Press Clipping 09/01/2007
Source: LATimes.com

Date: 09/01/2007
Headline: A loving tribute to Buck Owens: Dwight Yoakam says his new album is 'a way for me to say I loved him.'

"The scene is forlorn and a little unsettling -- just what the singer-songwriter wants for his video "Close Up the Honky Tonks," a country classic recorded by Buck Owens in 1964. It's the first single from "Dwight Sings Buck," his tribute to the late singer, songwriter and business mogul, due Oct. 23. The romantic lament is slower and more doleful than Owens' spunky version; the effect Yoakam and irector Fred Durst are after is what both call "minimalist loneliness."

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