Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room

Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
Studio album by Dwight Yoakam
Released	August 2, 1988
Recorded	Capitol Studios "A", "B", and "C" Hollywood, CA
Genre	Country
Length	37:11
Label	Reprise
Producer	Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam chronology
Hillbilly Deluxe (1987) Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (1988) Just Lookin' for a Hit (1989)

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Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room is the third studio album by country singer Dwight Yoakam. The album contains Yoakam's first two No. 1 Hot Country Singles hits. The first was "Streets of Bakersfield," a duet with country music veteran Buck Owens, who had originally released a version of the song in 1973. The second was an original composition of Yoakam's called "I Sang Dixie." A third song on the album, "I Got You, also an original composition, rose to #5. The title song, "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)," also charted, but only to the #46 spot.^[1]

Track listing

CD

1. "I Got You" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:28
2. "One More Name" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:05
3. "What I Don't Know" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:46
4. "Home of the Blues" (Johnny Cash, Glenn Douglas, Lillie McAlpine) - 2:52
5. "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)" (Dwight Yoakam) - 4:31
6. "I Hear You Knockin'" (J.D. Miller) - 3:12
7. "I Sang Dixie" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:47
8. "Streets of Bakersfield" [with Buck Owens] (Homer Joy) - 2:48
9. "Floyd County" (Dwight Yoakam) - 2:55
10. "Send Me the Pillow" (Hank Locklin) - 3:00
11. "Hold On to God" (Dwight Yoakam) - 3:14

Personnel

• Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
• Pete Anderson – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, six-string bass guitar, background vocals, percussion; mandolin on "Send Me the Pillow"
• Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar
• Al Perkins – Dobro
• Taras Prodaniuk – bass guitar
• Dusty Wakeman – six-string bass guitar ("Hold On to God"), percussion
• Jeff Donavan – drums
• Don Reed – fiddle
• Skip Edwards – piano
• Scott Joss – mandolin
• Flaco Jiménez – accordion
• Maria McKee – background vocals on "Send Me the Pillow"
• Buck Owens – duet vocals on "Streets of Bakersfield"
• The Lonesome Strangers (Jeff Rymes and Randy Weeks) – background vocals on "Hold On to God"
• Jim Lauderdale – background vocals
• Brantley Kearns – background vocals on "What I Don't Know"

Chart performance

Album

Singles

Legacy

The album was one of Rolling Stones' highest rated albums of 1988, at number 14.^[2] The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.^[3] Writing in 2014, the alternative weekly Nashville Scene said the album "established him (Yoakam) as a master of persona, as well as an ingenious record-maker and self-deprecating songwriter."^[4]

References

External links

• Album online on Radio3Net a radio channel of Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company