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Length
  
34:59

Release date
  
20 September 1989

Label
  
Reprise Records

Artist
  
Dwight Yoakam

Producer
  
Pete Anderson

Genre
  
Country music

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Released
  
September 20, 1989 (1989-09-20)

Just Lookin' for a Hit (1989)
  
If There Was a Way (1990)

Similar
  
Dwight Yoakam albums, Country music albums

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Just Lookin' for a Hit is the first greatest hits compilation album released by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It includes eight singles from his 1980s albums for Reprise Records, as well as two newly recorded cover songs: "Long White Cadillac", originally recorded by The Blasters, and "Sin City", originally recorded by the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Long White Cadillac" (Dave Alvin) – 5:21
  2. "Little Ways" (Yoakam) – 3:21
  3. "Honky Tonk Man" (Johnny Horton, Tillman Franks, Howard Hausey) – 2:47
  4. "I Got You" (Yoakam) – 3:31
  5. "Little Sister" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:04
  6. "I Sang Dixie" (Yoakam) – 3:50
  7. "Guitars, Cadillacs" (Yoakam) – 3:04
  8. "Sin City" (Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman) – 3:55
  9. duet with k.d. lang
  10. "Please, Please Baby" (Yoakam) – 3:35
  11. "Streets of Bakersfield" (Homer Joy) – 2:49
  12. duet with Buck Owens

Personnel

  • Pete Anderson – acoustic guitar, six-string bass guitar, electric guitar, percussion
  • Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
  • Jeff Donavan – drums
  • Skip Edwards – piano
  • J.D. Foster – bass guitar
  • Glen D. Hardin – piano
  • Flaco Jiménez – accordion
  • Scott Joss – mandolin, background vocals
  • Brantley Kearns – fiddle, background vocals
  • k.d. lang – duet vocals on "Sin City"
  • Jim Lauderdale – background vocals
  • Buck Owens – duet vocals on "Streets of Bakersfield"
  • Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
  • Don Reed – fiddle
  • Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar
  • Dwight Yoakam – acoustic guitar, percussion, lead vocals, background vocals

    • Songs

    1Long White Cadillac5:21
    2Little Ways3:21
    3Honky Tonk Man2:49

    References

    Just Lookin' for a Hit Wikipedia
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