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- Summary: The first studio album in seven years for the country singer-songwriter features two songs produced by Beck and a song co-written with Robert Ritchie (aka Kid Rock).
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- Record Label: Warner Bros.
- Genre(s): Country, Pop/Rock, Contemporary Country, New Traditionalist, Neo-Traditionalist Country
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Dim Lights, Thick Smoke | |
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Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music Is the only kind of life you'll ever understand Dim lights, thick smoke and loud, loud music You'll... | See the rest of the song lyrics |
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Entertainment WeeklySep 18, 2012Yoakam's first release in seven years is a smashing return to form. [14/21 Sep 2012, p.141]
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Sep 18, 2012It's as fresh as any music he's ever made, and one of his very best albums.
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Sep 18, 2012Though he's capable of being playfully satisfied, Dwight is at his best when he's consumed by yearning.
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Sep 18, 2012The record draws closer to where he started: this music is entirely referential, but doesn't want to be contained. It's got some freelance cool, some autonomous energy.
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Sep 25, 2012It's nothing more--or less--than the latest chapter in his extraordinary, funhouse-mirror version of honky-tonk traditionalism.
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Sep 18, 2012Emerging from California's punk/roots scene, championed by the Blasters and sharing stages with X, he kept it true, while mining the tempest of a formidable rejectionist movement. 3 Pears follows the same map.
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Sep 26, 2012Unshackled, Yoakam casually eschews his established sound for new ones, and although these pop experimentations won't please country music fundamentalists or single-searching radio executives, Yoakam has legitimized himself as an artist.
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