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Where There's Smoke There's Fire is an album by the American musician Buckwheat Zydeco, released in 1990. Zydeco and his band, Ils Sont Partis, supported the album with a North American tour. The album peaked at No. 140 on the Billboard 200.
- 1990
- Island
- "The Late Great Golden State"
- "Crazy Little Thing called Love"
- "Buenas Noches from A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)"
- "I Sang Dixie"
- "Suspicious Minds"
- "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere"
- "Little Ways"
- "Honky Tonk Man"
- "Streets of Bakersfield"
- "Guitars, Cadillacs"
Kentucky-born Yoakam found his earliest success in Los Angeles in the 1980s, right as the punk scene there began exploring the Bakersfield and Laurel Canyonlegacies with cowpunk. His cover of The Blasters' "Long White Cadillac" looks back to those times. Another way Yoakam paid tribute to California came through this interpretation of a Mike Stinso...
The most successful example of Yoakam looking outside the works of country legends for song material remains his honky-tonk re-imagining of Queen. It's easy in a post-Sgt. Pepper's world to value songwriters above all else, but it's a country music tradition for singers to add their own voice to some of their favorite popular songs.
Yoakam adds a little Spanish flair, in the spirit of Marty Robbins, with this original composition. It's a great reminder of the international influences that shaped the sound of country music over time. Plus, it's the title track from one of Yoakam's definitive Reprise Records albums.
Yoakam took this original composition to the top of the Billboard singles chart in 1989. Country fans then responded in droves to a heart-wrenching tale of a Southerner dying alone on the streets of Los Angeles. His only solace came from a stranger, willing to speak words of encouragement after singing a few familiar lines of "Dixie."
Yoakam often visited the music of a fellow Southerner with an IMDB page for his acting chops. "Suspicious Minds," a definite statement of Elvis Presley's post-'68 Comeback Special output, further resounds with country music audiences when it's performed by Yoakam. Two other Presley covers, "Little Sister" and "Mystery Train," are just as memorable.
The jewel of Yoakam's 21st-century output rocks like a Roy Orbison single. It's a Yoakam original, in line with all the great songs about the broken hearted's struggle to focus on anything else. It's the right blend of memorable guitar riffs and sadly relatable lyrics, in the mold of some of Merle Haggard'sbest-loved songs.
To create the next best thing to Buck Owens' Capitol Records output, Yoakam mirrored an all-time great's vocal delivery and lyrical preferences. This memorable cut from 1987's Hillbilly Deluxe album served as a sign of things to come. Yoakam was a year away from finding himself forever joined at the hip with Owens' latter-day musical legacy.
https://youtu.be/hT2sdgBtAW8 Only Marty Stuart makes as much a point as Yoakam to teach fans about country music's rich past. Yoakam came right out the gate informing while entertaining. One of his first career-defining singles directed the listener's attention to this song's original performer, the late Johnny Horton.
Yoakam's first chart-topper and greatest CMA Awards memory rejuvenated the career of his Bakersfield Sound hero, Buck Owens. This dream duet from 1988 taught listeners a couple of lessons. First, Owens deserved to be recognized as more than just the guy from Hee Haw. Further, fans got a friendly reminder that Bakersfield once offered a creative alt...
The opening statement of Yoakam's ongoing career, and the introduction of his strikingly cool image, remains one of his most resounding greatest hits. The Bakersfield-influenced "Guitars, Cadillacs" remains synonymous with Yoakam's career, and for good reason. It sums up a country singer with an appreciation for other forms of pop, from Elvis Presl...
23 lug 2018 · After leaving the country music machine of Nashville, Yoakam headed west to California to stake a claim in the music of the true West, looking to Buck Owens and the Bakersfield sound, and space cowboy Gram Parsons. But it's Yoakam's early days trying to break into the business in L.A. that lit the fire that has fueled his career.
14 mag 2017 · Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire (MCA Special Products, 1990) Buckwheat’s Zydeco Party (Rounder Records, 1992) On Track (Atlantic Records, 1992) Menagerie: The Essential Zydeco Collection (Mango Records, 1993) Choo Choo Boogaloo (Music For Little People, 1994) Five Card Stud (Island Records, 1994) Trouble (Tomorrow Recordings, 1997)
Stanley Dural Jr. (November 14, 1947 – September 24, 2016), [1] [2] better known by his stage name Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band [3] ("Ils Sont Partis" being ...
25 lug 2006 · The album was produced by Los Lobos' David Hidalgo and featured Dwight Yoakam sitting in on a cover of Hank Williams's "Hey, Good Lookin'." There's also a cover of the Rolling Stones' "Beast of Burden" and a version of "Route 66" featuring Hidalgo on vocals and guitar.
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Where There's Smoke There's Fire, an Album by Buckwheat Zydeco. Released in 1990 on Island (catalog no. 842 925-2; CD). Genres: Zydeco. Rated #1129 in the best albums of 1990.
