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Dwight Yoakam: This Time (Reprise)

Richard C. Walls, Musician, June 1993

DWIGHT YOAKAM made his mark as a new traditionalist country singer — vocally a natural, with the stoic throb and nasal soulfulness to give life to the genre's lachrymose laments, and musically willing to combine honky-tonk and hillbilly configurations with rockabilly beats and stone rock guitar.

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