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21st Century Hits: Best of 2000-2012
21st Century Hits: Best of 2000-2012

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The title
21st Century Hits: Best of 2000-2012
is likely meant with a wink, as
Dwight Yoakam
hasn't exactly burned up the charts in the new millennium. He left
Reprise
after 2000's
Tomorrow's Sounds Today
(the soundtrack to
South of Heaven, West of Hell
appeared the next year but it's hard to count that as an official release), then released
Population Me
on
Audium Records
in 2003 before moving to
New West
in 2005, releasing
Blame the Vain
that year and the tribute album
Dwight Sings Buck
two years later. That's a total of three albums in a decade --
Dwight
returned to the label in 2012 for
3 Pears
-- and there were just four charting singles among them: "The Late Great Golden State," "The Back of Your Hand," "Intentional Heartache," and "Blame the Vain," not one of them placing higher than 52 on the country charts. That's pretty thin gruel for a compilation, so
21st Century Hits
bends the rules a little bit, adding his rockabilly cover of
Queen
's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" -- his last genuine hit single, but it peaked at 12 in 1999, so it merits inclusion here by appearing on the soundtrack to the 2006
Jennifer Aniston
/
Vince Vaughn
film
The Break-Up
-- a cut from
("The Sad Side of Town"), a cut from
(the terrific "A Heart Like Mine"), and "Long Goodbye," a previously unreleased duet with
Michelle Branch
that aims for a crossover and may have gotten there if it had a discernable melody. Its inclusion is nice for the sake of completeness and it also underscores how
Yoakam
wasn't especially focused during the first decade of the 21st century. He certainly made good music, much of it included here -- this samples nicely from
and
but
deserves to be heard in its entirety -- and one of the nice things about the collection is how it never suggests how it took
a little while to find his footing after he parted ways with longtime collaborator producer
Pete Anderson
after
. By squeezing a decade or so to 14 songs,
condenses
's transitional years into a solid little record; anybody who came back aboard through
will find it useful. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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