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Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room

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Released
  
August 2, 1988

Label
  
Reprise

Release date
  
2 August 1988

Genre
  
Country music

Length
  
37:11

Artist
  
Dwight Yoakam

Producer
  
Pete Anderson

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Recorded
  
Capitol Studios "A", "B", and "C" Hollywood, CA

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (1988)
  
Just Lookin' for a Hit (1989)

Nominations
  
Academy of Country Music Award for Album of the Year

Similar
  
Dwight Yoakam albums, Country music albums

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Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third studio album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam's first two No. 1 Hot Country Singles hits. The first was "Streets of Bakersfield," a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song in 1973. The second was an original composition of Yoakam's called "I Sang Dixie." A third song on the album, "I Got You, also an original composition, rose to #5. The title song, "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)," also charted, but only to the #46 spot.

Contents

CD

  1. "I Got You" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:28
  2. "One More Name" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:05
  3. "What I Don't Know" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:46
  4. "Home of the Blues" (Johnny Cash, Glenn Douglas, Lillie McAlpine) - 2:52
  5. "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)" (Dwight Yoakam) - 4:31
  6. "I Hear You Knockin'" (J.D. Miller) - 3:12
  7. "I Sang Dixie" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:47
  8. "Streets of Bakersfield" [with Buck Owens] (Homer Joy) - 2:48
  9. "Floyd County" (Dwight Yoakam) - 2:55
  10. "Send Me the Pillow" (Hank Locklin) - 3:00
  11. "Hold On to God" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:14

Personnel

  • Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Pete Anderson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar, background vocals, percussion; mandolin on "Send Me the Pillow"
  • Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
  • Al Perkins – Dobro
  • Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
  • Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar ("Hold On to God"), percussion
  • Jeff Donavan – drums
  • Don Reed – fiddle
  • Skip Edwards – piano
  • Scott Joss – mandolin
  • Flaco Jiménez – accordion
  • Maria McKee – background vocals on "Send Me the Pillow"
  • Buck Owens – duet vocals on "Streets of Bakersfield"
  • The Lonesome Strangers (Jeff Rymes and Randy Weeks) – background vocals on "Hold On to God"
  • Jim Lauderdale – background vocals
  • Brantley Kearns – background vocals on "What I Don't Know"

    • Legacy

    The album was one of Rolling Stones' highest rated albums of 1988, at number 14. The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die. Writing in 2014, the alternative weekly Nashville Scene said the album "established him (Yoakam) as a master of persona, as well as an ingenious record-maker and self-deprecating songwriter."

    Songs

    1I Got You3:31
    2One More Name3:09
    3What I Don't Know3:50

    References

    Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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