On his first album in nearly a decade, Dwight Yoakam is getting a little help from a musician who wasn’t even a country artist when his last album came out. “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye ...

"He had a little Fender Telecaster-shaped ukulele he would wear," Yoakam recalls. "He came bouncing in the room one day and said, ‘Get your guitar.' I picked it up and he would attempt to answer ...

Dwight Yoakam on Postponing His Album Release ... The unexpected invitation came while they were rehearsing their performance of Yoakam’s “Little Ways” at the Stagecoach festival.

With the sun setting over the vast expanse of Los Angeles, Dwight Yoakam sighed ... and stood on the side stage,” Yoakam said. “He’d be there with his little Telecaster ukulele playing ...

For about three hours, Dwight Yoakam ... he and Yoakam stayed in touch and became friends. In April, the pair performed Yoakam’s 1987 song “Little Ways” at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio.

(In 2007, he released a full album of studio-recorded Owens songs, called Dwight Sings Buck.) Later in the night, Yoakam delivered a country-fied version of Queen’s “Crazy Little Thing Called ...

Dwight Yoakam wasn’t looking to write a song when “Brighter Days” came to him. Instead, he was sharing a moment with his son and the song came to him. “He had a little Fender Telecaster ...

“He had a little Fender Telecaster-shaped ukulele he would wear,” Yoakam recalls. “He came bouncing in the room one day and said, ‘Get your guitar.’ I picked it up and he would attempt ...