Dwight Yoakam - Just Lookin' For a Hit (1989) Vinyl LP • Greatest Hits, Best of

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Catalog Number: W1-25989

CONDITION DETAILS Still in ORIGINAL SHRINK-WRAP (opened). Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a couple creases near edges; slight discoloration and no scuffing (front/back); shrink is torn near top-left on back. Inner-sleeve is original (photo/lyrics); two seams partially split. Spine is easy-to-read with very mild-wear. Little shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; some wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and a few divots. Columbia House pressing. (Not a cut-out.)

ABOUT THE RECORD Just Lookin' For a Hit is the first greatest hits compilation album released by Dwight Yoakam. It includes eight singles from his 1980s albums for Reprise Records, as well as two newly recorded cover songs: Long White Cadillac, originally recorded by The Blasters, and Sin City, originally recorded by the Flying Burrito Brothers. The collection is best known for containing the Dave Alvin composition Long White Cadillac, a song about the death of Hank Williams, who died in the backseat of a Cadillac on his way to a show in Canton, Ohio on New Year’s Day, 1953. Yoakam played gigs alongside Alvin's band The Blasters, Los Lobos, X, and others in the rock and punk clubs of Los Angeles, and, beginning in 1986, Yoakam scored a run of three consecutive No. 1 country albums. According to Don McLeese’s book A Thousand Miles from Nowhere, Alvin was overjoyed when Yoakam, one of the hottest stars in country music at the time, told him he was going to record the song. Yoakam later insisted, “I did it because I loved that song. I thought it was one of the greatest songs ever written. A rock and roll homage to Hank Williams, who was essentially the first rock star.” Sin City, was written by Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons. Parsons, who also died young, was a country-rock pioneer and guiding light behind the Byrds’ seminal Sweetheart of the Rodeo album that Yoakam highly regarded. He sang the tune as a duet with Canadian singer k.d. lang, who, like Yoakam, was a maverick on the country music scene at the time. AllMusic: “When one considers that these are merely highlights - and some of them arguable choices -from his first three records, the true value of Yoakam as a recording artist who single-handedly revitalized traditional country music becomes evident. This is a smoking hits collection but is only a taste of the treasures that lie within the individual albums themselves.”
Portions of our "About the Record" section are taken from information gathered from Wikipedia and AllMusic.

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