Dwight Yoakam performs on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival. (Charlotte Bray/Freelance Photographer)
After dazzling country fans at the Stagecoach Country Music Festival this spring, and not just because of his bedazzled jean jacket, Dwight Yoakam will return to the Coachella Valley in February 2014.
Yoakam will perform at Spotlight 29 Casino in Coachella on Saturday, Feb. 1 and tickets go on sale Friday, Oct. 25. They are priced at $45, $55 and $65 and will be available via www.Spotlight29.com, Star Tickets at 800-585-3737, or the Spotlight 29 Box Office and Gift Shop.
With his honky tonk sound, Yoakam was a pioneer in his early years in Los Angeles. He went from playing bills with bands like Los Angeles punkers X to finding his niche and recording with folks like Buck Owens, racking up hits like “Streets of Bakersfield,” with the aforementioned Owens, “I Sang Dixie” and “Honky Tonk Man.”
Yoakam’s 2012 effort, “3 Pears,” found the icon matched up with an interesting mix of artists, from Beck to Kid Rock.
And don’t discount his work as an actor, either. His acting was far better than Jared Leto’s weird cornrows in “Panic Room.”