Tickets On Sale Friday, November 22
Oklahoma City, OK – Country music legend, Dwight Yoakam, has announced his Cosmic Roundup & Rodeo Tour 2025, including a stop at Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center on Friday, February 21. Tickets will go on sale Friday, November 22 at 10 am through AXS.com.
The singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker first achieved mainstream success in 1986 with the release of his debut album, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. and has continued his career for decades, with his latest release, Brighter Days, being released just this year.
“As a songwriter, I try to articulate that Brighter Days are up ahead,” says Dwight Yoakam, whose 21st studio album joyfully reflects where he’s been since the 2015 release of Second Hand Heart, his last album of originals. The aptly titled Brighter Days brims with songs of hope and possibility, written during a time of major change in his personal life: As he puts it, “’Life happens when you’re busy making other plans,’ to quote John Lennon. My world changed so dramatically during the pandemic. I had hope and the future delivered to me in the midst of one of the darker moments in our country’s history”: marriage to his partner Emily Joyce and the birth of their son, Dalton, in 2020.
Recorded with his longtime band in six studios between 2021 and 2024, the exhilarating Brighter Days shows that Yoakam’s distinctive, supple vocals are just as powerful today as on his 1986 debut LP. Brighter Days’ diverse tracks span the spectrum of California country that have influenced him over the decades. As Yoakam says, “That California sound from the Dust Bowl to the Hollywood Bowl. I moved here at 20. I was born in Kentucky, raised in Ohio, and grew up in California, where I had to plant the flag and hold the hill.” Indeed: After more than 26 million albums sold worldwide and 21 Grammy noms (with several wins), Yoakam’s potent mix of what he describes as “country, rock, hillbilly, and bluegrass” sound more vital than ever. And as Brighter Days’ mixing engineer, the award-winning Chris Lord-Alge, has said of him: “Nobody really sings like this guy, and no one sings as in tune as he sings.”