Topic: Dwight Yoakam - French Lick Resort - Indiana

My Wife and I saw Dwight Yoakam last night at the French Lick Resort in Indiana. He was absolutely fantastic.  Terrific young band with Eugene Edwards on lead guitar.  It was high powered rockabilly thru cranked Fender and Vox amps.  The bass player and drummer were a well oiled machine and the vocals were awesome. The baas player and the rhythm guitarist both sang great high harmonies.  They did a killer version of Ring of Fire that sounded real similar to T Rex - Bang A Gong.  It was much more high energy than I thought it would be.  Highly recommended!!!!!!!

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I saw these guys last summer - they have been on my want to see list for a long time - and they did not disappoint.  Love rockabilly, and I honestly don't understand how he manges not to split those jeans!

Sandy

"There's a lot of people that are in so much of a hurry to be, I guess, to be famous or that they don't want to take the time to learn to play and do all that.They'd rather just knock it down off a computer and maybe get on a game show and get famous..That's fine if that's what you want to do.
"We're more old school than that. We like creating the sounds."  - Tom Petty

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I wish I could have seen him there.  Love that resort town.

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HoosierRock wrote:

My Wife and I saw Dwight Yoakam last night at the French Lick Resort in Indiana. He was absolutely fantastic.  Terrific young band with Eugene Edwards on lead guitar.  It was high powered rockabilly thru cranked Fender and Vox amps.  The bass player and drummer were a well oiled machine and the vocals were awesome. The baas player and the rhythm guitarist both sang great high harmonies.  They did a killer version of Ring of Fire that sounded real similar to T Rex - Bang A Gong.  It was much more high energy than I thought it would be.  Highly recommended!!!!!!!

Well then, here's some euphoric recall fer ya, a one two-fer for you two and the others of Dwight Yoakum & Band performing Joe Maphis' "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud Loud Music)" and Johnny Horton's "Honky Tonk Man" at the 2012 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJJ-g_3Z9p0Extremely large crowds makes for long shots and lots of heads...enjoy.  Dwight had cut his hand pretty badly (live), swore and sore pretty loudly, recovered nicely to face technical stuff...these guys held their own with a really good set.  Kind of ironic to play songs about dim lights when you're outdoors, but the smoke was thick of a different fire, and instead of a honky tonk you got a huge festival crowd of many, many thousands...



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Never seen Dwight live, but have some of his music. His former producer/guitarist Pete Anderson put Dwight on the musical map and garnered many Grammy Awards, but something ran amok between them. Dwight still does well on his own, but the hits are no longer there. Some of the best Dwight available is Dwight Live recorded at The Warfield Theater in SF in '95. Pete's guitar work absolutely shines!

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