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Vinyl LP pressing. 2016 release from the country music great. Dwight developed a love for bluegrass music at an early age, and for years has wanted to record an all bluegrass album. The songs for this album are new interpretations of classic Dwight songs plus a John Prine track that Dwight loves, and a very unique cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain.” The album includes four of Dwight’s past Billboard Top 100 Country tracks: “These Arms,” “Gone,” “Guitars, Cadillacs,” and “Please Please Baby,” all reimagined with a bluegrass treatment. Dwight Yoakam is an American singer-songwriter, actor, and film director, most famous for his pioneering country music. Popular since the early 1980s, he has recorded more than twenty one albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple platinum This Time. In addition to his many achievements in the performing arts, he is also the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show.