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List Price: $11.98 | | Label: Reprise / Wea
Salesrank: 43290
Released: May 23, 1995 |
| Our Price: $2.40 |
| Used Price: $0.54 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Dwight Live Track Listing:
1. Little Sister
2. It Only Hurts When I Cry
3. Heart That You Own
4. This Time
5. Streets of Bakersfield
6. Little Ways
7. Please, Please Baby
8. Nothing's Changed Here
9. Lonesome Roads
10. Thousand Miles from Nowhere
11. Wild Ride
12. Two Doors Down
13. Fast as You
14. Long White Cadillac
15. Miner's Prayer
16. Rocky Road Blues
17. Suspicious Minds
Editorial Review:
Dwight Live, with its generous helping of 17 songs, provides a useful summary of Yoakam's career thus far. He's recorded all but one of the songs before, but the six numbers from the '80s are deepened by everything Yoakam and his terrific band have learned from their years on the road, and the six numbers from his '93 album, This Time, are liberated from their radio-ready studio arrangements to kick up a little dust. For example, the come-back-home plea of the '87 hit, "Please, Please Baby," takes on a new urgency as Yoakam and the band make the swing beat really jump. And the title tune of the '93 album has a new swagger to it. Dwight Live opens and closes with Elvis Presley songs, "Little Sister" and "Suspicious Minds," a reminder of how Yoakam has infused hillbilly music with boisterous rhythms, much as the King once did. By contrast, Yoakam delivers "Miner's Prayer" from his first album in an unplugged version and follows it with Bill Monroe's "Rocky Road Blues," the one song he hadn't recorded before. The indisputable highlight, however, is a six-minute version of "Long White Cadillac," Dave Alvin's immortal song about Hank Williams's last ride. Yoakam moans and wails like a man pursued by hellhounds, and Anderson's guitar notes sound like those snarling, yapping dogs themselves. --Geoffrey Himes
Dwight Live Reviews:
Rockin' Dwight 
2007-04-04 - If you've ever seen Dwight live he puts on a fantastic show. I rarely like live albums, but I do this one. Well worth the money and adding to your collection. Some great cuts on a wide variety of songs, that showcase Dwight's talent.
The Mean Eyed Cat
Rock-A-Billy Review
KNON Radio 89.3
Dallas, Texas
Another must have......
2006-12-27 - Dwight's version of "Suspicious Minds" would even make the Big E proud.
One of the 3 or 4 Dwight Yoakam albums you need to own
2006-08-28 - Even if you have his greatest hits, the Reprise box set, or albums containing the studio versions of these songs, this live album is STILL a MUST. The energy and musicianship, not mention Dwight's own incomparable vocals, are fantatsic. And there are great live versions of songs you can't find anywhere else, like Rocky Road Blues, Fast As You, Long White Cadillac, Two Doors Down and more. Whether you're just now catching on to the genius and talent of DY's music, or are already a fan with lots of his albums, this is one you won't regret owning. It'd certainly one of my top 3 favorites.
Religious Conversion Experience
2006-01-04 - Hard core soul rocker that I have been since I was doing covers of Percy, Otis, James and Sam & Dave in '64, I have seen The White Light. And it is Right Here.
Ya see... ya got every single solitary component of what made Roy, Elvis, Buck, George, Conway and Hank the high priests of this genre right here in one religious conversion experience.
I had never been to the Country before. But I took on a gig with this pedal steel session giant named Stan Joyce back in '96 and had to learn all these tunes I'd never even heard of. I cringed at a few, winced at some, and found myself liking many of the ten-step ditties of the time.
But I went right over the dam when I heard "Fast as You" and "Long White Kitty" for the first time. I trotted myself right on =Down= to the record store and got me one of these before the sun sank. I was not disappointed in the rest of it.
Thirteen years later I know every word and every inflection by heart. I've performed every one of these tunes at one time or another and never failed to ring someone's bell with them.
Stan swore that a half dozen of the tone poems here are laments about Dwight's crossing paths with a certain actress famed for playing =very= bad wimmin. If so, it must have been a "Rocky Road," 'cause these are some of the most soulful lyrics I've ever run into... and considering all the Marvin Gaye, Barry White, Isaac Hayes and Lenny Williams tunes I've done in the last 35 years, that's saying something.
Now, on top of all that, there's this =band=. Good gravey, ladies and gentlemen, I didn't think white people could play like this (and I =am= white). If James Burdon was the Jimi Hendrix of flat-picking, this Pete Anderson is the Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Fer crissake, don't waste any more time reading this rant. Just order one of these regardless of the freight. Now. (You can thank me later.)
Disappointing ... 
2002-12-12 - This live album is a disappointment. Dwight Yoakam's
best studio work has crystal clear sound (vocals and
instruments) and lively energetic arrangements.
Unfortunately, Dwight never seems to get in the
groove during the concert[s] and his performance
is lackluster. Another disappointment is that the
sound quality is poor, even for a live album. The
redeeming qualities are the choice of some of his
best songs and his band is in good shape. Standouts
are "Lonesome Roads" and "A Thousand Miles From
Nowhere."
