Dwight Yoakam, known for "Guitars, Cadillacs," will perform at the Canton Civic Center in late summer. Tickets go on sale May 23. Presale is May 20.

The man who many believe singlehandedly brought real country music back from the commercial abyss in the 1980s, Dwight Yoakam, is bringing his rollicking honky-tonk roots sound to the Majed J.

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What: 49 Winchester with Dwight Yoakam, The Mavericks When: 7 p.m. Friday, March 28 Where: Alliant Energy PowerHouse, 370 1st Ave. NE, Cedar Rapids Cost: $35.50+ Tickets: creventslive.com; (319 ...

Dwight Yoakam said he gets it. Speaking to a full house at the Miller High Life Theatre in Milwaukee Friday — the latest stop of his "Cosmic Roundup & Rodeo Tour" with the Mavericks — the 68 ...

Yoakam joined for "Little Ways," and Paisley appeared for "I'm Gonna Miss Her" and Vince Gill's 1992 hit "One More Last Chance," while Evans performed a duet of her classic "Suds In The Bucket." ...

Yoakam is now as much a musician as an actor and, more notably, the curator of SiriusXM's Channel 349, the Bakersfield Beat. As expected, the channel honors the roots he has chosen to protect.

Brighter Days is Yoakam’s 21st studio album. Pictured is Dwight Yoakam who will perform next year at the Seneca Allegany Casino. I was always a little stunned that things have been played 2, 3 million ...

Then Yoakam was invited to join his tattooed friend at this year’s Stagecoach Festival, a huge country shindig at the same Californian site as Coachella, where they performed Dwight’s Little Ways.

He closed with a flurry of classics, starting with the haunting “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere” and two early cuts, 1987’s “Little Ways” and 1985’s “Guitars, Cadillacs.” ...

Yoakam has recorded a harmonious new duet with Post Malone. Morris is stretching beyond country's borders. And Thompson — half of the duo Thompson Square — looks back to the roots of honky-tonk.