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This, again, was a very difficult decision, because of the strength of Dwight Yoakam<\/a>‘s musical and video catalog. In fact it was so difficult I decided I couldn’t contain myself to just one.<\/p>\n

So, first, because it’s Friday, and the heat of summer still lingers in New York, and there are very few things I like better than watching him sing and dance with his guitar, here he is cutting the rug while playing Fast As You<\/i>, from This Time <\/i> (1993):<\/p>\n

 
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\nSecond, Turn Me On, Turn Me Up, Turn Me Loose<\/i> from If There Was a Way<\/i> (1990) which does include dancing but is beyond that is probably my all-time favorite Dwight Yoakam song. Also, there is some seriously freaky<\/i> business going on in this video. <\/p>\n

I mean, there’s the filmic set piece at the beginning, and then he (or the character he’s playing) falls face-first into a brothel, and then<\/i> there are men line-dancing in lederhosen and scantily-clad ladies wearing enormous headphones riding partial mechanical bulls that are suspended from the ceiling. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Dwight Yoakam is both on the stage singing his song in a fancy sparkly jacket and in the audience, watching himself sing. It’s basically what would happen if an Elvis Presley movie had been directed by David Lynch.
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As a bonus: in the course of picking out these videos, I learned he’ll be putting out a new record this fall, to be called 3 Pears<\/i>, and include collaborations with Kid Rock and Beck. In all seriousness I cannot wait to hear what that might sound like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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