Name: Dwight Yoakam with The Mavericks
Start: 2025-03-28T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Alliant Energy PowerHouse

Dwight Yoakam with The Mavericks and 49 Winchester
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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.