NASHVILLE |DATE: APRIL 10, 2013
SIRIUSXM TO BROADCAST DWIGHT YOAKAM’S
SOLD-OUT SHOW THIS FRIDAY, APRIL 12
LIVE FROM NASHVILLE’S RYMAN AUDITORIUM
TUNE IN TO OUTLAW COUNTRY
BEGINNING AT 10:00 PM EASTERN
SHOW TO RE-AIR ON FOURTH OF JULY
Credit: Emily J Joyce / ReJoyce Photography
Courtesy of Via Entertainment Productions Inc.
Sirius-XM’s Outlaw Country channel will broadcast DWIGHT YOAKAM’s sold-out show at Nashville’s historic Ryman auditorium this Friday, April 12 beginning at 10:00 PM Eastern.
The concert is the first of two Ryman shows that sold out in under an hour, and fans nationwide will have a chance to listen live as Dwight treats the crowd and internet listeners to songs from throughout the Grammy Award-winning artist’s career. SIRIUSXM’s Outlaw Country (channel 60)–who have also broadcast live shows from Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle and Shooter Jennings–will re-broadcast the show Thursday, July 4th.
Yoakam is touring in support of his critically acclaimed 3 Pears album and will be at the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival June 15 in Manchester, TN and will appear April 27 at Stagecoach: California’s Country Music Festival in Indio, CA, as well as dates confirmed throughout the year.
Dwight’s Ryman dates marks his return to the Mother Church of Country Music’s sacred stage for the first time since 2005. “The Ryman is one of a handful of places in the world, that from the moment you step inside, you can feel that you have entered a hallowed chamber occupied by the essence of the great,” said Yoakam.
With 3 Pears, Dwight has dominated best-of-2012 lists including Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Village Voice, NPR, American Songwriter, Rhapsody and AOL’s The Boot. Meanwhile, the album was just named the #2 album of the year in Nashville Scene’s 13th Annual Country Music Critics’ Poll, as well being named the third best male vocalist, #5 songwriter and #8 artist of the year. See the full poll results here: http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/the-results/Content?oid=3230419
Dwight has been included in more critics’ year-end lists in 2012 than any other country artist. In addition, 3 Pears holds the record for the most weeks at #1 (eight) at Americana radio. Here’s a sample of other praise for 3 Pears, which marks Yoakam’s 26th studio album and is his highest-charting debut on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Country Albums charts.
“For his first album of originals in seven years, trad-country torchbearer Yoakam had the inspired idea to call on Beck to produce a couple of tracks. The result, in ‘A Heart Like Mine,’ hits you like a linebacker–a ringing, clattering blend of Buck Owens-style California country and Sixties garage psychedelia.”
–Rolling Stone, (December 2012
“I’ll name my favorite country album of the year: Dwight Yoakam‘s 3 Pears, which is not just a return to form for the honky-tonk singer, but also one of the most consistently pleasurable albums by anyone this year.”
–Ken Tucker, NPR (12/11/12)
“…Yoakam’s wide ranging influences are fully integrated into the singular perspective of an artist. In other words, it all comes out sounding like Dwight Yoakam–at his best. Sharp, conceptual, and full of adult longing, this leap forward still honors the ol’ Guitars, Cadillacs.”
–Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice (12/21/12)
“[3 Pears]…has got hard shuffles, trebly guitars, steel-guitar solos, strong chorus hooks. It locates some measure of cool within old obsessions…but doesn’t want to be contained…The voices are loud, the guitars are louder.”
–Ben Ratliff, New York Times (9/17/12)
For the latest Dwight info and tour dates, visit:
www.DwightYoakam.com
www.facebook.com/dwightyoakam
https://twitter.com/DwightYoakam
About Outlaw Country:
Outlaw Country, created and executive produced by E Street Band member “Little Steven” Van Zandt, is home to the freaks, misfits, outcasts, rebels and renegades of country music. Outlaw Country features shows hosted by Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale, Steve Earle, Elizabeth Cook, Mojo Nixon, “Cowboy” Jack Clement, Shooter Jennings, Johnny Knoxville and Roger Alan Wade, Dallas Wayne and Hillbilly Jim. For more information on SiriusXM, please visit www.siriusxm.com.
About Dwight Yoakam:
Praised by Associated Press as “one of the most consistently interesting country music visionaries of his time” and honored at the 2012 6th Annual ACM Honors with the prestigious Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award, Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums, has 12 gold albums and nine platinum or multi-platinum albums, including the triple platinum This Time. Five of his albums have topped Billboard’s Country Albums chart with another fourteen landing in the Top 10. More than 30 singles have charted, with 22 Top 20 hits. Yoakam has won two GRAMMY Awards and earned an impressive 21 nominations.
For more information on Dwight Yoakam, please contact:
MSO PR (Los Angeles, Nashville)
Mitch Schneider 818-380-0400 x235 mschneider@msopr.com
Todd Brodginski 818-380-0400 x239 toddb@msopr.com
Lyndie Wenner 615-973-4160 lwenner@msopr.com
Warner Music Nashville
Tree Paine (615) 214-1500 Tree.Paine@wmg.com
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