Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room

Not for me.

323. nice

Country

Yoakam has his own style and creative approach that separates him from other “new Trad” country artists of the late 80s and 90s. Likewise,I respect and enjoy the homage paid to country days of old. When all is said and done though I think this album is a bit jumbled and had the treble turned up a notch too high.

🥱

nice enough

26/10/2026 Another country album, another album I have 0 interest in. Spotify listeners: 2.6 million

the type of country I have less interest in. It is pleasant enough though but way too poppy for my liking. The title track is probably the standout track. 2.5 stars

American plastic cheese in music form would be bad enough if the lyrics about how your partner's infidelity justifies shooting her weren't also kind of rancid. I am fine with musicians playing the villain in a record, but it isn't clear that this is the case.

Not the worst country album I've ever heard, and sounds somewhat pleasant.

Clever storytelling backed by some of the best produced country music I've heard so far. Love the Buck Owens appearance. 4/5

music is love

***agood country album

Not a fan of this genre...generally. But this stuff didn't suck. Not that I am going to seek this out in my music library. Generally, not a fan. But Dwight did make it a bit more interesting. And sure this playing on a juke box in Wyoming is not gonna drive me away. 4 "appreciative for the tunes" stars.

I was worried I'd be hearing about beers, tractors, trucks, and trailers. This is very much country but it's blues/depression country, not square-dancing love-it-or-leave-it patriotism. Plus, he played the doctor in Crank. And he was the asshole boyfriend in Sling Blade. I had no idea until I started digging into him while listening to this, and his role in both those movies is worth adding half a star to an album that is most definitely NOT in my lane. The twanging, the slidin', the wailing... Not my thing. But this could have been much worse. It's lyrically solid, isn't modern jongoistic garbage... I definitely don't hate it. And I want a doctor like Doc Miles so 3 stars.

Old but gold. Comforting album.

5/10

Country is one of the genres I have a very hard time tolerating at all. I can sometimes deal with so-called alt-country and MAYBE some proper outlaw stuff, but this album is basically the worst kind for me. Maybe I'll "get" it one day, but that day, sadly, isn't today.

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I'm amused by all the reviewers that say they hate country. It's like saying you hate rock. There's so many different types of country, going back to Patsy Cline and Merle Haggard. Yes, this album is boring and unimaginative. but hardly representative of all the great country music out there.

The perfect amount of twang for me to dislike it. Favourite Track(s): Hold on to God, One More Name Least Favourite Track(s): Send Me the Pillow

Country can be hit and miss, especially when it's cliche lyrics of women, my love, whiskey and travelling etc. This wasn't so bad. A couple of songs were quite alright 'What I don't Know' and 'Home of the Blues'. The fiddle or violin was a bit much, and the lame song about God cemented the ceiling of this album at a three for me.

Twangy.

Short and sweet! Enjoyed this quite a bit. I went into it thinking I wasn’t going to enjoy it, but it was a welcome surprise! 4/5 ⭐️ 291/1081

I don't listen to much country to be honest, this is OK, but it seems very much like country by numbers.

I do not like the twangy style of country singing and reviews suggest more than a whiff of misogyny.

Country music doesn't usually do it for me, but this was ok.

I can mostly take or leave country music. Sonically this wasn't bad, gave me a beers-and-honky-tonks feeling, but the lyrics are a bit... murdery. She's just not that in to you, Dwight. No need to shoot her over it.

Звук точно классный. И бодренький альбом. Не так. Суперзвук

Normally I'd try to appreciate this on its own merits and file it under "just not my thing" but the lyrics for songs like "What I Don't Know" and "I Sang Dixie" kind of bring it down. Also the super-clean 80s production doesn't work for this kind of music imo.

I have come to the conclusion that I don't dislike country, I just dislike modern pop country.

Did not enjoy this. Was country

I liked the instruments here, the guitar, the banjo, everything. Gets a little bit repetitive after a while, but I do like the sound itself.

I didn't realize I liked Dwight Yoakum, but I love this kind of old-school country.

Some good songs, some not so good songs. Some dodgy songs. Maybe it's unfair that Nick Cave can get away with an album of murder ballads but Dwight can't, but here we are.

I actually don't really mind this kind of thing as long as I just don't pay too much attention to the lyrics on the ones about femicide but I'll admit I'm pretty confused as to what it's doing on the list

A bit too country for me, small doses required.

Decent country, but nothing to write home about. 3.5 bumped down to 3.

I’m at a 2.5 that I’d prefer to keep there. I think I have to go down to a 2. Just a frustrating one, really. Dwight Yoakam is not a bad storyteller; his writing makes sense, it’s decently fluid, and his original tracks here aren’t really all that bad. He just tells bad stories. This album alienates early on with how clingy he is to his woman as the only anchor keeping his already broken world from totally crumbling on the opening track. It continues to alienate with him being extremely paranoid about being cheated on during “One More Name”. It escalates with “What I Don’t Know” where he’s practically threatening to shoot a woman if she cheats on him, and culminates with the actual fantasy of shooting a cheating woman straight in the head on the album’s title track. These are all decently told stories. They’re just bad stories. I don’t know what the fuck happened to Dwight to write those out, but they feel wholly inappropriate for 2026. This album is at its best when Dwight is not trying to fantasize the worst case scenarios about his partners, most of which are in the form of covers. “Home of the Blues” is a good Johnny Cash cover. “I Sang Dixie” is fine, though I wholly disagree with the romanticization of the Confederate south. “Streets of Bakersfield” is good, especially with Buck Owens’ twangy voice in the mix. “Floyd County” is probably Dwight’s best original track here. “Send Me the Pillow” is just kinda sweet (if a little clingy), and “Hold On to God” is a fine enough religious closer (though incredibly ironic given the sin of Murder earlier in the album). The vast majority of this album is really not THAT bad. I just wasn’t really pulled in for most of it, though. Out of 11 tracks, I only truly enjoyed 4 of them, and with 5 of the first 6 tracks being about him dealing with cheaters in various threatening ways, along with a trio of totally mediocre ones, I just don’t think it’s a great album experience. It’s not a bad listen at all, and I’d say you could probably throw it on if you pay no attention to the lyrics. There’s a good updated honky-tonk sound to the whole album that feels nice to the ears, and doesn’t overdo anything for 1988. If it were just a little better, or had a few more lifelines along the way that don’t make me think Dwight Yoakam kinda hates women (or at least, wouldn’t seriously overreact if one did him dirty), I’d probably be willing to bump it up to a 3. They’re just not there. As it stands, I just think there’s an air around the album that doesn’t reconcile the tracks I enjoyed or found passably OK with the ones I found rather misogynistic. I suspect there’s probably a Dwight Yoakam album out there that doesn’t feel quite as mean, but I also suspect that if you wanted more 1980s male country on the list, you could’ve just gone with a Randy Travis or a George Strait or something, you know? Hence, a 2.5 bumped down to a 2, no matter how much I’d prefer to keep it at a 2.5.

Now, I haven't heard very many country albums. Before this, I've only done By The Time I Get To Phoenix by Glen Campbell, and 12 Golden Country Greats by Ween. This will only be my THIRD country album, so I hope I like it. 01. I Got You Even though I said I've only heard two country ALBUMS, I've always had a soft spot for country like this. I've grown up in hillbilly Appalachia my whole life, and so I heard stuff like this all the time. This rocks. 02. One More Name Very stereotypical "my girl cheats on me" country song. Listen I may not know a lot of country, but I know that's a stereotype of the genre. 03. What I Don't Know This song is gross. I don't know what else to put here. 04. Home Of The Blues Pretty basic. Cool concept. 05. Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) Really appreciate the Latin vibes on the break. But besides that is pretty boring. What's his fascination with killing women? 06. I Hear You Knockin' Pretty whatever. Didn't love it, didn't hate it. 07. I Sang Dixie It took until 6 more songs to get a song not about a bad relationship! Not a coincidence that the only two so far not about your terrible relationship are the best ones? Pretty basic instrumentation, but the lyrics are actually good for once! 08. Streets Of Bakersfield (feat. Buck Owens) Whatever. Once again, appreciate the Latin influence. 09. Floyd County One of the most basic country songs I've ever heard. 10. Send Me The Pillow Honestly pretty cute, I won't lie. I really like it lol. 11. Hold On To God Yep. That's a Christian song all right. Didn't blow me away. Pretty weak closer. Overall... eh? There are some real good ones, but I probably wouldn't recommend this to anyone any time soon.

Typical for a country album. Songs of lost love and longing. Nothing special here. I've heard way too much of this, and Dwight brings nothing special to the table. Sorry man, so bored. My Rating: 2/5

A solid, well performed, well written, pre-bro country thank god almighty country album. The gentler cousin of Guitar Town.

Get your cowboy pants on!

Enjoyed the country instrumentals but Dwight himself is a piece of shit as per his lyrics throughout the album. Had to bring it down a star cause of that.

Friendly and safe country music here. No risks taken. No throw in songs. By far not the best country album one will even hear. I mean, he doesn’t even sing about mama Or trains, or trucks, or prison, or getting drunk. Valiant effort though. Choice cut: I Sang Dixie

Incredible voice from Dwight and guitar work from Pete but this just leaves me so bored. I know this is supposed to be maybe the clearest example of a throwback country sound that everyone who hates pop and contemporary country says they like when they say they like country music but ugh, just does not do much for me right now. Maybe one day.

A weird one. A bit too clean and polished- lacks the grit that makes the oyster. I'd rather listen to the old stuff this is aping.

This is not an era of country I am particularly fond of apparently. Too polished and too far from outlaw country, but not exploring interesting territory either. I didn't hate it, so a 1 feels too harsh, but I also didn't really have any standouts here.

I see how country fans would consider him legendary. I almost liked a few, some are definitely story good

Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room 699/1089 ⭐️ Not for me in any way shape or form. I’m not a fan of the genre, with some exceptions, and this is as stereotypically country as you can get.

Can't stand Country music. DNF.

enjoyable country

ok

Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room Dwight Yoakam 1988 Genres: Country Styles: Bakersfield Sound 1. I Got You (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Escrita por Yoakam. Un narrador con problemas de plata (le llega un aviso de la compañía telefónica) que se consuela porque tiene a su pareja. Es casi la única canción con humor irónico del disco. Tono liviano, el "optimismo" previo al derrumbe. Single, #5 en 1989. 2. One More Name (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Vals suave. El narrador escucha a su pareja pronunciar nombres mientras duerme, presuntamente de amantes. Acá empieza la paranoia del relato. 3. What I Don't Know (★★★⯨☆) -Contexto: Paranoia con batería marcada. Contiene una advertencia casi psicótica: lo que él ignora quizás no lo dañe, pero podría costarle la vida a ella. 4. Home of the Blues (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Versión de una canción de Johnny Cash (Cash, Douglas, McAlpine). El narrador está solo en una casa llena de recuerdos tan dulces que lo hacen llorar. 5. Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Balada de asesinato. El narrador, enloquecido, reza por venganza, busca a la mujer y a su amante y dispara. Una reseña habla de doble homicidio. Cierra la historia de celos de la cara A. Single, llegó solo al #46. 6. I Hear You Knockin' (★★★★☆) -Contexto: Versión de Lazy Lester (J. D. Miller). Suena más alegre, pero según la lectura crítica su letra refuerza la tristeza del disco. No encontré dichos del artista sobre esta canción. 7. I Sang Dixie (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Un narrador encuentra a un hombre del Sur muriéndose en una calle de Los Ángeles y le canta "Dixie" llorando para consolarlo, mientras los demás pasan de largo. El moribundo le dice que vuelva a su tierra y escape de lo que la ciudad le hizo. Yoakam la demoeó en 1981. Rolling Stone la puso #26 entre las canciones country más tristes. Single #1. 8. Streets of Bakersfield (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Escrita por Homer Joy en 1972, tras una espera humillante en un estudio de Bakersfield y con los pies ampollados por botas nuevas. El estribillo apunta a quienes juzgan sin conocer. Buck Owens la grabó en 1973 sin gran suceso, y Yoakam lo convenció de hacerla a dúo en 1988. Single #1. Encaja con la independencia artística de Yoakam. 9. Floyd County (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Relata la muerte de un hombre que era pilar de su comunidad. También viene de las sesiones de demo de 1981. Poco más pude verificar. 10. Send Me the Pillow (★★⯨☆☆) -Contexto: Clásico de Hank Locklin. Tono de anhelo y desamor. Maria McKee hace coros. 11. Hold On to God (★★★☆☆) -Contexto: Gospel escrito para su madre, Ruth Ann. Suena más a resistencia que a celebración de la fe. Yoakam bromeó sobre el disco diciendo que se pone melancólico, mata a alguien y al final se hace religioso. -TOTAL = ★★⯨☆☆ (2,91) -No me gusta el country, pero creo que a este álbum podría ponerle un 3, más allá de que no lo volvería a escuchar...

# Album Name: Buenas Noches From A Lonely Room # Artist: Dwight Yoakam # Rating: 2/5 # Comments: Too country for me. Couple of good tracks but not my vibe. # Top Tunes: Bakersfield # Would I listen to it again? No

I hated this. I hate country music and this was pure country music. Yuck!

Just good, solid country

Musically perfectly ok. LOVE Maria McKee so that's a highpoint. Would give a 3-star but.... mysogyny.

Dwight Yoakam’s lyrics here are the reason he got cast to be that dick in Slingblade. Good album though. More norteno country in this world!

even though it was brief, it was still very painful to listen to

Pleasant background music for a bar, doesn't really rise above background music when listening at home though.

Track By Track I Got You - Sounding country but rock country! Very American lyrics. Classic U.S. tropes. Fairly standard structure to the song as well. Quite decent melody. Nice solo. Twangy for sure! One More Name - I do like the occasional smattering of a pedal steel guitar in my life. Not perhaps for a whole album, but I do quite like it. Quite sweet to the ears. What I Don’t Know - Different vibe. Again very American. The lyrics are questionable. ‘…might get you killed?’ Bit over the top perhaps. Quite dark actually. Music was alright. Didn’t love but didn’t hate. Middling. Home of the Blues - It’s again quite pleasant to the ears but generally this kind of music doesn’t particularly move me very much. Good playing here though, very solid. Buenos Noches From A Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) - Decent playing again, particularly the fiddle. It is a little slow and mopey though. I Hear You Knockin’ - Quite nice bluesy stomp and romp. Evokes kind of early ‘50s rock for me (seeing how everything sort of links up in a complex map of music!). I Sang Dixie - Nice fiddle here. Nice sort of walking chords here. Again, it’s cliche but it’s making me think of ‘O Brother’. I wonder if that soundtrack’s on here? Probably not, as it’s a compilation soundtrack. Maybe 🤷🤷‍♂️ Streets of Bakersfield - Oo this was a bit more upbeat than I was expecting tempo-wise. Didn’t actually do much for me this one. Pleasant enough. Floyd County - Quite sweet one & again good fiddle. Read from another review that it’s lamenting a miner. It’s both upbeat and a little elegiac. Send Me the Pillow - Another slow burnin’ one. Slightly prefer this to the other slower one on the record. Hold On To God - A fairly sweet religious number to end on. Nice harmonies on this one. Again, reminding me of ‘O Brother!’. Will likely listen to some of that after this. Tight playing and one of the more jovial songs on the tracklist. Overall Review: It’s a funny thing, this music was not unpleasant to listen to. It just doesn’t do very much for me. Generally doesn’t stick. I struggle to access the emotional core of it. Also some weird and dodgy lyrics. Some of the tunes were fun and pleasant enough though. Not brilliant but not terrible. High 2. Nearly a 3 but maybe not quite. 2.5/5 Favourite Songs: I Got You, Floyd County

2.5/5 https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dwight-yoakam/buenas-noches-from-a-lonely-room/ This can be filed under 'not my thing'. The slower songs are nice-ish, but the more upbeat stuff with the fiddle, nahh man.

Not my style of country

Quite a nice, mellow country album. 3/5

Enjoyed it

Muy buen country! Buen ritmo, country moderno! Recomendado!

Dwight's third album and a slickly produced effort with some significant US country hot 100 country hit singles in its midst. It all sounds quite nice melodically with some expectedly impressive instrumental playing around the decent vocals, but I didn't hear much in the way of material that would put it in the realms of essential country albums. A decent if unremarkable album to my ears.

Yikes. It would be good if it was instrumental and without misogynistic lyrics.

Album #161: Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room - Dwight Yoakam Genre (W): Country Singles: Streets of Bakersfield, I Sang Dixie, I Got You, Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses) I have not listened to this album before. Thoughts?: I found this album pretty unremarkable aside from She Wore Red Dresses. I loved the music but it sounds basic to me. What’s must-hear about this? I’m intrigued! Favorite tracks: Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room (She Wore Red Dresses)

2 - not for me

Qué pereza

So I hate his voice but I think I mostly liked the album? Considering my anti country bias. Reminded me a lot of the Springsteen country album that came out the year before production wise. Also love the line about having your phone service cut so next time you make a call you have to go out and yell. Makes me sad how much he hides his face on album covers and Spotify. I love his weird face from films such as Panic Room.

here we go

I like a lot of country, and was thinking I'd be more into this. Dwight is from my hometown of Columbus, Ohio and rather than go to Nashville he cut his teeth in punk-era Los Angeles which is very cool. I did like Streets of Bakerfield which got a lot of attention on Ken Burns Country Music miniseries. I appreciate his "new traditional" approach" but I think I'm just not that much of a traditional country music guy, new or not. Great voice though and all respect but doesn't go beyond a 3.4 stars for me.

Unfortunately, I can't really get past the part where this very much just makes me think of asshole jocks from high school. If I try really hard, I can recognize the artistic merit just long enough to give this 2.49 stars, even though the drums sound like Fruity Loops tracks. That's the best I can do.

I had higher hopes for Buenas Noches, because Dwight Yoakam is well-regarded, the 1,001 book is especially effusive in its praise for this album, and, I don't know, maybe I'd get into Dwight Yoakam in middle age? But nope, this didn't do much for me. No disrespect to Yoakam—he's good at what he does, and these songs are solid, but they aren't calling me back.

This album felt like all the worst tropes of a stereotypical country album. I really battled to get through this.

Another not super needed country joint I guess. Wait, it’s Neo-traditionalist. I guess that deserves its place. Ween’s country album is way better, especially because that’s PURPOSEFULLY funny, whereas this is funny on complete accident (“One More Name” is one of the best comedy songs of all time, but sadly I doubt that it is meant to be as funny as it is). Also, this isn’t anywhere NEAR Yoakam’s most significant album! Put Guitars or This Time on here, not this! Y’all set him up for failure. There are some upsides though; it’s pleasant pastiche for the most part, and Yoakam is a memorable presence on the microphone. It’s also not too long, so it wasn’t really a chore to listen to (though frankly it still could’ve been a bit shorter). The title track is a genuinely nice and emotional little ballad, though the ending is NOT needed and makes the song really funny. All of these songs are actually really really funny, but a lot of them aren’t really all that good, sadly. Recommend it if you want to listen to a really funny album but if you want a good album steer clear. 4.1/10 DOES IT BELONG ON THE LIST: NO REASON: BAD AND KINDA BORING WHAT WOULD I REPLACE IT WITH: This Time by Dwight Yoakim

Not being a country guy makes this one hard to judge. However, having a wife who is Big in the 90s country scene and through the 1001 experience so far, I think I could take a pretty good guess on the quality of this album. What I appreciated about this album is it has a classic country & western feel, but it also feels like it was relevant toward the “modern” 80s. It wasn’t yodel or overly twangy. The guitar work and the vocals were solid. I Heard You Knocking was actually a pretty good song and I liked the Mexican feel of Streets of Bakersfield. Matter of fact so many of these songs have a Mexican influence Trump was going to send ICE to send it back to Mexico. Overall, I can say I actually enjoyed this album.

Random thoughts: * Dwight Yoakam is one of those artists I know the name but have never listened to his music. Probably because it wasn't on the country radio or charts which my parents listened to and because I generally don't listen to country music. * This does have a throw back feel and doesn't sound like it comes from the 80s. I guess that was the idea and I learned about the Bakersfield sound. * There was a hispanic flair or touch in the recording that I picked up on. Not sure what gave me that vibe. Maybe the accordian. * I liked the first track quite a bit: "I Got You". I also enjoyed "Send Me The Pillow". * I listened to this through twice back to back. Good listening and glad to be a little more musically exposed.

boring. i like country but this just doesn't do anything for me, maybe it's his voice?

Based on the reviews I thought that I was goint to hate this album. If you like rock music you are going to listen to some country singers, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson most of the times but the most popular songs dont sound as country as this one, the thing that I saw more complains about were the lyrics, yes, it has a lot of country cliches just like a slayer album has metal cliches, a Motly Crue has glam rock cliches, a Cypress Hill has rap cliches. It's not self councious about being what it is, it doesn't try to change to appeal to other audiences, it wants to be a country album and at that it does a good job, at the same time I wonder if this is as good as the genre can be if its part of the 1001 albums. Anyway, I liked the simple songs, the instrumentation, even on the song that sounds like mexican norteño.

Mid

This starts off pretty strong, and I liked some of the instrumentals. But the production is a bit too bright for my liking, and everything soaked in reverb - interesting to see that sound start to come into country though. I'm generally willing to give artists the benefit of the doubt (to a degree) when it comes to murder ballads and the like - playing characters, telling stories, etc. But that title track is a bit too jaunty for a firsthand account of murdering one's spouse. I disliked the one about Smith and Weston acting as judge jury and executioner too. Interesting once again to see the similarities between country music and gangsta rap.

Had a darn tooting good time

Perhaps the most cliche country music album I've heard so far, with tons of slide guitar and violin. His voice was a little grating to me and the songs were a bit simple.

When they say they don't make real country music, they're missing Dwight.

★★★½

This album has a bit of a polarizing view on it from music fans all around. From what I gathered, this would lean more into album I wouldn't care for or relisten to. And to be honest? They were right. Good call haters. But I will say, a lot of what turns people off about this album is subject matter and lyrics, and I don't necessarily use that as a main dismissal for an album being good or not. Is this a batshit, crazed and weird take on heartbreak, jealously and grief? Yep, certainly. However, Bad is often just the absence of good. And that is probably the best way to describe my listening experience for this album, however it doesnt really go out of its way to be bad like other albums that deserve a 1/5 moniker. I do want to save the 1s for the absolutely deplorable albums that gave me nothing but wasted time. 2/5 as sort of a mercy killing..... unlike Dwight's murder fantasies.

Really trying to get me into country music... still not my type of it.

gutes album schön als abwechslung

I have historically not liked country, but I’m surprised how endearing this was for me. It’s not something I’d reach for, but it was kind of….soothing. And had enough of a blues/rock vibe to keep me interested.

Not really a fan of country music, but I enjoyed listening to this.

Intrumental side is eh to me. The lyrics aren't any better. Not my kind of country. Not that I'm super into country either

Man, fuck this album. Dwight Yoakam is a honkin tonkin red flag here and I hope every woman around ran for the hills whrn this MF came around. Can't have her? Beeeeeeetter kill her. Life didn't go my way? Should I move on like a normal human being? Nah, prison sounds alright to me. There are a couple of good guitar licks on this album, but otherwise this one goes in the trash where it belongs.

Killing women for cheating is one thing, and minimizing slavery is another 😖

Not his best, but a damn fine album regardless.

Inoffensive but totally bland C&W that made me chuckle rather than scowl at it. Amazed that this kind of stuff is still being churned out.

Men would literally rather write a revenge-fantasy album about killing their unfaithful lover than go to therapy.