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Dwight Yoakam: Gone

Geoffrey Himes, Rolling Stone, 14 December 1995

EVEN TODAY the stereotype lingers that country songs are all words – storytelling lyrics backed by merely functional music. That cliché can be shattered once and for all with a listen to Dwight Yoakam's first studio album in two and a half years.

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