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3 Pears

Dwight YoakamAudio CD
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (183 customer reviews)

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On March 25, 2006, when Dwight Yoakam got the awful news that his close friend Buck Owens had passed away, it was a shock. Only four days earlier, the honky-tonk compadres had spent four hours on the phone catching up while Yoakam was amid a 17-month world tour. “Buck was just full of life,” Yoakam remembers. “We’d known each other since 1987, and somebody had asked him ... Read more in Amazon's Dwight Yoakam Store

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Product Details

  • Audio CD (September 18, 2012)
  • Original Release Date: 2012
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Warner Bros.
  • ASIN: B008NEVPD6
  • Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Music
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (183 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #619 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

1. Take Hold Of My Hand
2. Waterfall
3. Dim Lights, Thick Smoke
4. Trying
5. Nothing But Love
6. It's Never Alright
7. A Heart Like Mine
8. Long Way To Go
9. Missing Heart
10. 3 Pears
11. Rock It All Away
12. Long Way To Go (Reprise)

Editorial Reviews

Grammy-Award winner Dwight Yoakam presents his first all new studio album in seven years, 3 Pears (Warner Bros. Records). The 12-track release, his 26th, is produced by Yoakam, along with two songs co-produced with Beck: "A Heart Like Mine" and "Missing Heart".

3 Pears exemplifies Yoakam s ability to incorporate multiple, competing influences into a piece of cohesive art. It balances his country core with a fiercely independent embrace of rock, Americana, pop and soul and builds on his trademark edginess with a notable, growing positivity. 3 Pears contains heartfelt love songs, which showcase Yoakam s authentic country vocals while maintaining his unmistakable classic sound.

Customer Reviews

This is one of the best albums Dwight Yoakam has produced. L. Bergantino  |  30 reviewers made a similar statement
Great lyrics great guitar licks just great music. B. Measles  |  17 reviewers made a similar statement
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
50 of 54 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Dwight takes the OMG Generation to school September 25, 2012
Format:Audio CD
With Dwight Yoakam, you sort of learn to (happily) drop your expectations in the face of some erratic career moves. But I never expected this: a full-on schooling of his (supposed) contemporaries, a sly, sarcastic take on his own older sound, like Dwight + 8" Lift Kit, crushing everything in its path, all the faux-hawked tweeting country-poser crowd running in horror. I'm loving the fact that his album will never even be on the cheese-country radar: good for them. They don't deserve this stuff.

Example: "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke" just refuses to let up, and extends itself past a few false-endings to a place we were always hoping he'd go: an atom-bomb bar-band smack upside the head. "A Heart Like Mine" is Bakersfield on Caffeine, a shut-up-and-hold-on anthem of modern confidence with a vocal performance that should silence all doubters as to whether or not he's "got it". Then there's "Rock It All Away", a collision of Son Volt's grain-elevator chordage and gorgeous melody from the deepest Dwight classic reverie. I'm also a fan of "Missing Heart", one of the very few songs in 3/4 time I can stand lately, placed squarely there by a silent, forlorn dual-slide-guitar attack that would make the perfect soundtrack music. The entire album is full of pet moments and gripping excitement.

Fans of Dwight will dig this a lot, and celebrate its swift kick in the pants. Fans of what country music has become in the post-Idol era will not even know it's out there. Tragic, perhaps, but we're fine to let it go. Dwight was never about the interstate, he's much happier taking us down the back roads. At top speed, of course.
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36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Last of the True Eclectics September 21, 2012
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If you think that his album "Gone" was one of his best (and most underrated) albums, then you will love this CD. Dwight long ago left the confines of limiting his songs to any "country" genre. His musical influences were shaped by AM radio where country songs bumped up against rock and roll, soul and smooth ballads. This album is a culmination of all those influences from the Burrito Brothers to the Byrds to Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, the Beatles and beyond. He continues his defiant musical stance of writing songs with meaning and creating music that echo all the sounds he loves to hear. His song "Waterfall" is deceptive here. It comes across as almost a nursery rhyme kind of song. But is so much more than that -- there is wit, humor and pathos working in the lyrics and melody. Another reason to own this CD is the last song -- just Dwight's sorrow-filled, soulful tenor and a solo piano reminding the listener that he or she still has "A long way to go". I defy anyone to listen to this song and not get a bit choked up. Its right up there with his most beautiful ballads such as "Dreams of Clay" and "Last Heart in Line".
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34 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Let me start by saying that I'm still in the honeymoon period for this album and I'm a huge dwight and pete anderson fan. My favorite dwight albums are the ones that Pete produced and his guitar licks were the first thing that drew me to dwight. I feel overall that blame the vain was a step down musically for dwight and he missed pete's playing and producing on that album (with the exception of blame the vain and last heart in the line, two of the finest songs hes ever written.) However this new album holds up exceptionally well and is a thousand times better then blame the vain. Overall this album has a strong 60s influence and IMO is not much like his early music at all. If you like his first three albums you may not like what you hear here. The only song reminiscent of that period is dim lights... However if you dig his later albums like Gone and A Long Way Home, I'm sure you will these tunes. Standout tracks for me include It's Never Alright, A Long Way To Go (reprise), and Missing Heart and 3 Pears. Please buy this album and support the artist so we don't have to wait seven hears for the next one!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars a must have
Dwight is and will always be true country. From his hat down to his Kentucky roots and boots. His new c.d. is one thats a must have. A new sound but yet one that is unmistakable! Read more
Published 1 day ago by lovin dwight
5.0 out of 5 stars 3 Pears is 3 times terrific!
Dwight does a great studio album! His voice sounds as amazing as ever!! It's Never Alright is haunting! Buy it!
Published 9 days ago by Tracy Ollgaard
5.0 out of 5 stars Long Awaited Return Of Dwight Yoakam
This album is exactly what I expected from Dwight Yoakam after his last original album Blame The Vain in 2005 and his great and wonderful tribute to his mentor the late great Buck... Read more
Published 12 days ago by Tony Mitchell
5.0 out of 5 stars Another happy purchase
Love this music and his voice. His lyrics are also really good and meaningful. Play it over and over. Great stuff
Published 21 days ago by Donamarie Groenhoff
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent record for anyone who loves guitar bands and great lyrics.
I saw a documentary about the making of this album on Palladia (sp?). Yoakam explained that the final test for each track was listening to it in his Corvette. Read more
Published 22 days ago by Donald R. Morin
5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the wait!
Dwight doesn't disappoint as usual, it was worth the 7 year wait. Great new tunes and if you get the chance to see him live on this tour, please do so! Read more
Published 1 month ago by Dusty
5.0 out of 5 stars 3 pears cd
As a big fan of Dwight Yoakam I am always glad when something new by him comes out. I was not disapointed
Published 1 month ago by brenda fox
2.0 out of 5 stars Would not have purchased if I had heard it B-4 purchase.
I found it was not on par with his other CD's. Usually I enjoyed his songs and I'm disappointed with these.
Published 1 month ago by William Gifford
5.0 out of 5 stars like the artist
I love the lyrics in "Waterfall". All the songs are great. Not the same overused lyrics.I find myself humming "Waterfall" almost every day. Read more
Published 1 month ago by molly
4.0 out of 5 stars He's ba...a....a....ck.......
Welcome back Dwight! Nice mix of ol' time honkey tonk and new world country without the Nashville Cookie-Cutter Hit sound.
Published 1 month ago by barbara breseman
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