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Grammy Award winner Dwight Yoakam will perform a t the Rio Rancho Events Center on Saturday\, September 2\, 2023 at 8:00pm. Tickets will be available at the Rio Rancho Events Center Box Office pre sented by Chalmers Ford and Ticketmaster.com. Public on-sale begins Frida y\, June 16 at 10:00am.
\nCam Allen with be Dwight Yoaka m’s Special Guest!
\nDwight Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide\, and he is a 21-time nominated\, multiple Gra mmy Award Winner. He has 12 gold albums and 9 platinum albums\, with five of those albums topping Billboard’s Country Albums chart with another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakam’s singles have charted on Bill board\, with 14 peaking in the Top 10. Yoakam is a recipient of the Artist of the Year award from the Americana Music Association\, the most prestig ious award offered by the organization\, he will be inducted into the Nash ville Songwriters Hall of Fame in the Songwriter/Artist category at the 49 th anniversary Gala on October 14\, 2019 in Nashville\, TN.
\nYoakam ’s self-curated SiriusXM channel\, titled Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfiel d Beat ‘Where Country Went Mod’ launched in April of 2018. The channel cel ebrates the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has inspired. Guests have boasted the likes of Post Malone\, Lukas Nelson\, Beck\, Chris Hillman\, J akob Dylan\, Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolans\, Dave Alvin\, and Jackie DeSh annon\, among others.
\nIn 2016\, Yoakam released his bluegrass albu m Swimmin’ Pools\, Movie Stars… on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of bluegrass luminaries\, this album boasts a collection of reinterpreted fa vorites from his catalogue\, as well as a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Produced by nine-time GRAMMY winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss\, Dolly P arton)\, Jon Randall (songwriter of “Whiskey Lullaby”)\, and Yoakam himsel f\, and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge\, this album reflects the love for bluegr ass music that Yoakam developed at an early age in Kentucky and that has i nspired him for many years thereafter. In 2018\, Yoakam released two songs \, “Pretty Horses” and “Then Came Monday” (the latter written with Chris S tapleton).
\nIn addition to his musical career\, Yoakam is a formida ble film and television actor who has appeared in over 40 feature films\, including Sling Blade and Panic Room. Most recently he was on the big scre en in Clint Eastwood’s latest film\, Cry Macho. He recurred in David E. Ke lley’s Amazon series Goliath and appeared in director Steven Soderbergh’s film Logan Lucky with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig.
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