The Dow Event Center Theater
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 5 of those albums topping Billboard’s Country Albums chart and another 14 landing in the Top 10. Nearly 40 of Yoakum’s singles have charted on Billboard, with 14 peaking in the Top 10.
In September of 2016, Yoakam released his first-ever 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, 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.