| Gone | 
 enlarge | Artist: Dwight Yoakam
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 9521
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 46051
UPC: 093624605126
EAN: 0093624605126
ASIN: B000002N2V
Release Date: October 31, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Sorry You Asked? | | • | Near You | | • | Don't Be Sad | | • | Gone (That'll Be Me) | | • | Nothing | | • | Never Hold You | | • | This Much I Know | | • | Baby Why Not | | • | One More Night | | • | Heart of Stone |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
With utter assurance and several shots of sly humor, Dwight Yoakam moved into his second decade of recording with Gone, his most daring album to date. Displaying a full command of styles as far afield as Al Green-style soul ("Nothing"), straight-up honky-tonk ("Don't Be Sad"), Tex-Mex polka ("Sorry You Asked?"), and classic Nashville Sound balladry ("Heart of Stone"), Yoakam also reaches the heart of his songs: this isn't a showoff genre-hopping move. It's more like the peak point of his catalog. --Rickey Wright
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| Customer Reviews: Read 10 more reviews...
 Too Good to Miss June 15, 2000
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is my favorite Dwight Yoakam album. It's not his best, nor does it have any one single "stand out" track (which might be why it missed out on any home run singles)--but as an =album= it hangs together beautifully. It has charm, style, and Dwight Yoakam sex appeal in abundance. In the tracks on this CD you can hear all of his many and distinctively different stylistic influences, from Hillbilly rock to Elvis in Vegas. There's a touch of the Beatles, a little Patsy Cline, a nod to Hank Sr., and it's all Dwight. Put it in and listen, beginning to end. You'll never be sorry.
Twang with a Twist January 18, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This album may surprise some folks who expect only traditional country sound from Yoakam. He was obviously experimenting here, and it works great! I've had this album since it first came out, and I'm still listening. Keep your ears open all the way through "Sorry You Asked", the lyrics are too good to miss. This one is for hard-core Dwightmaniacs (me) and also those who like a twist to their twang.
Dwight Rocks!!!!!!!!!! October 19, 1999
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dwight is one of the most talented artists in Country Music. His vast knowledge of country music gives an incredible musical vocabulary from which to work with. He is a first rate songwriter and his collobration with Pete Anderson makes for the best sound in country music today. His band is second to none and can play anything. Check out 'Never Hold You' it flat out rocks but yet with serious country twang. Get this album and everything Dwight has done.
Gone November 12, 2003
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is my favorite Dwight album. Although the songwriting was not as quality as *This Time*, the songs as a cohesively engaging album flow from one to another unlike anything else the man has ever recorded. The cover/insert artwork is also among his best, thematically coinciding with the music. Just look at those moody pictures of him reading the newspaper in the empty room and then brooding the night city streets with the hookers. I like how the record starts with four upbeat songs as he goes through the lovin' 'n leavin' stage, then slows down into the dark aftermath of cigarette smoke and salty tears. The music is a vibrant atmosphere of distorted guitars, melancholic organs, and sweeping strings. Songs like "Nothing", "One More Night" and "Don't Be Sad" rank among Dwight's finest, but again, it's the ten tracks as a whole that create a sharp, fast story that will really captivate the listener. Eclectic, mysterious, sexy, witty, those are the words that describe *Gone*. A true work of art!thank you
Genius August 19, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Dwight Yoakam has blended rock, country, and bluegrass with style and good taste for so long that he truly is at the top of the rock / country pantheon at this point. And this record is one of his very best -- which is saying something. Great playing, great (and clever) songwriting, and an iconic voice -- a tremendous package.
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