Dwight Yoakam

File under "Brilliant Disasters." Dwight Yoakam, streetwise countripolitan crooner, attempts
to do what David Bowie, one-time Spider from Mars, did on his own brilliant disaster, Pin
Ups. Like that 1973 oddity, Under the Covers is a collection of wildly divergent,
idiosyncratic interpretations of some old chestnuts. The result – which is par for the
course on albums like this – is that about half the songs kick butt and the other h... More >