A Long Way Home (1998)

About this title: As he entered his second decade of recording, Dwight Yoakam began to take more time between records. A three-year gap separated A Long Way Home from Gone -- the last time he went that long between albums of new material was 1990's If There Was a Way and 1993's This Time. As it happened, This Time was a masterpiece, a breakthrough of sorts in that it expanded Yoakam's already large stylistic trickbag. A Long Way Home doesn't rank with This Time, probably because it is an outgrowth of that leap forward instead of the leap itself, but like Gone, it is a rich, diverse, continually impressive ... read more

Tracks:

1. Same Fool [Yoakam]
2. The Curse [Yoakam]
3. Things Change [Yoakam]
4. Yet to Succeed [Yoakam]
5. I Wouldn't Put It Past Me [Yoakam]
6. These Arms [Yoakam]
7. That's Okay [Yoakam]
8. Only Want You More [Yoakam]
9. I'll Just Take These [Yoakam]
10. A Long Way Home [Yoakam]
11. Listen [Yoakam]
12. Traveler's Lantern [Yoakam]
13. Maybe You Like It, Maybe You Don't [Yoakam]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.