Dwight Yoakam & Buck Owens ~ "Streets of Bakersfield"

Album: «Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room».
Låtskriver: Homer Joy
Utgitt: 1989

Personnel
Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Pete Anderson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar, background vocals, percussion; mandolin on "Send Me the Pillow"
Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
Al Perkins – Dobro
Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar ("Hold On to God"), percussion
Jeff Donavan – drums
Don Reed – fiddle
Skip Edwards – piano
Scott Joss – mandolin
Flaco Jiménez – accordion
Maria McKee – background vocals on "Send Me the Pillow"
Buck Owens – duet vocals on "Streets of Bakersfield"
The Lonesome Strangers (Jeff Rymes and Randy Weeks) – background vocals on "Hold On to God"
Jim Lauderdale – background vocals
Brantley Kearns – background vocals on "What I Don't Know"
"Streets of Bakersfield" is a 1973 song written by Homer Joy and popularized by Buck Owens. In 1988, Owens recorded a duet version with country singer Dwight Yoakam, which became one of Yoakam's first No. 1 Hot Country Singles hits.
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Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam's first (and, as of 2017, only) two No. 1 Hot Country Singles singles. The first was "Streets of Bakersfield," a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song in 1973. The second was an original composition of Yoakam's titled "I Sang Dixie." A third song on the album, "I Got You, also an original composition, peaked at No. 5. The title song, "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)," also charted, but only to the No. 46 position
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Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor, known for his pioneering style of country music. First becoming popular in the mid-1980s, Yoakam has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, charted more than thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has recorded five Billboard #1 albums, twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple-platinum This Time.

In addition to his many achievements in the performing arts, he is also the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show
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Alvis Edgar Owens Jr. (August 12, 1929 – March 25, 2006), professionally known as Buck Owens, was an American musician, singer, songwriter and band leader who had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music charts with his band the Buckaroos. They pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named after Bakersfield, California, the city Owens called home and from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call American music.
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Lyrics:
I came here in looking for somethin'
I couldn't find anywhere else
Well, I don't want to be nobody,
Just want a chance to be myself.
I've done a thousand miles of thumbin',
Yes, I've worn blisters on my heels
Trying to find me something better
On the streets of Bakersfield.
You don't know me but you don't like me,
You say you care less how I feel
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield?
Spent some time in San Francisco,
Spent a night there in the can
They threw this drunk man in my jail cell,
I took fifteen dollars from that man.
I left him my watch and my old house keys,
I don't like folks thinking that I'd steal
Then I thanked him as he was sleeping,
And I headed out for Bakersfield.
You don't know me but you don't like me,
You say you care less how I feel
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield
How many of you that sit and judge me
Ever walked the streets of Bakersfield...

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