Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years [Box set]

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Though Dwight Yoakam casts himself as the classic outsider, no contemporary country artist has been able to achieve more mainstream success while retaining more alternative credibility. This four-disc set (including more than an entire disc of previously unreleased material) documents the uniqueness of Yoakam's musical legacy, as he combines a core commitment to the hard twang of honky-tonk--in breakthrough hits such as "Guitars, Cadillacs" and the Buck Owens duet "Streets of Bakersfield--with a stylistic expansiveness that knows no limits. In addition to his underrated strength as a songwriter, no other country artist could extend himself from Queen ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love") to Cheap Trick ("I Want You to Want Me") to the Clash ("Train in Vain"), while paying the obligatory tributes to Elvis Presley, George Jones, and Merle Haggard. The three new recordings may be inconsequential (a shuffle rendition of "Mercury Blues" holds the most interest), but the archive of previously unreleased material includes a 10-song demo from 1981 (before Yoakam's pivotal pairing with guitarist/producer/bandleader Pete Anderson), two duets with Kelly Willis, and the eight live performances that conclude the set. --Don McLeese

Product Description:
From his '86 multiplatinum debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. through '01s South Of Heaven, West Of Hell, this expansive 4-CD boxed set culls material from Yoakam's entire Warner Bros. career. Presents 87 tracks circa 1981-2002, encompassing singles, album, cuts, previously unissued material, rarities, and soundtrack selections.

Contains 3 brand new recordings (exclusively available to this set): "Sittin' Pretty," "Louisville," and "Mercury Blues."

Includes a full disc comprised of nothing but previously unreleased material, including rare early demos from 1981, and live gems from various venues spanning nearly a decade, including renditions of "Truckin'," and "Mystery Train."

Also features Yoakam's contributions to tribute albums honoring Kinky Friedman, Merle Haggard, Bob Willis & The Texas Playboys, and ZZ Top.

Includes guest appearances by Buck Owens, Kelly Willis, Asleep At The Wheel, Patty Loveless, Bekka Bramlett, Flaco Jimenez, and Sheryl Crow.

Deluxe booklet features rare photos and tributes from Yoakam devotees including Dennis Hopper, Billy Gibbons, Dave Alvin, and Buck Owens.

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Includes a song that you cant find anywhere else!

Rhino Does It Again! But Pete Anderson Deserves More Props!

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Reprise Please Baby: Pleases this Fan

Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years
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ASIN: B00006WL2D
Release Date: 2002-11-19

Tracks:

Honky Tonk Man
Guitars, Cadillacs
It Won't Hurt
Miner's Prayer
Little Sister
Little Ways
Please, Please Baby
Always Late With Your Kisses
This Drinkin' Will Kill Me
Streets of Bakersfield (with Buck Owens)
I Sang Dixie
I Got You
I Hear You Knockin'
Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)
Long White Cadillac
Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose
You're The One
Nothing's Changed Here
It Only Hurts When I Cry
The Heart That You Own
The Distance Between You And Me
Dangerous Man
Send A Message To My Heart (with Patty Loveless)
Takes A Lot To Rock You

Tracks:

Carmelita (Flaco Jimenez featuring Dwight Yoakam)
Suspicious Minds (live)
Doin' What I Did
Hey Little Girl
Ain't That Lonely Yet
A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
Try Not To Look So Pretty
Pocket of a Clown
Home For Sale
Fast As You
King of Fools
Holding Things Together
Nothing
Don't Be Sad
Sorry You Asked?
Gone (That'll Be Me)
Claudette
Baby Don't Go (with Sheryl Crow)
Train In Vain
Rapid City, South Dakota

Tracks:

Only Want You More
Same Fool
Things Change
These Arms
A Long Way Home
Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Thinking About Leaving
New San Antonio Rose (Asleep At The Wheel featuring Dwight Yoakam)
Two Doors Down (Acoustic)
Bury Me (Acoustic)
Love Caught Up To Me
What Do You Know About Love
Free To Go
A Place To Cry
I Want You To Want Me
Alright, I'm Wrong (with Buck Owens)
Who At The Door is Standing (with Bekka Bramlett)
The First Thing Smokin'
I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
Louisville
Sittin' Pretty
Mercury Blues

Tracks:

This Drinkin' Will Kill Me
It Won't Hurt
I'll Be Gone
Floyd County
You're The One
Twenty Years
Please Daddy
Miner's Prayer
I Sang Dixie
Bury Me
Golden Ring (with Kelly Willis)
Take Me (with Kelly Willis)
Sin City (Live)
Truckin' (Live)
Grand Tour (Live)
Oh Lonesome Me (Live)
Today I Started Loving You Again (Live)
Mystery Train (Live)
Can't You Hear Me Calling (Live)
Heartaches By The Number (Live)
My Bucket's Got A Hole In It (Live)

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Though Dwight Yoakam casts himself as the classic outsider, no contemporary country artist has been able to achieve more mainstream success while retaining more alternative credibility. This four-disc set (including more than an entire disc of previously unreleased material) documents the uniqueness of Yoakam's musical legacy, as he combines a core commitment to the hard twang of honky-tonk--in breakthrough hits such as "Guitars, Cadillacs" and the Buck Owens duet "Streets of Bakersfield--with a stylistic expansiveness that knows no limits. In addition to his underrated strength as a songwriter, no other country artist could extend himself from Queen ("Crazy Little Thing Called Love") to Cheap Trick ("I Want You to Want Me") to the Clash ("Train in Vain"), while paying the obligatory tributes to Elvis Presley, George Jones, and Merle Haggard. The three new recordings may be inconsequential (a shuffle rendition of "Mercury Blues" holds the most interest), but the archive of previously unreleased material includes a 10-song demo from 1981 (before Yoakam's pivotal pairing with guitarist/producer/bandleader Pete Anderson), two duets with Kelly Willis, and the eight live performances that conclude the set. --Don McLeese

Album Description

From his '86 multiplatinum debut Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. through '01s South Of Heaven, West Of Hell, this expansive 4-CD boxed set culls material from Yoakam's entire Warner Bros. career. Presents 87 tracks circa 1981-2002, encompassing singles, album, cuts, previously unissued material, rarities, and soundtrack selections.

Contains 3 brand new recordings (exclusively available to this set): "Sittin' Pretty," "Louisville," and "Mercury Blues."

Also features Yoakam's contributions to tribute albums honoring Kinky Friedman, Merle Haggard, Bob Willis & The Texas Playboys, and ZZ Top.

Includes guest appearances by Buck Owens, Kelly Willis, Asleep At The Wheel, Patty Loveless, Bekka Bramlett, Flaco Jimenez, and Sheryl Crow.

Deluxe booklet features rare photos and tributes from Yoakam devotees including Dennis Hopper, Billy Gibbons, Dave Alvin, and Buck Owens.

Album Description

Full Title - Reprise Please Baby The Warner Bros. Years. From his '86 multi platinum debut Guitars, Cadillac's, Etc., Etc. through '01s South Of Heaven and West Of Hell, this expansive 4CD boxed set culls material from Yoakam's entire Warner Bros. Career. 87 tracks encompassing singles, album cuts, previously unissued material, rarities and soundtrack selections. Long hard-back digi-book includes a deluxe book with rare photos and tip o' the hat from Buck Owens, Billy Gibbons, Dennis Hopper and Dave Alvin. Reprise/Rhino. 2002.

Customer Reviews:

One of the Best Box Sets Available.......2006-03-31

Here is an incredible collection of "Modern" Country Classics from the premiere "Modern" Country musicians. This is a 4 CD set (along with a fine booklet) that begins with Dwight's first album "Guitars, Cadillacs, ...", and continues through "Tomorrow's Sound Today". On the way, there are a few live songs, some acoustic versions, and some great duets. While many Box sets stop at 2 or 3 discs, this set includes a 4th disc of 21 previously unreleased songs; and these numbers include some of the finest live tracks you'll ever hear, as well as two obscure duets with Kelly Willis. I have no complaints regarding this set; the sound is incredible and the selection is nearly perfect. Let's all hope that Dwight continues releasing albums so that in another 10 years, we can have a second box set. Buy this one. A++++++

Includes a song that you cant find anywhere else!.......2004-07-26

The reason this compliation deserves 5 stars is because of the accompanying fourth disc that has nothing on it but brand new tracks; and most importantly, the track titled Please Daddy. This song has to be the BEST song that he has EVER recorded in his ENTIRE career. Just listen to it, and you will find out why. The fourth disc also has some very interesting "revised" tracks of his. This means that he took some of his older songs and re-did them. It would be safe to say that he majorly screwd up some of them, but he did "Floyd County" and "Twenty Years" fairly well. There are also some other newly recorded tracks as well as some live ones, but i dont care much for those.

As for the other three discs, they pretty much cover his entire career, from the beginning (Guitars Cadillacs) to his Souh of Heaven West of Hell Soundtrack. There are a few other pretty good unreleased tracks on the other discs as well.

So if you can afford it, I reccomend you buy this box set. It is worth buying it just for that one song. And heck, if you are a REAL Dwight fan, i'd say buy it for the heck of it! 86 songs covering his entire carrer from the beginning to 2001; you cant go wrong!

Rhino Does It Again! But Pete Anderson Deserves More Props!.......2003-02-04

At the risk of making this review sound like the Rhino Records Appreciation Society, is there anything this company can't do when it comes to the world of re-issues, compendiums, and best-ofs? There's nothing really fancy or gimmicky about this Dwight Yoakam box - no hard-to-store novelty packaging, no DVD's, and no gristle. The first three discs draw the cream of the crop from Yoakam's studio releases, his guest appearances on the albums of others (including a surprise take on Syndicate Of Sound's "Hey Little Girl"), and three brand new recordings, while the fourth disc is comprised entirely of previously unreleased studio and live material, including demos cut in 1981 before earning his first recording contract. The three new cuts, "Louisville," "Sittin' Pretty," and "Mercury Blues," all carry the magic imprint of Yoakam's secret weapon - producer, arranger, and lead guitarist Pete Anderson - whose signature twang is every bit a part of Yoakam's sound as Dwight's own hiccuping, hillbilly croon. Throw in a booklet full of photos, testimonials and classy liner notes by Holly George-Warren and you've got another no brainer courtesy of the compilation geniuses at Rhino.

Definitive Dwight.......2003-01-21

When Dwight Yoakam emerged on country radio in 1986 with a cover of Johnny Horton's "Honky Tonk Man," few would have guessed that he would outlast goldenboy labelmate Randy Travis as a commercial commodity. Yet outlast Travis, the Kentucky-born, Ohio-raised, Bakersfield-influenced singer songwriter did, creating a sizable alt-country niche that continues in spite of increasingly reduced radio play over the years. Capturing the highlights of Yoakam's enduring, consistently high quality contributions to country music is this four disc, 87 track collection, containing all the hits, plus key album tracks, tribute offerings, duets, covers, soundtrack efforts, and a sizable sampling of live recordings (whew!).

Disc one chronicles Yoakam the hitmaker, with the CD comprised of tracks from his first four albums: Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (1986), Hillbilly Deluxe (1987), Buenos Nochas From A Lonely Room (1988), and If There Was A Way (1990). With Pete Anderson on board from the start as producer and guitarist extraordinaire, Yoakam's lonesome tenor connects nicely - and charts highly - with everything he touches during this period, be it the honkytonkin' "It Only Hurts When I Cry," the tearjerker "I Sang Dixie," or the rockabilly Elvis fave "Little Sister." Through his chartopping, toetapping duet with Buck Owens on "Streets Of Bakersfield," as well as a faithful remake of Lefty Frizzell's "Always Late With Your Kisses," Yoakam was also able to introduce some of his musical influences to young listeners. The only omission of note from this early phase is his stark, soulful "Sin City" duet with k.d. lang, originally found on Yoakam's first collection Just Lookin' For A Hit (1989).

While the contents of disc one are predictable and satisfying, disc two (summarizing Yoakam's 1992 through early 1998 output) is an eclectic mix of varying quality. Yoakam's moving duet with Flaco Jimenez on Warren Zevon's sordid drug tale "Carmelita" (from Jimenez's Partners CD) gets it started, followed by a so-so live rendition of "Suspicious Minds" (his original take - available on Last Chance For A Thousand Years, among other places - was superior). Two scorching tracks ("Doin' What I Do," "Hey Little Girl") from the import-only La Croix D'Amour find Yoakam rockin' hard and effectively, then three recordings from his sub-par Under The Covers close the disc. They include the album's lone standout, a bluegrass take on the Clash's "Train In Vain," as well as a mismatched duet with Sheryl Crow on Sonny & Cher's "Baby Don't Go." These covers surround seven tracks from Yoakam's preeminent release, 1993's This Time. With the haunting jangle of "Ain't That Lonely Yet," the percolating "Fast As You," the sparse "Try Not To Look So Pretty," and the blaring "A Thousand Miles From Nowhere" among its gems, This Time is a modern country masterpiece that exploded the boundaries of the Bakersfield sound. Nice to see it so heftily represented here.

The equally diverse disc three covers Yoakam's most recent work (1998 to the present). As country airwaves became increasingly watered down with pop, his greatest radio success (aside from the shimmering "Things Change" from 1998's excellent A Long Way Home) lie in countrified covers of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and Cheap Trick's "I Want You To Want Me." Side projects (including the snappy Bob Wills' tribute "San Antonio Rose" with Asleep At The Wheel and the swampy ZZ Top tribute "I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide") offered some fine diversions from recent albums: the sparse dwightyoakamacoustic.net (2000), the successful return to roots Tomorrow's Sounds Today (2000), and the noisy soundtrack South Of Heaven, West Of Hell (2001). Three new recordings (a mundane "Louisville," a hiccupy "Sittin' Pretty," and a shufflin' version of "Mercury Blues" - currently being used for car commercials - end the disc on a flat note.

Disc four is for the Yoakam collector, with its 21 previously unreleased tracks. Leading off is ten self-produced demos from 1981. All but "Please Daddy" would appear in slightly altered versions on his first four Warner Brothers albums and, while lacking Pete Anderson's polish, each track is far better than most of what is pedaled by today's country hitmakers. A pair of George 'n Tammy-type duets with Kelly Willis as well as a solo version of the aforementioned "Sin City" go down easy, if not memorably, followed by eight live covers. Aside from a drawn out, sonically impaired rendition of the Grateful Dead's "Truckin" (Yoakam's studio rendition from 1991's tribute album Deadicated was far better), these live recordings - especially the full throttle "Mystery Train" and "Can't You Hear Me Calling" - really hit the spot. They also serve to remind the listener that in addition to being one of modern country's most gifted singers and songwriters, Yoakam is one of its greatest performers.

Though this box set is fairly comprehensive, several of Yoakam's guest vocals over the years did not make it onto this retrospective (the recent Johnny Cash tribute album and Will The Circle Be Unbroken III for starters). Yoakam's 1997 holiday CD Come On Christmas was completely ignored as well. Look for their inclusion on the upcoming seventeen-CD Yoakam retrospective, also compiled by Rhino. If you can afford it.

Reprise Please Baby: Pleases this Fan.......2003-01-15

Each of the four discs contains *tons* of hits, recommended listening for All Fans of Great Country/Hillbilly Rock!!

Live early stuff, with the raw Yoakam Sound, that one by itself is worth buying this box set, and with the bonus of the nicely crafted hard bound book that the four discs are tucked in front and back covers, makes for one nice piece of Music Memorabilia thruout all time!!

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