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G rammy Award winner Dwight Yoakam will perform at the Rio Rancho Events Cen ter on Saturday\, September 2\, 2023 at 8:00pm. Tickets will be available at the Rio Rancho Events Center Box Office presented by Chalmers Ford and Ticketmaster.com. Public on-sale begins Friday\, June 16 at 10:00am.
\nCam Allen with be Dwight Yoakam’s Special Guest!
\nDwight Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide \, and he is a 21-time nominated\, multiple Grammy Award Winner. He has 1 2 gold albums and 9 platinum albums\, with five of those albums topping Bi llboard’s Country Albums chart with another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nea rly 40 of Yoakam’s singles have charted on Billboard\, 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 prestigious award offered by the o rganization\, he will be inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of F ame in the Songwriter/Artist category at the 49th anniversary Gala on Octo ber 14\, 2019 in Nashville\, TN.
\nYoakam’s self-curated SiriusXM ch annel\, titled Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat ‘Where Country Went Mod’ launched in April of 2018. The channel celebrates the Bakersfield sou nd and those whom it has inspired. Guests have boasted the likes of Post M alone\, Lukas Nelson\, Beck\, Chris Hillman\, Jakob Dylan\, Mike Nesmith a nd Mickey Dolans\, Dave Alvin\, and Jackie DeShannon\, among others.
\nIn 2016\, Yoakam released his bluegrass album Swimmin’ Pools\, Movie St ars… on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of bluegrass luminaries\, thi s album boasts a collection of reinterpreted favorites from his catalogue\ , as well as a cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Produced by nine-time GRAM MY winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss\, Dolly Parton)\, Jon Randall (songw riter of “Whiskey Lullaby”)\, and Yoakam himself\, and mixed by Chris Lord -Alge\, this album reflects the love for bluegrass music that Yoakam devel oped at an early age in Kentucky and that has inspired him for many years thereafter. In 2018\, Yoakam released two songs\, “Pretty Horses” and “The n Came Monday” (the latter written with Chris Stapleton).
\nIn addit ion to his musical career\, Yoakam is a formidable film and television act or who has appeared in over 40 feature films\, including Sling Blade and P anic Room. Most recently he was on the big screen in Clint Eastwood’s late st film\, Cry Macho. He recurred in David E. Kelley’s Amazon series Goliat h and appeared in director Steven Soderbergh’s film Logan Lucky with Chann ing Tatum and Daniel Craig.
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