Since The Alpha Band broke up, Mansfield has continued to work as a musician in sessions for Dylan, Burnett, Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, Roger McGuinn, Sam Phillips, Mark Heard, The Roches, Edie Brickell, Spinal Tap, Lucinda Williams, Dwight Yoakam, Victoria Williams, Loudon Wainwright III, Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen and others.

He has played and toured with Bob Dylan, Cher, Rita Coolidge, Dan Fogelberg, Dwight Yoakam and Michael Martin Murphey.

" Along with his bluegrass and honky-tonk roots, Yoakam has written or covered many Elvis Presley-style rockabilly songs, including his covers of Queen's " Crazy Little Thing Called Love " in 1999 and Presley's " Suspicious Minds " in 1992.

Yoakam has also starred in many films, most notably in critically acclaimed performances as an ill-tempered, abusive, live-in boyfriend in Sling Blade ( 1996 ), as a psychopathic killer in Panic Room ( 2002 ), as a police detective in Hollywood Homicide ( 2003 ) and as the sheriff in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada ( 2005 ).

Love Ride began in 1981 and has been growing ever since including many celebrities from Malcolm Forbes to Peter Fonda to Larry Hagman with musical entertainment from Robbie Krieger, David Crosby, Eric Burdon, Jackson Browne, Little Feat, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, Dwight Yoakam, the Doobie Brothers, Sammy Hagar, Justin Bieber and others.

Toni Hudson has also choreographed for singer / actor ' Dwight Yoakam ' on many of his music videos as well as for the ' Country Music Awards ' ( CMA ' S ) in Nashville and a couple of independent films ..' Out of these Rooms ' and ' Cahoots '.

) The facility has also been the site of the New England Collegiate All-Star Game ; the Big East baseball tournament ; several concerts including the Beach Boys, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, and Clint Black / Dwight Yoakam ; and a TNA Wrestling event.

Clipper Magazine Stadium has hosted various concerts, including rock musicians Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Def Leppard, and Jefferson Starship ; country music artists Clint Black, Dwight Yoakam, and Willie Nelson ; and smooth jazz instrumentalist Kenny G.

Dwight Yoakam has also performed it live in concert.

Our main stage has seen everybody from Robbie Krieger, David Crosby, Eric Burdon, Jackson Browne, Little Feat, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, Dwight Yoakam, the Doobie Brothers, Sammy Hagar and others.

" Beug co-directed the former two videos with Yoakam and was the sole director of the latter video.

Outside of school, Yoakam sang and played guitar with local garage bands, and entertained his friends and classmates with his impersonations, such as Richard Nixon, who, at the time, was heavily embroiled in the Watergate controversy.

Yoakam briefly attended Ohio State University, but dropped out and moved to Nashville in 1977 with the intent of becoming a recording artist.

Writing all his own songs, and continuing to perform mostly outside traditional country music channels, Yoakam did many shows in rock and punk rock clubs around Los Angeles, playing with roots rock or punk rock acts like The Blasters ( Yoakam scored a small video hit with his version of their song " Long White Cadillac "), Los Lobos, and X.

In July 2011, Yoakam re-signed with Warner Bros. Nashville and announced plans to release a new album.

The album, produced by Yoakam, includes collaborations with Kid Rock and Beck.

By the middle of the 1980s, the country music charts were dominated by pop singers, alongside a nascent revival of honky-tonk-style country with the rise of performers like Dwight Yoakam.

During the 1980s, a revival of slicker honky tonk took over the charts, beginning with Dwight Yoakam ( and his cover of Johnny Horton's " Honky Tonk Man "), and George Strait in the middle of the decade.

In 1989 she sang a duet, Sin City, with Dwight Yoakam on his album " Just Lookin ' for a Hit.

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She teamed with Dwight Yoakam for a duet on " Bury Me ," from his 1986 debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.

McMurtry also appeared on the soundtrack of the film Falling from Grace, working with Mellencamp, John Prine, Joe Ely, and Dwight Yoakam in a " supergroup " called Buzzin ' Cousins.

Corb Lund signed a two-album deal with New West Records ( home of Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle, Kris Kristofferson and other major artists ) in 2009.

Later in the decade and into the next, these both mixed with other genres in the form of heartland rockers like Bruce Springsteen, while a honky tonk revival hit the country charts, led by Dwight Yoakam.

When the " Neotraditional country " singers entered Nashville in 1986 with singers like Dwight Yoakam and Randy Travis pushing Gatlin and other Country-Pop-styled vocalists off the Top 10 list, Gatlin's chart success declined greatly.

* Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., the 1984 debut album by Country singer Dwight Yoakam and its eponymous title song

Country music stars including Loretta Lynn, Wynonna Judd, Naomi Judd, Billy Ray Cyrus, Tom T. Hall, Ricky Skaggs, Keith Whitley, Dwight Yoakam, and Patty Loveless are all from the Big Sandy Valley.

Yoakam won the Grammy Award for " Best Male Country Vocal Performance " in 1993 for the song " Ain't That Lonely Yet ".

In addition to her work as video producer, Beug also directed three music videos for country singer Dwight Yoakam: " Ain't That Lonely Yet ", " A Thousand Miles from Nowhere " and " Fast as You.

* Dwight Yoakam – country music singer and songwriter

Dwight David Yoakam ( born October 23, 1956 ) is an American singer-songwriter, actor and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music.

Not making much headway in Nashville, Yoakam moved to Los Angeles and worked towards bringing his particular brand of new Honky Tonk or " Hillbilly " music ( as he called it ) forward into the 1980s.

American country music singer Dwight Yoakam included a cover of the song on his 1999 album Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the 90's.

The music video was directed by Yoakam.

Nashville's predominance in county music was regained by the early 1980s, when Dwight Yoakam and other neo-traditionalists entered the charts.

Benson brought together some of the best talent in country music today to record the tribute to Wills and Texas swing music, including Dwight Yoakam, Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, the Dixie Chicks, and Willie Nelson.

" In the late 1980s, artists such as Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, and Dwight Yoakam helped to bring traditional Appalachian influences back to country music.

A Pontiac Grandville convertible customized by Nudie can be seen at the end of the 1988 Buck Owens / Dwight Yoakam music video, " The Streets of Bakersfield.

In the 21st century, Yoakam released dwightyoakamacoustic. net, an album featuring solo acoustic versions of many of his hits ; left his major label and started his own label.

On the night the two move into the home, it is broken into by Junior ( Leto ), the grandson of the previous owner ; Burnham ( Whitaker ), an employee of the residence's security company ; and Raoul ( Yoakam ), a ski mask-wearing gunman recruited by Junior.

Dwight Yoakam sang backup on the tribute.

Sometime after this, Dwight Yoakam appeared on the same show and after Yates told him, " You seem different from other country singers we've had on the show ," Yoakam replied, " What?

Yoakam also released an album dedicated to Buck Owens, Dwight Sings Buck, on October 23, 2007.

By this time his musical presence was fading from the public view, as more neo-traditional country singers were making hits on the country charts, like Garth Brooks, Randy Travis, and Dwight Yoakam.

The Dolly Parton " band " was composed of members of Rhino Bucket ( who had a contributing song on the soundtrack of the 1992 Penelope Spheeris hit movie Wayne's World ), The Dwight Yoakam Band ( Skip Edwards ), and Vern Monnett ( Randy Meisner, Texas Tornados and Gary Allan ).

Songs played on the tape included complete versions of multiple hits by artists such as AC / DC and Dwight Yoakam, often in a row.