{"product_id":"a-long-way-home-twelve-years-of-words-hardcover","title":"A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDwight Yoakam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDwight Yoakam has long been known to country music fans as a musiciam who is as much artist as he is superstar. Over the course of his fifteen-year career, he has received fourteen Grammy nominations. One reviewer described his work this way: \"Yoakam's lyrics--Leonard Cohen meets Ernest Tubb--work so well because they're literary without being high-minded. The artfulness of the words . . . doesn't always hit you until you read them on the lyric sheet.\"\u003ci\u003eNewsweek\u003c\/i\u003e called Yoakam's most recent record--titled, like his book, \u003ci\u003eA Long Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e--\"a daring departure. It's lush and languid, more introspective than hit-driven. He's looking for subtle emotions, melodic evocations of the distances between people, and he draws on sources as varied as Bobby Darin, Chet Baker, and Buck Owens to get there.\"\u003ci\u003eA Long Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e is the first collection of Yoakam's lyrics in book form. It spans his career, from such early albums as \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Deluxe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBuenas Noches from a Lonely Room\u003c\/i\u003e to the recently released, critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eA Long Way Home\u003c\/i\u003e. Yoakam's songwriting is really storytelling--he poetically writes of subjects ranging from God to drinking to love--and proves him to be as fine a writer as he is a musician.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDwight Yoakam\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Grammy Award winner and fourteen-time nominee. He is an acclaimed musician and songwriter and now actor, with critically appraised performances in such films as \u003cem\u003eSling Blade\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Newton Boys\u003c\/em\u003e. His 1998 release \u003cem\u003eA Long Way Home\u003c\/em\u003e made \u003cem\u003ePeople\u003c\/em\u003e magazine's Best of Song list. A native of Kentucky, Dwight Yoakam now lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 160\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.6 x 5.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53191540834611,"sku":"9780786865147","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/MXFjV2N0VURMOHBCeGJMblhHeklLdz09.webp?v=1775045075","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-long-way-home-twelve-years-of-words-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}