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List Price: $59.98 | | Label: Rhino / Wea
Salesrank: 80775
Released: November 19, 2002 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Track Listing:
Disc 1:
1. Honky Tonk Man
2. Guitars, Cadillacs
3. It Won't Hurt
4. Miner's Prayer
5. Little Sister
6. Little Ways
7. Please, Please Baby
8. Always Late With Your Kisses
9. This Drinkin' Will Kill Me
10. Streets of Bakersfield (with Buck Owens)
11. I Sang Dixie
12. I Got You
13. I Hear You Knockin'
14. Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
15. Long White Cadillac
16. Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose
17. You're The One
18. Nothing's Changed Here
19. It Only Hurts When I Cry
20. The Heart That You Own
21. The Distance Between You And Me
22. Dangerous Man
23. Send A Message To My Heart (with Patty Loveless)
24. Takes A Lot To Rock You
Disc 2:
1. Carmelita (Flaco Jimenez featuring Dwight Yoakam)
2. Suspicious Minds (live)
3. Doin' What I Did
4. Hey Little Girl
5. Ain't That Lonely Yet
6. A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
7. Try Not To Look So Pretty
8. Pocket of a Clown
9. Home For Sale
10. Fast As You
11. King of Fools
12. Holding Things Together
13. Nothing
14. Don't Be Sad
15. Sorry You Asked?
16. Gone (That'll Be Me)
17. Claudette
18. Baby Don't Go (with Sheryl Crow)
19. Train In Vain
20. Rapid City, South Dakota
Disc 3:
1. Only Want You More
2. Same Fool
3. Things Change
4. These Arms
5. A Long Way Home
6. Crazy Little Thing Called Love
7. Thinking About Leaving
8. New San Antonio Rose (Asleep At The Wheel featuring Dwight Yoakam)
9. Two Doors Down (Acoustic)
10. Bury Me (Acoustic)
11. Love Caught Up To Me
12. What Do You Know About Love
13. Free To Go
14. A Place To Cry
15. I Want You To Want Me
16. Alright, I'm Wrong (with Buck Owens)
17. Who At The Door is Standing (with Bekka Bramlett)
18. The First Thing Smokin'
19. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
20. Louisville
21. Sittin' Pretty
22. Mercury Blues
Editorial Review:
From his '86 multiplatinum debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. through '01s South Of Heaven, West Of Hell, this expansive 4-CD boxed set culls material from Yoakam's entire Warner Bros. career. Presents 87 tracks circa 1981-2002, encompassing singles, album, cuts, previously unissued material, rarities, and soundtrack selections.
Contains 3 brand new recordings (exclusively available to this set): "Sittin' Pretty," "Louisville," and "Mercury Blues."
Includes a full disc comprised of nothing but previously unreleased material, including rare early demos from 1981, and live gems from various venues spanning nearly a decade, including renditions of "Truckin'," and "Mystery Train."
Also features Yoakam's contributions to tribute albums honoring Kinky Friedman, Merle Haggard, Bob Willis & The Texas Playboys, and ZZ Top.
Includes guest appearances by Buck Owens, Kelly Willis, Asleep At The Wheel, Patty Loveless, Bekka Bramlett, Flaco Jimenez, and Sheryl Crow.
Deluxe booklet features rare photos and tributes from Yoakam devotees including Dennis Hopper, Billy Gibbons, Dave Alvin, and Buck Owens.
Description of Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years:
Though Dwight Yoakam casts himself as the classic outsider, no contemporary country artist has been able to achieve more mainstream success while retaining more alternative credibility. This four-disc set (including more than an entire disc of previously unreleased material) documents the uniqueness of Yoakam's musical legacy, as he combines a core commitment to the hard twang of honky-tonk--in breakthrough hits such as "Guitars, Cadillacs" and the Buck Owens duet "Streets of Bakersfield--with a stylistic expansiveness that knows no limits. In addition to his underrated strength as a songwriter, no other country artist could extend himself from Queen ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love") to Cheap Trick ("I Want You to Want Me") to the Clash ("Train in Vain"), while paying the obligatory tributes to Elvis Presley, George Jones, and Merle Haggard. The three new recordings may be inconsequential (a shuffle rendition of "Mercury Blues" holds the most interest), but the archive of previously unreleased material includes a 10-song demo from 1981 (before Yoakam's pivotal pairing with guitarist/producer/bandleader Pete Anderson), two duets with Kelly Willis, and the eight live performances that conclude the set. --Don McLeese
Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years Reviews:
Dwight Yoakam, Reprise Please Baby 
2008-09-20 - Dwight's Reprise Please Baby box set is FANTASTIC, thoroughly enjoyed the music and the cover/booklet is now on the shelf as a display. So good I bought two copies, one as a gift for another Dwight fan.
Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years
Keep 'em Comin' 
2008-09-07 - Dwight Yoakam really did set Country music on fire in 1986 and since has become in the words of singer Marty Stuart, "An American music essential". After over fifteen years on Warner's Reprise label, Yoakam left to start his own label. Reprise Please Baby (a takeoff on an early Dwight Country Blues number "Please, Please Baby") is the first box set dedicated to an artist who's nowhere near finished creating excellent material.
The first three discs follow Yoakam's career chronologically, and there are no glaring omissions. Along the way, we are treated to Warren Zevon's "Carmelita" (from Flaco Jimenez's Partners album) and Bob Willis's "New San Antonio Rose" with Asleep at the Wheel. I would prefer some lesser known album cuts to others, but as Dwight himself once said, "Music is like any other art form in that it is completely subjective in nature" - can't please everybody. I am surprised nothing from his fantastic and overlooked Christmas album made the cut though.
Disc four is the big draw with twenty-one unreleased tracks. The first ten are demos of early Yoakam standards before he hooked up with ace guitarist Pete Anderson (who, by the way, is also an ace producer as this set and Yoakam's career attest) and signed a major record deal. Then come two tracks originally recorded by George Jones and Tammy Wynette performed with the terrific Kelly Willis. The rest of disc consists of live barnstormers that show the range of Yoakam's musical taste. He shows his Kentucky roots with Bill Monroe, the puuuure Country of Hank Williams, Sr., the swagger of Elvis (the only other white boy who could move like Yoakam on stage), and even the easygoing Rock of The Grateful Dead.
If one had to sum up Dwight Yoakam's career up to this point in one word, it may have to be what Johnny Cash thought of him, "Tremendous".
So Good I Own Two!!
2008-05-30 - Like I said, this box set is so good I bought two of them. One to save and the other to thumb through and get all dog-eared. First of all, the book with the biographical information about Dwight and his musical career and the numerous pictures are worth half the price right there, believe me!! As far as the music, I own every Dwight album, so for me there's not a whole lot new, but for those of you wanting an introduction to Dwight's music, it's a great deal, as well as if you want to round out your collection. My favorite is Disc 4 with the 1981 demos and also the live tracks when Dwight and the band just break loose and tear up those songs, just the way I like to hear them!!
One of the Best Box Sets Available
2006-03-31 - Here is an incredible collection of "Modern" Country Classics from the premiere "Modern" Country musicians. This is a 4 CD set (along with a fine booklet) that begins with Dwight's first album "Guitars, Cadillacs, ...", and continues through "Tomorrow's Sound Today". On the way, there are a few live songs, some acoustic versions, and some great duets. While many Box sets stop at 2 or 3 discs, this set includes a 4th disc of 21 previously unreleased songs; and these numbers include some of the finest live tracks you'll ever hear, as well as two obscure duets with Kelly Willis. I have no complaints regarding this set; the sound is incredible and the selection is nearly perfect. Let's all hope that Dwight continues releasing albums so that in another 10 years, we can have a second box set. Buy this one. A++++++
Includes a song that you cant find anywhere else!
2004-07-26 - The reason this compliation deserves 5 stars is because of the accompanying fourth disc that has nothing on it but brand new tracks; and most importantly, the track titled Please Daddy. This song has to be the BEST song that he has EVER recorded in his ENTIRE career. Just listen to it, and you will find out why. The fourth disc also has some very interesting "revised" tracks of his. This means that he took some of his older songs and re-did them. It would be safe to say that he majorly screwd up some of them, but he did "Floyd County" and "Twenty Years" fairly well. There are also some other newly recorded tracks as well as some live ones, but i dont care much for those.
As for the other three discs, they pretty much cover his entire career, from the beginning (Guitars Cadillacs) to his Souh of Heaven West of Hell Soundtrack. There are a few other pretty good unreleased tracks on the other discs as well.
So if you can afford it, I reccomend you buy this box set. It is worth buying it just for that one song. And heck, if you are a REAL Dwight fan, i'd say buy it for the heck of it! 86 songs covering his entire carrer from the beginning to 2001; you cant go wrong!
