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Dwight Yoakam on Post Malone Collaboration and ‘Brighter Days,’ His First New Album in Nearly a Decade: ‘Brightness Is What We’re Hoping For’
Dwight Yoakam tells Billboard about what fueled his first album in nearly a decade.
His new album Brighter Days, out Friday (Nov. 15), was forged by years of life shifts, both personal and professional, and finds him moving ahead musically with a new set of inspirations. And the Great Depression, so you had two events, driving this displacement of large segments of our society to California and they brought their version of their colloquial musical expressions…It’s a winding story, but all of these tracks are connected in various ways,” he says. Just as he and his team were gearing up for its release, Yoakam got an unexpected invitation from Teas native Post Malone, known for his swirl of pop songs such as 2019’s “Circles” and “Sunflower,” to collaborate.
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