One of the coolest cats in country music is heading back to Louisiana as Dwight Yoakam will be in concert at Paragon Casino Resort in Marksville on Saturday, November 13, 2021.
In 1963, Buck Owens topped the country charts with "Act Naturally," which opened with the prophetic line "They're gonna put me in the movies." But decades before that tune was a hit, country stars were already trading the concert stage for the sound stage.
The '80s were a transitional decade for country music: a time when artists could try out different styles and approaches -- and, by extension, adopt new traditions that would come to reverberate in the '90s and beyond.