by Dwight Yoakam · Da Capo · tapa dura · ISBN 9780786865147
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«A Long Way Home: Twelve Years of Words», by Dwight Yoakam, is the collection of country lyrics published by Da Capo in hardcover (160 pages, in English).
The book brings together for the first time the lyrics of Dwight Yoakam, written over fifteen years, from Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room to A Long Way Home. In Yoakam's texts, the musician acts as narrator: he speaks of love, faith and excess in a language close to poetry, compared with Leonard Cohen and Ernest Tubb.
First edition published on April 28, 1999; includes discography.
For fans of Dwight Yoakam, country music and the art of writing song lyrics.
