| This Time | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 6505
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 45241
UPC: 093624524120
EAN: 0093624524120
ASIN: B000002MJ8
Release Date: March 23, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Pocket of a Clown | | • | A Thousand Miles from Nowhere | | • | Home for Sale | | • | This Time | | • | Two Doors Down | | • | Ain't That Lonely Yet - Dwight Yoakam, Kostas [1] | | • | King of Fools | | • | Fast as You | | • | Try Not to Look So Pretty | | • | Wild Ride | | • | Lonesome Roads |
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Cover art, front: a behatted (of course) Dwight, face completely hidden. Back: a shapely, half-nude model sporting a Persistence of Memory-style clock eyeing a sink overflowing with water and calendar pages. Title tune: one of Yoakam's most hardcore Bakersfield 'tonkers. It sits alongside a couple of rockers, a handful of inspired weepers, and two inexorably flowing country-pop numbers ("A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" and "Ain't That Lonely Yet") that deserved every second of airplay they got. He'd be even better when he entered the studio again (for Gone), but the only slouching he does here is in the photographs. --Rickey Wright
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One of the best September 15, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
Outstanding album; one of the best ever released by any artist. I'd say this is one of the top 3 in Dwight's catalog of releases. There really are no words to describe the sound and mood found on these tracks, but this is definately "it". There seems to be a wide-open, vast, lonely feeling throughout this album, and whether the setting of the song begins in the desert or on a bar stool, you cannot help but feel damn near every word of the songs. I have always felt (and probably always will) that Dwight has no peers; but the mixing and outstanding engineering of the sound found here, deserves special mention. Well worth your money.
poety for"been there"cowboys,his voice is another instrument August 24, 1998
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
The Bakerfield Sound revisted : Like all of his other cd's Dwight can sing a song like no other singer I have heard. Emotion and "voice control" (for lack of better words) is so much a part of a D.Y. song, I wonder if he breathes oxygen when he records? All these are songs you want sing along to (as best we can.) Dwiight is to country music like Jimmy Buffett is to beach music. It has the style that tells it"s own storyThis CD is another fine product of Dwight and Pete Anderson. We can only hope they never tire of each others company. Every time he sings I can feel his words with a brand of country you CAN'T get radio stations to play enough of.Young Country needs to get some lessons from older artists or Dwight.Should say more but have to go.
Dwight is the best of his genre October 1, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
OK . . . Country music typicaly puts me to sleep. Each line rhymes, the beat is predictable, yadda yadda. Dwight is the exception. When all my friends were going crazy about Garth Brooks, I was listening to Dwight. I don't know much about country music, but I hear he is under-apprecated? Hello? I have nearly everything he has recorded, but this remains one of my favorites. Dwight is pure emotion, completely unpretentious, honest. My musical tastes range from Hip-Hop, R&B, POP to classical. One common tie between all of them . . . I appreciate GREAT music. This is one of Dwight's greatest, aside from his greatest hits compilations. "1000 Miles From Nowhere" and "It Ain't Over Yet" are just the tip of the iceburg of this man's enormous talent. I can only imagine that Dwight, himself, is a wonderful person with a great heart. His music certainly reflects that. It is worth the stigma of being "uncool" for listening to country. Dwight is the best, with one of the greatest voices ever. Check it out.
 Makes me feel a 1,000 miles from nowhere; a stunning album! June 18, 2000
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
For my money, Dwight Yoakam remains quite possibly the finest country artist around. He's certainly one of the most creative, and whilst he's always willing to try new influences and fresh ideas, he never tries to escape from his roots. Unlike many artists (Shania Twain and LeAnn Rimes the most obvious examples), Yoakam is a country artist through and through.THIS TIME, is seen by many as his greatest album, and it's hard to argue when you have bonafide classics such as FAST AS YOU, HOME FOR SALE, AIN'T THAT LONELY YET and especially the haunting masterpiece that is A THOUSAND MILES FROM NOWHERE. Dwight's timeless, haunting voice brings every song to life (even on TWO DOORS DOWN, the least memorable track of the album), and his knack of writing simple yet story-filled lyrics is quite simply awe-inspiring. Superb production by regular Pete Anderson acts as the icing on the cake, and THIS TIME can comfortably rank as one of the best country albums of the 90's, even if in my humble opinion, his best was yet to come with my favourite Yoakam album, A LONG WAY HOME, which acts as the perfect companion piece to THIS TIME. Classic, timeless country.
TIME IS ON HIS SIDE May 21, 1999
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cocky, egotistical, narcissistic, I always thought this Bakersfield Cowboy was a breed above your contemporary counytrypolitan yodelers. And this time, country's true outlaw offers a song selection that hits harder than a bullet on a gold pocket watch. Yoakam vocals sparkle brighter that rhinestone and the complement of a band playing tight as a new pair of blue jeans. This album contains the double-barrel fire of two instant classics: Dwight's self-penned A THOSAND MILES FROM NOWHERE, features echoed vocals and heart pounding drum breaks, and gets an extra tin star for regular spins on a local alternative FM station. AIN'T THAT LONELY YET weaves a plaintive web of deceit and betrayal. Dwight corralled the songwriting duo of up-and-comer, James House and Yoakam-colaborator, the mysterious maverick "Kostas". While those two bullets find the mark, just a notch below is a whole six-shooter full of pistol poppin' ditties. I love the traditional country balladry on Home For Sale, with its gospel organ and the way Dwight's singing, like an old clock, simply come to a full stop, then segues into the nifty guitar of the stompin' title cut. In King of Fools, listen for the walking bass line, honky tonk piano and waltzing fiddles. Pocket of a Clown, Two Doors Down, a quarter-century ago, these songs would have felt as comfortable as snake skin cowboy boots, on a George Jones LP. Like good songs and good boots, Yoakam fit just right, this time and any time. THIS TIME Kick the crap out of................ Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart
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