Though Dwight Yoakam seems a freewheeling conversationalist ... and the timeless 1988 duet "Streets of Bakersfield" with Buck Owens, among a half-dozen No. 1 singles worldwide.

Dwight Yoakam has country music cred ... The stripped-down honky-tonk and Bakersfield sound for which Yoakam became known proved, historian Bill Malone writes, that country “could flourish ...

Someone put on some Dwight Yoakam, Kevin Harvick is returning to the streets of Bakersfield. Well, to the race track. The Closer will race in the CARS Tour West event at Kern Raceway, which now bears ...

That day, Texan hitmaker Buck Owens went into Capitol Studios to ... have been recorded by Charley Pride, Leon Russell, Dwight Yoakam, and, in 1971, by writer Johnny Russell, who that year started ...

Hailed as a "new traditionalist" who was an important part of the alt-country movement, platinum-selling musician and songwriter Dwight Yoakam ... Bakersfield," a duet sung with his idol Buck ...