The Read
Yoakam came out of Los Angeles rather than Nashville, playing hillbilly music to punk crowds because country radio had no use for it. What followed turned out to be one of the most durable bodies of work in the form: “Guitars, Cadillacs,” “Streets of Bakersfield,” the Buck Owens lineage worn openly. The voice is a hiccup and a moan and it still does exactly what it did. At the Ryman, the Telecaster can bite without flattening the voice. The audience will sit with the ballads, then respond when the full band bears down. Yoakam has enough durable hits to play them without treating the night as an oldies package.
The Venue
Ryman Auditorium
116 5th Ave N
The best-sounding hall in American music. A riverboat captain built it as a tabernacle in 1892, the pews are the originals, and artists talk about getting to play here the way athletes talk about a title.
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Shape The Night
8:00 PM · Dwight Yoakam
After
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