Jimenez on Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" and how it blurs the lines between country, punk, classic rock, and singer/songwriters, creating the sound that would come to be known as Americana. Nearly every alt-country artist sought this expert balance of self-consciously classic instrumentation, contemporary subject matter, stylized yet sincere delivery, and clean production -- a delicate balance many sought to replicate, yet few succeeded in capturing. It's a brilliant moment, but one that wasn't on any Dwight album, and this rightly presents it, among other rarities, as key parts of his legacy. Among the revelations on Reprise Please Baby is that Yoakam had this balance perfected from the beginning, from before he released his landmark debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.; his ten-track demo from 1981 is included here on the all-previously unreleased fourth disc, and it holds its own among his best albums in both its songwriting and performance. This entire disc -- which also contains two fine duets with Kelly Willis and a string of covers, recorded anywhere from 1986 to 2002, all very good, with a nimble "Oh Lonesome Me" and a rip-roaring "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" standing as particular highlights -- makes it necessary for collectors, but the set wouldn't be much if it was just for the completists. What makes it such a success is that it presents Yoakam's full achievement through a sharp, thorough examination of his prodigious output, turning in a convincing case for his greatness while being a hell of an entertaining listen. He produced his share of great albums, but Reprise Please Baby tells everything country fans of any stripe need to know. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide
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