In recent months, Dwight Yoakam effectively wrapped up what was left of his career as a mainstream country singer: After a long and fruitful stint on a major label, which culminated in a four-disc ...

Leave it to Dwight Yoakam to transform the suave Bacharach-David pop nugget "Trains and Boats and Planes" into brisk quasi-bluegrass -- with the venerable Earl Scruggs on banjo. That's what country's ...