Under the Covers

Studio album by

Released

July 15, 1997

Genre

Country

Length

36:48

Label

Reprise

Producer

Pete Anderson

Dwight Yoakam chronology

Gone
(1995)

Under the Covers
(1997)

Come on Christmas
(1997)

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Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]

Under the Covers is the seventh studio album, and the first covers album recorded by Dwight Yoakam. It peaked at No. 8 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart, and No. 92 on the Billboard 200.

Background[edit]

As he had on the commercially disappointing Gone two years before, Yoakam continued to challenge expectations with a mixed bag of covers, including songs by The Clash, The Kinks, The Beatles, and the Rolling Stones that betrayed the singer’s affection for British rock. Two songs, 'Here Comes the Night' and 'Things We Said Today', were previously recorded for the 1992 compilation album La Croix d'Amour.^[2] Various cuts, such as Roy Orbison’s 'Claudette' and the Motown hit 'Playboy,' fit him like a glove, with producer/guitarist Pete Anderson supplying arrangements that work to Yoakam’s strengths, but the Vegas lounge take of The Kinks' 'Tired of Waiting for You' likely baffled listeners, with Yoakam biographer Don McCleese deeming it 'a Rat Pack/Vegas miscalculation.^[3] According to Anderson, Yoakam was inspired by Louis Prima on the number.^[3] Yoakam also cut Sonny & Cher’s 'Baby Don’t Go' as a duet with Sheryl Crow. AllMusic’s Thom Jurek contends that track 'doesn’t really work either, because Crow is not a country singer and there's enough countrypolitan in Yoakam's read that the two singers seem cold and at odds with each other.'^[1] Amazingly, considering how hot the radio-friendly Crow was in the Nineties, the single did not chart, although Yoakam’s reportedly sour relationship with his label Reprise may have been a factor in it not getting pushed.^[4] ('Claudette,' the LP’s first single, only made it to #47.) Far more successful was the radically reworked 'Train in Vain,' originally recorded by The Clash but given full-on bluegrass treatment here with Ralph Stanley singing background vocals.

Reception[edit]

Writer Don McCleese deems the recording 'strange, even by the standards set by Gone.'^[5] AllMusic: 'While this set is not perfect, it's still damn fine and warrants repeated listens to come to grips with Yoakam's visionary ambition.'^[1]

Track listing[edit]

'Claudette' (Roy Orbison) - 2:59
'Train in Vain' (Mick Jones, Joe Strummer) - 3:23
'Tired of Waiting for You' (Ray Davies) - 2:59
'Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues' (Danny O'Keefe) - 3:17
'Baby Don't Go' (Duet with Sheryl Crow) (Sonny Bono) - 4:01
'Playboy' (Robert Bateman, Brian Holland, Gladys Horton, William 'Mickey' Stevenson) - 2:23
'Wichita Lineman' (Jimmy Webb) - 2:54
'Here Comes the Night' (Bert Berns) - 3:20
'The Last Time' (Mick Jagger, Keith Richards) - 3:58
'Things We Said Today' (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) - 3:51
'North to Alaska' (Mike Phillips) - 9:13
- 'T For Texas' (Jimmie Rodgers) (Hidden Track)

Personnel[edit]

Dwight Yoakam – lead vocals, guitar, percussion
Alex Acuña – percussion
Beth Andersen – background vocals
Pete Anderson – guitar, 6-string bass, mandolin, background vocals
Tom Brumley – pedal steel guitar, lap steel guitar
Jim Christie – drums
Anthony Crawford – background vocals
Sheryl Crow – duet, background vocals on 'Baby Don't Go'
Chuck Domanico – upright bass
Skip Edwards – piano, organ, accordion, keyboards
Ralph Forbes – drum programming
Tommy Funderburk – background vocals
Eric Jorgensen – trombone
Scott Joss – fiddle, mandolin
Nick Lane – trombone
Lonesome Strangers – background vocals
Dean Parks – guitar
Lon Price – saxophone
Taras Prodaniuk – bass, upright bass
Jeff Rymes – background vocals
Greg Smith – saxophone
Ralph Stanley – banjo, vocals
Chris Tedesco – trumpet
Lee Thornburg – trumpet
Randy Weeks – background vocals

Chart performance[edit]

Album[edit]

Chart (1997)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	8
U.S. Billboard 200	92
Australia (ARIA Charts)^[6]	74
Canadian RPM Country Albums	8
Canadian Albums Chart	84

Singles[edit]

Year	Single	Chart positions
Year	Single	US Country	CAN Country
1997	'Claudette'	47	44
1997	'Baby Don't Go' (with Sheryl Crow)	—	—
'—' denotes releases that did not chart

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References[edit]

^ ^a^b^cUnder the Covers at AllMusic
^'Dwight Yoakam - La Croix d'Amour'. Allmusic. Retrieved January 9, 2019.
^ ^a^bMcLeese 2012, p. 160.
^McLeese 2012, p. 140.
^McLeese 2012, p. 159.
^Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (pdf ed.). Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.

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Bibliography

McLeese, Don (2012). Dwight Yoakam: A Thousand Miles from Nowhere. University of Texas Press. ISBN978-0292723818

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