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Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
Dwight Yoakam
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Dwight Yoakam
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: October 23
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[My grandfather] was very, very fortunate that he was never trapped in a mining cave-in. But he lost his brother in a mining disaster on a shift that he wasn't working. And he was in a collapse where his brother-in-law was killed very near him in the same section.
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But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.
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Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.
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Another lesson about a naive fool who came to Babylon, and found out that the pie don't taste so sweet.
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In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.
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