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Dwight Yoakam

  • Modell Performing Acrts Center at the Lyric 140 West Mount Royal Avenue Baltimore, MD, 21201 United States (map)

The grass isn’t always greener on the other side, or bluer in this case, which may be why Dwight Yoakam hadn’t thought of doing a bluegrass album over the years. It was always already implicit in his music, from “Miner’s Prayer” on his first album 30 years ago to his one-off collaborations with Ralph Stanley and Earl Scruggs. If you listened hard, you could even hear that strain of mountain music in the melodies and harmonic sense of his most rocked-out country hits. He wasn’t consciously thinking through the years that he could bust out the mandolins to confirm his Kentucky bona fides – “Melodically, it’s just part of my nature,” Yoakam says, “part of the birthright, I guess, in my DNA.”

Earlier Event: September 8
The Manhattans featuring Gerald Alston
Later Event: September 8
Marco Antonio Solis