Dwight Yoakam: Honky-Tonk Experiments
An exponent of West Coast honky-tonk whose success as a mainstream country artist helped redefine country’s relationship to its past,…

Hailing from Arlington, Georgia, a tiny town in the rural, southwestern part of the state, Joanna Smith felt the pull of country music at age five. Most nights she could be found in her bed balancing a Fisher-Price tape recorder on her ear as it blared tapes… more