Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years

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Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years
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Compilation album by
Dwight Yoakam
ReleasedNovember 19, 2002 (2002-11-19)
Genre Country
Length302:22
LanguageEnglish
Label Reprise/Warner Bros.
Producer Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam chronology
South of Heaven, West of Hell
(2001)		Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years
(2002)		 Population Me
(2003)

You combine drummers with mountain people, and you've got hillbilly music. That's what we're doing: Bill Monroe with drums.

Contents

—Yoakam in the liner notes to Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years

Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years is a 2002 box set of songs by American country musician Dwight Yoakam, highlighting his career on Reprise Records and Warner Bros. Records, along with his initial 1981 demos and two new tracks. [1] It has received positive reviews from critics.

Reception

Writing for The A. V. Club , Stephen Thompson stated that this compilation "has more than settled any arguments about Yoakam's rightful place in modern country's canon" by including material from his "fine" 1980s releases as well as the musician's "immensely satisfying but lesser-known '90s catalog". [2] Editors at AllMusic rated this album 5 out of 5 stars, with critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine writing that "on Rhino's excellent four-disc box set" Yoakam's influence on country music is display with "a superb chronicling of his time at Reprise/Warner Records" that "doesn't focus simply on the hits", adding up to music that is "all necessary to understanding Yoakam's music and his influence". [3] Jim Caligiuri of The Austin Chronicle also rated this box set 5 out of 5 stars, characterizing it as "a testament to a talent unmatched in many ways" and "a marvelous first chapter in a career that shows no signs of slowing down". [4] In a brief overview of box sets released at the end of 2002, Neil Strauss stated that the best part of Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years was the fourth disc of previously unreleased studio and live material and continued that "in this set, one can hear [Yoakam']s stubborn traditionalism and his innate eclecticism intertwine as two decades roll by". [5] No Depression 's review stated that "so many good points jump out of the speakers here", displaying that "Yoakam is equally at home with all forms of country from the second half of the 20th century". [6]

Track listing

All songs written by Dwight Yoakam, except where noted.

Disc 1

  1. "Honky Tonk Man" (Tillman Franks, Howard Hausey, and Johnny Horton) – 2:48
  2. "Guitars, Cadillacs" – 3:05
  3. "It Won’t Hurt" – 3:05
  4. "Miner’s Prayer" – 2:19
  5. "Little Sister" (Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman) – 3:03
  6. "Little Ways" – 3:21
  7. "Please, Please Baby" – 3:35
  8. "Always Late with Your Kisses" (Blackie Crawford and Lefty Frizzell) – 2:11
  9. "This Drinkin’ Will Kill Me" – 2:34
  10. "Streets of Bakersfield" (Homer Joy) – 2:50
  11. "I Sang Dixie" – 3:49
  12. "I Got You" – 3:29
  13. "I Hear You Knockin’" (Dave Bartholomew, Pearl King, and J. D. Miller) – 3:15
  14. "Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)" – 4:33
  15. "Long White Cadillac" (Dave Alvin) – 5:19
  16. "Turn It On, Turn It Up, Turn Me Loose" (Kostas and Wayland Patton) – 3:25
  17. "You’re the One" – 4:00
  18. "Nothing’s Changed Here" (Kostas and Yoakam) – 2:58
  19. "It Only Hurts When I Cry" (Roger Miller and Yoakam) – 2:35
  20. "The Heart That You Own" – 3:10
  21. "The Distance Between You and Me" – 2:42
  22. "Dangerous Man" – 4:18
  23. "Send a Message to My Heart" (Kostas and Kathy Louvin) – 3:16
  24. "Takes a Lot to Rock You" – 2:57

Disc 2

  1. "Carmelita" (Warren Zevon) – 3:25
  2. "Suspicious Minds" (live) (Mark James) – 6:55
  3. "Doin’ What I Did" – 3:26
  4. "Hey Little Girl" (Don Baskin and Robert Gonzales) – 2:32
  5. "Ain’t That Lonely Yet" (James House and Kostas) – 3:19
  6. "A Thousand Miles from Nowhere" – 4:29
  7. "Try Not to Look So Pretty" (Kostas and Yoakam) – 2:56
  8. "Pocket of a Clown" – 2:57
  9. "Home for Sale" – 3:39
  10. "Fast as You" – 4:47
  11. "King of Fools" (Kostas and Yoakam) – 4:05
  12. "Holding Things Together" (Merle Haggard and Bob Totten) – 2:37
  13. "Nothing" (Kostas and Yoakam) – 3:53
  14. "Don’t Be Sad" – 3:20
  15. "Sorry You Asked?" – 3:23
  16. "Gone (That’ll Be Me)" – 2:49
  17. "Claudette" (Roy Orbison) – 2:56
  18. "Baby Don’t Go" (Sonny Bono) – 4:00
  19. "Train in Vain" (Mick Jones and Joe Strummer) – 3:23
  20. "Rapid City, South Dakota" (Kinky Friedman) – 2:49

Disc 3

  1. "Only Want You More" – 3:22
  2. "Same Fool" – 3:02
  3. "Things Change" – 3:45
  4. "These Arms" – 3:31
  5. "A Long Way Home" – 2:55
  6. "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" (Freddie Mercury) – 2:22
  7. "Thinking About Leaving" (Rodney Crowell and Yoakam) – 3:56
  8. "New San Antonio Rose" (Bob Wills) – 3:03
  9. "Two Doors Down" (acoustic) (Kostas and Yoakam) – 4:38
  10. "Bury Me" (acoustic) – 3:13
  11. "Love Caught Up to Me" – 3:50
  12. "What Do You Know About Love" – 2:56
  13. "Free to Go" – 4:48
  14. "A Place to Cry" – 4:35
  15. "I Want You to Want Me" (Rick Nielsen) – 3:28
  16. "Alright, I’m Wrong" (Pete Anderson and Cisco) – 4:16
  17. "Who at the Door Is Standing" – 2:33
  18. "The First Thing Smokin’" (Billy Gibbons and Yoakam) – 3:41
  19. "I’m Bad, I’m Nationwide" (Frank Beard, Gibbons, and Dusty Hill) – 4:13
  20. "Louisville" (Jann Browne and Pat Gallagher) – 3:04
  21. "Sittin’ Pretty" – 2:24
  22. "Mercury Blues" (K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins) – 2:25

Disc 4

  1. "This Drinkin’ Will Kill Me" – 3:11
  2. "It Won’t Hurt" – 3:47
  3. "I’ll Be Gone" – 3:25
  4. "Floyd County" – 2:38
  5. "You’re the One" – 4:03
  6. "Twenty Years" – 3:03
  7. "Please Daddy" – 3:20
  8. "Miner’s Prayer" – 2:44
  9. "I Sang Dixie" – 3:46
  10. "Bury Me" – 3:01
  11. "Golden Ring" (Bobby Braddock, Robert Valentine Braddock, and Rafe Van Hoy) – 3:15
  12. "Take Me" (George Jones and Leon Payne) – 2:20
  13. "Sin City" (Chris Hillman and Gram Parsons) – 4:02
  14. "Truckin’" (live) (Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Phil Lesh, and Bob Weir) – 7:22
  15. "Grand Tour" (live) (George Richey, Carmol Taylor, and Norris "Norro" Wilson) – 3:42
  16. "Oh Lonesome Me" (live) (Don Gibson) – 3:29
  17. "Today I Started Loving You Again" (live) (Haggard and Bonnie Owens) – 4:30
  18. "Mystery Train" (live) (Junior Parker and Sam Phillips) – 3:11
  19. "Can’t You Hear Me Calling" (live) (Bill Monroe) – 3:20
  20. "Heartaches by the Number" (live) (Harlan Howard) – 3:42
  21. "My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It" (live) (Louis Armstrong, Velma Middleton, Clarence Williams, and Hank Williams) – 4:12

Personnel

Musicians

Technical personnel


See also

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