Dwight Yoakam at the Beacon Theatre

Dwight Yoakam, Steve Earle & Lucinda Williams

Dwight Yoakam was born in Pikeville, Kentucky, and was raised in Columbus, Ohio, where he starred in his high school's music and drama programs and sang and played guitar with local garage bands. In 1977, intent on becoming a recording artist, he moved to Los Angeles, California, where he played his honky tonk revival music in punk rock clubs. Since then, he has recorded more than 20 albums and compilations, charted more than 30 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records. He has also acted in numerous television series and feature films and curates his own satellite radio station. His most recent album is 2016's Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars..., a bluegrass album.

This LSD tour, named after the first initials of the three co-headliners, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle & the Dukes and Dwight Yoakam, came to the Beacon Theatre tonight, presenting three different takes on country roots revival. Yoakam closed the show with a tight, no-space-to-breathe hour-long set that did not afford him the time to include his usual acoustic bluegrass mini-set. The denim cowboy's set marched to a rocking rhythm from start to end, such that a cover of Chuck Berry's "Little Queenie" did not seem out of character. Unmistakably, Yoakam's rich baritone etched a country stamp on all the songs, several of which were covers of old-time classics, but they were thoroughly powered by rock energy and volume. The evening ended with Yoakam singing a charging cover of Flatt & Scruggs' 1952 bluegrass classic  "Dim Lights, Thick Smoke (And Loud, Loud Music)," with Williams and Earle singing backup; the only thing better would have been to have given each of the artists their own verse to sing.

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