Album Review - Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc. [Deluxe 
Edition]

The genesis of Dwight Yoakam's now 20-year-old debut Guitars, Cadillacs, 
Etc. Etc. actually began five years earlier in 1981 when he, guitarist 
Jerry McGee, and producer Gordon Schyrock ventured into a recording 
studio to lay down a series of demos. Backed by an impressive band that 
included pianist Glen D. Hardin (The Crickets, Merle Haggard, Emmylou 
Harris), pedal steel guitarist Jay Dee Maness (Emmylou Harris, Desert 
Rose Band), and mandolinist/fiddle player David Mansfield (Bob Dylan's 
Rolling Thunder Revue), Yoakam created, in the wee hours of the morning, 
the template that since has guided his career. That the 10 tracks that 
open the deluxe edition of Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. were issued 
just a few years ago as part of the four-disc box set Reprise, Please 
Baby is moot; here, the song cycle attains its rightful place as the 
prelude to an EP-turned-album that -- along with early efforts by George 
Strait and Randy Travis -- helped to push country music away from its 
post-Urban Cowboy ennui and back toward its harder-edged roots.

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