Los Angeles, CA, June 10, 2003, Multiple Grammy Award-winning entertainer/actor Dwight Yoakam is currently in Hollywood Homicide with Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett, directed by Ron Shelton. The Revolution Studios film is scheduled for release by Columbia Pictures on June 13 and he will be attending the premiere today.

Dwight's new album, Population Me; on his own imprint label Electrodisc Records, with KOCH/Audium Records, is scheduled for a June 24 release. The first single, "The Back of Your Hand," was just released last week to radio and he will be on the road this summer on an extensive tour to promote the album. Dwight will be a guest on The Tonight Show With Jay Leno on June 18

Dwight has recently created his second signature model with Gibson Guitar, The Honky Tonk Deuce, which is currently available for order through Gibson dealer.

Dwight Yoakam was honored with the 2,227th Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Thursday June 5, 2003. Many friends including legendary banjo player/ innovator Earl Scruggs, country music legend Buck Owens, highly acclaimed actor Vince Vaughn, ZZ Top's own Billy Gibbons and Honorary Mayor of Hollywood Johnny Grant, joined him for the ceremony at the star which is located at 7021 Hollywood Blvd.

Always the rebel, the "James Dean of country music" began his career in Nashville, but soon immigrated to Los Angeles and blazed out of the LA club scene in 1986. Yoakam shared stages with LA roots-rock acts such as X, Lone Justice, the Blasters and Los Lobos. Beginning by revitalizing the Buck Owens/Bakersfield sound for a new generation, Yoakam would later push the envelope of the country music genre and transcend its parameters by experimenting with big band, and American and British pop elements. Yoakam fashioned memorable hits ranging from "Ain't That Lonely Yet," "Fast As You," "I Sang Dixie," "Thousand Miles From Nowhere," "Little Sister" and "Guitars, Cadillacs." With the success of his Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc. Etc, Hillbilly Deluxe and Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room albums, he was soon considered the hottest young country star in ages. In the '90s he reached a commercial apex with the multi-platinum-selling If There Was A Way and This Time. Reprise Please Baby: The Warner Bros. Years was released last year as a box set. To date Yoakam has 17 Top 10 country hits and has sold more than 22 million albums worldwide.

Since his 1993 film debut opposite Nicholas Cage in Red Rock West, he has worked steadily in movies and television with exceptional performance in Sling Blade, The Minus Man and Panic Room. He also directed, wrote and starred in a film of his own 2000's South of Heaven, West of Hell.

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