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Dwight Yoakam: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (Reprise)

James Hunter, Rolling Stone, 5 June 1986

KENTUCKY-BRED singer and songwriter Dwight Yoakam makes his Los Angeles country music get up and go. As he boasts on the Johnny Horton cover that launches Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., Yoakam's a honky-tonk man; it's the only thing that keeps him hanging on. He doesn't cut up much about it, but his dedication to hard country has yielded a focused debut that is lively enough to overcome his own solemnity.

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