Dwight Yoakam has sold more than 25 million albums worldwide, and he is a 21-time nominated, multiple GRAMMY
Award winner. He has 12 gold albums and 9 platinum or multi-platinum albums, with five of those albums topping
Billboard’s Country Albums chart and another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakam’s singles have charted on
Billboard, with 14 peaking in the Top 10. Yoakam is a recipient of the Artist of the Year award from the Americana Music
Association, and BMI Country Music’s President’s Award, the most prestigious award offered by the organizations. He
was also inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in the Songwriter/Artist category at the 49th anniversary
Gala in 2019 in Nashville, TN.
Yoakam’s self-curated SiriusXM channel, titled Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat ‘Where Country Went Mod’
launched in April of 2018. The channel celebrates the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has inspired. Guests have
boasted the likes of Post Malone, Lukas Nelson, Beck, Chris Hillman, Jakob Dylan, Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolans, Dave
Alvin, and Jackie DeShannon, among others.
In 2016, Yoakam released his bluegrass album Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars… on Sugar Hill Records. Featuring a band of
bluegrass luminaries, this album boasts a collection of reinterpreted favorites from his catalogue, as well as a cover of
Prince’s “Purple Rain”. Produced by nine-time GRAMMY winner Gary Paczosa (Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton), Jon Randall
(songwriter of “Whiskey Lullaby”), and Yoakam himself, and mixed by Chris Lord-Alge, this album reflects the love for
bluegrass music that Yoakam developed at an early age in Kentucky and that has inspired him for many years
thereafter. In 2018, Yoakam released two songs, “Pretty Horses” and “Then Came Monday” (the latter written with Chris
Stapleton).
In addition to his musical career, Yoakam is a formidable film and television actor who has appeared in over 40 feature
films, including Sling Blade and Panic Room. In 2016, he recurred in David E. Kelley’s Amazon series Goliath. Recently, he
appeared in director Steven Soderbergh’s film Logan Lucky with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig. Yoakam is capable of
seamlessly melting into his roles and impressively standing toe-to-toe with some of the world’s top thespians over the
course of his storied and successful acting career, including Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Leto, Forest Whitaker and Matthew McConaughey.