>Yoakam Plans Best-Of Set, Tour > > A new album and tour are just some of the > things that will be keeping Dwight Yoakam > busy this spring. The prolific country artist is > compiling a collection of his recent material > for "Last Chance For A Thousand Years: > Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits From The > '90s"; the set, to be released in May by > Reprise, will feature 11 favorites and three > new songs. In support of the compilation, > Yoakam will launch a North American tour beginning at the > end of June and continuing through early September. > > In addition, Yoakam will issue a book of lyrics, titled "A Long > Way Home: Twelve Years Of Words," April 18 through > Hyperion. The tome, which is a complete collection of 61 song > lyrics that the Grammy winner wrote or co-wrote, will span > Yoakam's entire Reprise recording career, beginning with the > tracks he penned for his 1986 debut set, "Guitars, Cadillacs, > Etc., Etc.," and concluding with his last studio album, 1998's > "A Long Way Home." The book will include an introduction > penned by Yoakam. > "The truth ain't always what we need, sometimes we need to hear a beautiful lie." -Bill Lloyd
