Dwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations. One reviewer described his work this way: Yoakam's lyrics-Leonard Cohen meets Ernest Tubb-work so well because they're literary without being high-minded. The artfulness of the words . . . doesn't always hit you until you read them on the lyric sheet. Newsweek called Yoakam's most recent record-titled, like his book, A Long Way Home-a daring departure. It's lush and languid, more introspective than hit-driven. He's looking for subtle emotions, melodic evocations of the distances between people, and he draws on sources as varied as Bobby Darin, Chet Baker, and Buck Owens to get there. A Long Way Home is the first collection of Yoakam's lyrics in book form. It spans his career, from such early albums as Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room to the recently released, critically acclaimed A Long Way Home. Yoakam's songwriting is really storytelling-he poetically writes of subjects ranging from God to drinking to love-and proves him to be as fine a writer as he is a musician. | A Long Way Home by Dwight Yoakam, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters