Dwight Yoakam launches into 2013 with a performance tonight, January 2 on NBC's TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO.
The Grammy-winning country music innovator is riding a new wave of success and acclaim with his latest album 3 PEARS (Warner Bros) and single "A Heart Like Mine." He has dominated best-of-2012 lists including Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, the Village Voice and NPR. Rolling Stone picked "A Heart Like Mine" as one of the year's best singles of the year, noting:"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)DWIGHT has been included in more critics' year-end lists in 2012 than any other country artist, and 3 PEARS broke the 2012 record for spending 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 chart.Videos