NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM announced
today that multiple GRAMMY Award-winner and country music icon,
Dwight Yoakam, will launch an
exclusive SiriusXM channel, Dwight
Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat "Where Country Went
Mod."
Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield
Beat, a channel curated by Dwight
Yoakam, will feature music from Yoakam's extensive career as
well as his musical friends.
Yoakam's SiriusXM channel will celebrate the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has
inspired including Buck Owens,
Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito
Brothers, Eagles, The Blasters, Lucinda
Williams and more. The channel will encompass all that is
California country and country
rock, in all of its various and varietal hybrid forms, from
Ricky Nelson to Emmylou Harris and Linda
Ronstadt and will also include artists from the movement in
LA in the early to middle 80s that Yoakam broke out of, and will
feature bands as diverse as X, Lone
Justice and Los Lobos. This movement was encapsulated on the
series of albums titled, A Town South of Bakersfield, and has led variations over
time to the current continuing country scene in LA, all of which
Yoakam has dubbed as a segment for his channel entitled "That Town
South of Bakersfield: "From Cow
Punks To Now Punks."
SiriusXM's Dwight Yoakam and The
Bakersfield Beat will launch in the spring. SiriusXM
subscribers will be able to listen to the channel on select
SiriusXM radios, and those with streaming access can listen online,
on-the-go with the SiriusXM mobile app and at home on a wide
variety of connected devices including smart TVs, Amazon Alexa
devices, Apple TV, PlayStation, Roku, Sonos speakers and more. Go
to www.SiriusXM.com/streaming to learn more.
"Dwight's musical career was so heavily influenced by the
Bakersfield sound and he returned
the compliment by producing decades of critically acclaimed music,"
said Scott Greenstein, President and
Chief Content Office of SiriusXM. "A full-time channel of
Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield
Beat added to our already powerful and diverse country music lineup
is a potent addition SiriusXM country music fans will love."
As a special preview, Dwight
Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat, will take over SiriusXM's
Prime Country starting Friday, February
23 at 5:00 pm ET through
Monday, February 26 at 3:00 am ET on channel 58.
In addition to his musical career, Yoakam is a respected film
and television actor, whose films include Sling
Blade and The Newton Boys. In 2016, he
appeared in David E. Kelley's Amazon
series, Goliath, and most recently in director
Steven Soderbergh's
feature, Logan Lucky,
with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig.
Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield
Beat, is an example of SiriusXM channels created with iconic and
leading artists, including Eminem's Shade 45, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Radio, The Beatles
Channel, Jimmy Buffett's Radio
Margaritaville, Garth Brooks' The
Garth Channel, Willie Nelson's
Willie's Roadhouse, Kenny Chesney's
No Shoes Radio, Tom Petty Radio, Pearl Jam Radio, B.B. King's
Bluesville, Elvis Radio, Siriusly Sinatra, and Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzy's Boneyard.
For more information on Dwight
Yoakam, visit www.dwightyoakam.com.
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