Brighter Days - Dwight Yoakam

"Brighter days are up ahead, " declares Dwight Yoakam on the title track of his new album Brighter Days (Via Records/Thirty Tigers), his first release of new original material in nine years. 

Written and recorded over the last three years, Brighter Days features 12 brand-new songs written/co-written by Yoakam, as well as two seemingly disparate covers of Keep On The Sunny Side by the Carter Family and Bound Away by Cake, artfully woven into the same body of work in the unmistakable style that could only be Dwight Yoakam. 

The infectious lead single I Don't Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom), was written by Yoakam specifically for a collaboration with self-proclaimed Dwight Yoakam superfan, Post Malone. At once timeless and timely, in fact downright cowpunk-tual, Yoakam self-produced Brighter Days, blending a modern reverence for the history of country music with the pioneering rock and roll spirit of California. 

1. Wide Open Heart
2. I'll Pay the Price
3. Bound Away
4. California Sky
5. Can't Be Wrong
6. I Spell Love
7. A Dream That Never Ends
8. Brighter Days
9. I Don't Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom) (Feat. Post Malone)
10. If Only
11. Hand Me Down Heart
12. Time Between
13. Keep on the Sunny Side
14. Every Night