Dwight Yoakam's 'Brighter Days' out now, featured in both the NY Times & LA Times

DWIGHT YOAKAM’S BRIGHTER DAYS OUT NOW ON VIA RECORDS/THIRTY TIGERS FIRST ALBUM OF NEW MUSIC IN NINE YEARS COSMIC ROUNDUP & RODEO TOUR CONTINUES, SETS NEW DATES IN 2025   photo credit: Emily Joyce   READ FEATURE HERE READ FEATURE HERE READ FEATURE HERE November 15, 2024—21-time nominated, multiple Grammy Award winner and country superstar Dwight Yoakam’s first new album in nine years, Brighter Days, is out now on Via Records/Thirty Tigers. Listen HERE. Leading up to the release Yoakam unveiled three new songs: “I’ll Pay The Price”, “Wide Open Heart”, and “I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)” with Post Malone (watch/share the video HERE). Written and recorded over the last three years, Brighter Days features 12 brand-new songs written/co-written by Yoakam, as well as three seemingly disparate covers—“Keeping On The Sunny Side” by the Carter Family, “Bound Away” by Cake and “Time Between” written by Chris Hillman of The Byrds—artfully woven into the same body of work in the unmistakable style that could only be Dwight Yoakam. At once timeless and timely, Yoakam self-produced Brighter Days, infusing a modern appreciation for country music’s history with the trailblazing rock and roll spirit of California. The result is an album that reflects a sense of craftsmanship and immediacy, capturing the quintessential Dwight Yoakam “cool” that has set him apart from his country contemporaries since the beginning of his legendary career. As always, Yoakam’s lyrics throughout the album are both deceptively effortless and profoundly poignant. The album was mixed by world-class engineer Chris Lord-Alge. Yoakam’s Cosmic Roundup & Rodeo tour continues as he sets new dates for Spring and Summer 2025. Kicking off February 6 and including shows in New York City, Atlanta, Indianapolis and more. See below for complete list of dates. Dwight Yoakam has sold over 26 million albums worldwide, with five reaching the #1 spot on Billboard. He is a 21-time nominated, multiple Grammy Award winner. He has 12 Gold albums and nine Platinum or multi-Platinum albums. Yoakam is the recipient of the Artist of the Year Award from the Americana Music Association, the prestigious BMI Country Awards’ President’s Award and has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He received a Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 2024 Americana Music Awards. He has collaborated with everyone from Beck to Kid Rock, ZZ Top, Hunter S. Thompson and Jack White. He has toured with the likes of Buck Owens, Johnny Cash and Hüsker Dü. Yoakam’s last album, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…, was released in 2016. Rolling Stone Country raves, “Yoakam sounds right at home on these new versions,” while NPR Music praises, “You can hear Yoakam making masterful choices on every phrase.” In addition to his musical career, Yoakam has appeared in more than 40 feature films including Sling Blade, Panic Room and Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, as well as a role in the Amazon series “Goliath.” Over the course of his storied acting career he has worked with the likes of Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey and more. In 1977, Yoakam left Kentucky for Nashville to embark on a music career but found that the Music City was moving away from traditional country roots to more pop-country. He found himself better suited to the post-Bakersfield movement and became one of the founding fathers of the L.A. Cowpunk Scene influenced by second-wave rockabilly and punk alongside X, Los Lobos, The Knitters, Rank & File and The Blasters. Praise for “I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)”: [Of “I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)”] “The western  swinging tune is the first new single from country icon Dwight Yoakam in nine years and, of course, he has country music’s current brightest light on it.” READ HERE READ HERE READ HERE READ HERE Dwight Yoakam—Brighter Days TRACKLIST 1. Wide Open Heart 2. I’ll Pay The Price 3. Bound Away (Cake cover) 4. California Sky 5. Can’t Be Wrong 6. I Spell Love 7. A Dream That Never Ends 8. Brighter Days 9. I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom) (with Post Malone) 10. If Only 11. Hand Me Down Heart 12. Time Between (The Byrds cover) 13. Keep On The Sunny Side (The Carter Family cover) 14. Every Night TOUR DATES November 15—Pompano Beach, FL—Pompano Beach Amphitheater* November 21—Grand Prairie, TX—Texas Trust CU Theatre† November 22—Beaumont, TX—Ford Park Pavilion‡ November 23—Corpus Christi, TX—American Bank Center Arena‡ February  6—Atlanta, GA—Fox Theatre** February 7—Tallahassee, FL—Donald L. Tucker County Civic Center** February 8—Baton Rouge, LA— Raising Cane’s River Center** February 21—Oklahoma City, OK—Paycom Center§ February 22—San Antonio, TX—San Antonio Stock Show & Radio February 23—Hidalgo, TX—Payne Arena§ March 20—Evansville, IN—Ford Center§ March 21—Milwaukee, WI— Miller High Life Theatre§ March 22—Duluth, MN—AMSOIL Arena§ March 27—Kalamazoo, MI— Wings Event Center** March 28—Cedar Rapids, IA— Alliant Energy PowerHouse** March 29—Bloomington, IL—Grossinger Motors Arena** April 10—New York, NY—Beacon Theatre§ April 11—Poughkeepsie, NY—MJN Center§ April 12—Salamanca, NY— Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino§ April 24—Saint Charles, MO—The Family Arena§ April 25—Louisville, KY—Iroquois Amphitheater§ April 26—Pikeville, KY—Appalachian Wireless Arena§ May 8—Grand Junction, CO—Amphitheater at Las Colonias Park** May 9—Colorado Springs, CO—Ford Amphitheater** May 10—Loveland, CO—Blue Arena** May 15—Amarillo, TX—Amarillo Civic Center§ May 16—Las Cruces, NM— Pan American Center§ May 17—Tuscon, AZ— Tucson Arena§ May 29—Orange Beach, AL—The Wharf Amphitheater§ May 30—Southaven, MS— BankPlus Amphitheater** May 31—Camdenton, MO— Ozarks Amphitheater** June 5—Indianapolis, IN—  Everwise Amphitheater** June 6—LaCrosse, WI—LaCrosse Center§ June 7—Mankato, MN— Mayo Clinic Health System Event Center** June 19—Wilmington, NC— Live Oak Bank Pavilion** June 20—Salam, VA— Salem Civic Center** June 21—Richmond, VA— Riverfront Amphitheater** *The Mavericks w/ Drayton Farley †Joshua Ray Walker ‡Gary Allan w/ Joshua Ray Walker §The Mavericks **The Mavericks & 49 Winchester