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Dwight Yoakam: Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room

On August 2, 1988, “Reprise” label released “Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room”, the third Dwight Yoakam studio album. It was recorded in 1988, at “Capitol” in Hollywood, and was produced by Pete Anderson.

Personnel:

  • Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
  • Pete Anderson – acoustic and electric guitar, six-string bass guitar, mandolin, percussion, backing vocals
  • Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
  • Scott Joss – mandolin
  • Skip Edwards – piano
  • Flaco Jiménez – accordion
  • Al Perkins – dobro
  • Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
  • Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar, percussion
  • Jeff Donavan – drums
  • Don Reed – fiddle
  • Buck Owens – duet vocals
  • Maria McKee – backing vocals
  • The Lonesome Strangers (Jeff Rymes and Randy Weeks) – backing vocals
  • Jim Lauderdale – backing vocals
  • Brantley Kearns – backing vocals

Track listing:

All tracks by Dwight Yoakam, except where noted.

  1. I Got You
  2. One More Name
  3. What I Don’t Know
  4. Home of the Blues – Johnny Cash, Glenn Douglas, Little McAlpine
  5. Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
  6. I Hear You Knockin’ – J. D. Miller
  7. I Sang Dixie
  8. Streets of Bakersfield – Homer Joy
  9. Floyd County
  10. Send Me the Pillow – Hank Locklin
  11. Hold On to God

Ry Cooder: Get Rhythm

In November 1987, “Warner Bros” label released “Get Rhythm”, the eleventh Ry Cooder album. It was recorded in 1987, at “Ocean Way Studios” in Los Angeles, and was produced by Ry Cooder.

Personnel:

  • Ry Cooder – vocals, guitar, arrangements
  • Van Dyke Parks – keyboards
  • Flaco Jiménez – accordion
  • Steve Douglas – saxophone
  • Jorge Calderón – bass guitar
  • Buell Neidlinger – acoustic bass
  • Jim Keltner – drums
  • Miguel Cruz – percussion
  • Bobby King, Terry Evans, Arnold McCuller, Willie Greene, Jr. – backing vocals
  • Larry Blackmon – backing vocals
  • Harry Dean Stanton – backing vocals
  • Ed Cherney – recording
  • Steven M. Martin – art direction
  • Kalan Brunink – black velvet painting

Track listing:

  1. Get Rhythm – Johnny Cash
  2. Low Commotion – Ry Cooder, Jim Keltner
  3. Going Back to Okinawa – Ry Cooder
  4. Thirteen Question Method – Chuck Berry
  5. Women Will Rule the World – Raymond Quevedo
  6. All Shook Up – Elvis Presley, Otis Blackwell
  7. I Can Tell by the Way You Smell – Walter Davis
  8. Across the Borderline – Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, John Hiatt
  9. Let’s Have a Ball – Allen Bunn