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Live in-Studio: Dwight Yoakam

August 15, 2013Arts, Culture & Media

Among country superstars, Dwight Yoakam has always been a guy who didn’t fit in. A cool, mysterious dude in a crowd of boys next door. An Appalachian-turned-Angeleno who spurned Nashville.

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