Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Country music is a wide-ranging genre descriptor, and many ...

Photos by Brian Bowen Smith Forty years after the release show for his debut EP at the Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip, country star Dwight Yoakam returned to deliver a blazing set. The difference ...

Through the window of an upper floor office in West Hollywood, the sky changed from cyan to navy and then indigo blue. The lights of Century City flicked on in the distance, and the expansive view of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Perhaps the biggest curveball came October 16 in Indianapolis, Indiana when he played John Mellencamp’s “Longest Days.” It’s a ...

Though Dwight Yoakam seems a freewheeling conversationalist, he's always firmly in control of how the 120-mile stretch between Bakersfield, California, and Los Angeles is preserved alongside the roots ...

Two acclaimed country singer-songwriters will make their Paycom Center debuts in 2025. Nashville Songwriters Hall of Famer Dwight Yoakam will bring his "Cosmic Roundup & Rodeo Tour 2025" to Oklahoma ...

During his fundraising concert, Dwight Yoakam received a special surprise when Billy Bob Thornton decided to call.

Get ready for an unforgettable night as country-music icon Dwight Yoakam brings his signature Bakersfield sound to the stage Feb. 12 at Buddy Holly Hall in Lubbock. With a catalogue of classics such ...

Bob Dylan has spent the past few weeks spotlighting local artists and city-specific songs while cross-crossing America on his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour. It began October 1 in Kansas City when he ...