The Bottom Line
Pros
- "World of Blue"
- "Time Spent Missing You"
- "What Do You Know About Love"
Cons
- Absolutely none.
Description
- Includes the rockin' country cover of Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me."
- Features Buck Owens on two tracks, "Alright I'm Wrong" and "I Was There."
- Includes the first song Buck and Dwight wrote together, "The Sad Side Of Town."
Guide Review - Dwight Yoakam - Tomorrow's Sounds Today
The dawn of the 21st Century wasn't all that promising for country music in general. For years things had been bad and getting worse, but Dwight Yoakam never followed the mainstream, and his first offering for this new millennium was one of his strongest efforts to date. A disc that absolutely drips with honky-tonk feeling, "Tomorrow's Sounds Today" was named with Yoakam's patented tongue-in-cheek irony, as in many places he seems to be channeling Hank Williams. It's as though the title is telling us that yesterday's sounds are just as viable now as ever and will be for many tomorrows to come.Yoakam takes his rock-solid sound to new places with tracks like "Free to Go" and the two-steppin' "The Heartaches Are Free." Painful lyrics such as "Red, red drops that drip out from the bottom of my heart must mean that I'm living in a world of blue" are wound up in toe-tapping tunes that feature prominently the amazing steel guitar work of Gary Morse. Dwight teams up with old buddy Buck Owens for one songwriting spree, as well as two pleasant duets, including one a song written by long-time producer Pete Anderson (a first).
I'm not ashamed to say that "Tomorrow's Sounds Today" remains my personal favorite Dwight Yoakam album. There isn't a second on this disc that I don't like. I keep a copy in my desk at work as well as one at home. It truly is Yoakam at his very best.
