"This album is unique unto itself, but in no way does it diminish anything I did with Pete." Pete Anderson walked in the door and we really hit it off. Pete Anderson. "After working with and producing Dwight, other people began to ask me to produce records. I studied at GIT (now MIT) in ’79. By clicking 'X' or continuing to use the site, you agree to allow cookies to be placed. About Us, Support the independent voice of Houston and help keep the future of Houston Press free. Last August, Anderson sued Yoakam and his company Dwight Yoakam Tours, alleging that Yoakam breached an oral contract by failing to perform some 2002 tour dates. Producing stories on everything from political scandals to the hottest new bands, with gutsy reporting, stylish writing, and staffers who've won everything from the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi feature-writing award to the Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism. “He said it’d be his farewell production job before retirement and was talking about how great it was going to be. whose records he produced/arranged/and played on from 1986-2003 resulting in sales of 25 Million+ recordings. Dwight Yoakam was born on October 23, 1956, in Pikeville, Kentucky, U.S. He has signed and produced other artists, in addition to focusing on his own material. “I was writing a lot and there were countless times I pleaded to do my new songs — I felt like I was constipated,” Thompson said. If anyone has the full story id love to hear. Dwight Yoakam's longtime guitarist and producer has filed suit against the singer for financial losses stemming from a series of concerts he expected to … For years he played Fender Teles and Tom Anderson Tele-style models. In the suit, Anderson … Dwight's song writting has gotting songer over the years but without Pete's guitar and solo's it's just not the same magic as it once was !!! Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our terms of use, our cookies policy, and our privacy policy. An only child, Anderson's earliest musical memories… Read Full Biography. “There’s no lease, I never signed anything. Pete Anderson: Dwight Yoakam chronology; This Time (1993) Dwight Live (1995) Gone (1995) Professional ratings; Review scores; Source Rating; Allmusic: Dwight Live is the first live album by country music artist Dwight Yoakam. Careers, In Dwight Yoakam, Pete Anderson heard the direction Nashville needed to take, and insisted that the singer immediately commit a handful of his originals to tape. He did manage to meet a guy named Pete Anderson, a guitar player, and the two of them did the smart thing: They moved to L.A. But it had rock bonafides, too, especially producer/guitarist Pete Anderson’s stinging six-string leads and Yoakam’s way with a put-down. Yoakam went on the LSD Tour with Lucinda Williams and Steve Earle in 2018. Anderson, who declined to be interviewed for this story, offered to record, produce and release a six-song EP for the singer, unprompted, 22 months ago. Article content. https://gazettereview.com/2016/10/happened-dwight-yoakam-news-updates In 2017, country music fans were thrilled when singer-songwriter Tracy Dawn Thompson announced a collaboration with Grammy-winning producer and former Dwight Yoakam guitarist Pete Anderson… “He stopped letting me come to the studio and then told me I’d have to record the vocals somewhere else. In this nearly 4 1/2 hour video, you will learn 6 of Dwight's best songs. ©2021 Houston Press, LP. But in my mind, I'm still just a guitar player who happens to produce records. "We were so happy Bob at Dan Electro's jumped on our show on Monday night because I felt like a blues town like Houston is a place we need to play with this record.". Although the Meat Puppets' previous album, 1991's Forbidden Places, was one of the Arizona trio's finest, the band wasn't completely happy with the album's sound, courtesy of longtime Dwight Yoakam producer Pete Anderson.So on their second album for London Records, 1994's Too High to Die, the trio hooked up with Butthole Surfer Paul Leary to put them back on track. “We had an oral contract that I could live here until I had a steady income and that he’d relocate me,” Thompson said. It was released in 1995 on Reprise Records. Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube. This song works as a country or pop song. "When we got on stage—Bang!—this whole new persona overcame Dwight Yoakam," says Houchins, who was also in the Variety Show band. Breezy arrangement aside, it takes a big streak of rock star to pen a love-’em-and-leave-’em anthem as cold as “I’ll Be Gone.” D.M. After years traveling with Yoakam, Anderson and his wife Sally Browder, who is also a recording engineer, also wanted to simplify their lives. I did read that Dwight had canceled a tour once and the financial loss hurt Anderson, and he may have sued. This one got my attention. In her answer to the complaint, Thompson states that after she replaced Anderson in her band with another guitarist, he filed the unlawful-detainer suit as retaliation — and this is where the story gets ugly. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Country Charts and at #3 in Canada in 1993. DWIGHT: Pete Anderson and I had both, at different times, heard the song just driving in a car. The Bakersfield-sound flamekeeper examines how his nonconformist roots led to stardom. If anyone has the full story id love to hear. And even there I was only allowed to play the same six songs — it was really boring. The song was written by Yoakam and produced by Pete Anderson. "I'm from Detroit originally, and you don't grow up in Detroit without the blues getting inside you," says Anderson. Strolling Down Memory Lane Full of Wonderful Music. https://gazettereview.com/2016/10/happened-dwight-yoakam-news-updates First, Eddie Perez was faithful to the Anderson solos, using the familiar themes as a launching point for his own playing. During the recording process, Anderson sat in at the singer’s weekly Cody’s Viva Cantina residence and began to feature her on his own shows. ". Eventually I got him to add one song but I could still only do two a night. In 2017, country music fans were thrilled when singer-songwriter Tracy Dawn Thompson announced a collaboration with Grammy-winning producer and former Dwight Yoakam guitarist Pete Anderson. Since parting ways with Yoakam, Anderson has become what he prefers to call "a guitar player who produces records." 1 decade ago. Damn musicians," Anderson laughs. Since we started the Houston Press, it has been defined as the free, independent voice of Houston, and we would like to keep it that way. Pete Anderson, who has also served as Yoakam’s bandleader, filed suit in a California court against Yoakam and his company, Dwight Yoakam Tours Inc. Pete Anderson was born in Detroit, and grew up to become the creative partner of one of the most significant country artists of the 1980s, Dwight Yoakam. In our interview with Pete Anderson, he said: "The editor cut it for the movie, and he slowed it down for this scene where they were roller skating. He’d tell me how to perform, told me to not take the mic off the stand because singer-songwriters don’t do that and ‘I should know that.’ I film all my performances so I can study them later, and I saw that if I tried to tell a story or engage the crowd between songs, he’d pretend to look at his watch, roll his eyes and basically just make fun of me,” she said. Staff, He’s left me raging, abusive voicemails. Pete provided details on the genesis of his signature Reverend guitars and his no-amp, no-pedalboard rig. “He was controlling of what I wore onstage,” Thompson said. “I don’t even know if the recordings exist,” Thompson added. Discussion in 'Bad Dog Cafe' started by Lerb21, Jul 9, 2009 ... he would have become a star with any decent backing band behind him. Dwight was impossibly thin and edgy, in skin-tight cowboy duds, with Pete Anderson playing brilliant honky-tonk guitar and Brantley Kearns in overalls, sawing away at the fiddle. Dwight Yoakam was on a storyteller’s roll too good to interrupt, and he knew it. “My wardrobe has a rocker edge, I’ve been in the rock world, too — that’s who I am. “Even though I had a band, he began showing up and then put me on at his Moose Lodge gig,” Thompson said. "I was either on the road or in some studio all the time," says Anderson. "That gig was a guitar player's dream. ", Since parting ways with Yoakam, Anderson has become what he prefers to call "a guitar player who produces records. So I turned half of my four-car garage into a studio that is perfect for what I do. The 16-hour, eight-episode PBS miniseries—debuting on Sept. 15—offers a dazzling primer on country music but stumbles in certain areas, including its problems with race. Anderson stepped out on his own 10 years ago and launched his own record label, Little Dog Records. Lift Up Local, I never understood why Dwight cut Pete out of his life. A few things happened in the early ‘80s: Yoakam met a guitarist named Pete Anderson, who would become his right-hand man on stage and the producer of all his records. So I got a new guitar player while he was out of town and didn’t invite him back. The Houston Press may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. Pete Anderson was born in Detroit, and grew up to become the creative partner of one of the most significant country artists of the 1980s, Dwight Yoakam.An only child, Anderson's earliest musical memories revolve around the country & western music his father listened to and seeing Elvis on television. We played a couple of times. Contact Us, Since then, Pete Anderson has played guitar on his songs and produced most of the albums. For a while, Anderson worked with another Southern California twanger, Moot Davis. I never understood why Dwight cut Pete out of his life. I’m so disgusted that I just stopped caring about it. Anderson is passing through town promoting his latest project, a blues record titled Even Things Up. Privacy, Of course, right as we finished his second album he up and moves to New Zealand. Jul 9, 2009 #5. Around 1992 I did a record with the Lonesome Strangers with Pete Anderson, who is Dwight Yoakam’s guitar player. Overview ↓ Biography ↓ Discography ↓ Songs ↓ I don’t have any family here, I can’t couch surf with two dogs. I have fallen in love with all the Pete Anderson riffs in the Dwight songs and had no idea what to expect seeing Dwight live for the first time. For 10 minutes, he riffed on Buck Owens, the evolution of country rock, and why he chose to self-produce after years of collaborating with legendary guitarist/producer Pete Anderson. “Pete first offered to produce me in January 2017,” Thompson said. Yoakam's profile changed dramatically a few weeks later, however, after his performance in Northland's annual Variety Show, in which he and a handful of his stage-band mates put together a 1950s-style rock and roll band. Around 1992 I did a record with the Lonesome Strangers with Pete Anderson, who is Dwight Yoakam’s guitar player. I met Dwight Yoakam playing in a country bar. Up until recently, Pete and Dwight Yoakam were long-time collaborators, with Pete handling sole production of such classic Yoakam titles as Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. I went on the road with a top 40 club band for a brief while. To find out more, visit our cookies policy and our privacy policy. I’m just fighting the [unlawful detainer] so I don’t become homeless. What the Hell does that … He’s texted my mother and told her that I was a drug user. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Country Charts and at #3 in Canada in 1993. The grass isn’t always greener on the other side, or bluer in this case, which may be why Dwight Yoakam hadn’t thought of doing a bluegrass album over the years. (Disclosure: I have known Thompson and Anderson for years and both have been regularly featured on my monthly Messaround shows.). Pete Anderson is most widely known as the musical partner to Dwight Yoakam, (a little ‘side project’ that wound up helping to change the face of contemporary country music!) Dwight had the songs, but Pete had a very hard-edged guitar sound that attracted me, someone who wouldn’t ordinarily listen to country music. The producer had personally moved her into the unit 14 months ago with, as Thompson tells it, an oral contract that specified she remain there as a guest until she had a steady source of income, at which point Anderson would again relocate her. Eventually, after moving the singer into his building, Thompson said, Anderson went full-on Svengali and the whole arrangement soured. The collaboration seemed ideal, with Anderson’s streamlined honky-tonk updates perfectly supporting Thompson’s meticulously crafted songs, but things quickly began to deteriorate. I do not appreciate it when people continually repost my posts on other groups or forums after removing the tags & not giving any credit as to where they got it from. So my daunting task was to recut 'Crying' as a duet with kd lang, Roy Orbison, and slow it down a little bit. "We had such a great run," says Anderson from his Little Dog home studio in Los Angeles. If known only for his guitar playing and production work with Dwight Yoakam, singer/songwriter Pete Anderson would still be a legend in both the … Honestly, those people don't have a clue. “We shared the band with [blues singer] Lightnin’ Willie at Viva, and when I asked to be paid $50, which was the deal, [Anderson would] get very angry and start yelling at me, so I usually wasn’t paid at all. But he also hadn’t forgotten that he was answering a question about the high-energy sound of his new album. The duo began recording and performing together but late last month Anderson filed an unlawful-detainer lawsuit against the singer seeking to evict her from a Los Angeles apartment building he owns. Help, Houston's independent source of local news and culture. We were on the phone with each other, one day, immediately after I had heard it and I said, “Remember that shuffle Sonny and Cher did?” We both felt it was a well-written song and had always liked it. That changed my whole musical world, I became music literate. Pete Anderson hasn't worked with Dwight Yoakam since 2002, but his association with Yoakam was so successful and visible he may never shake free of that shadow. Dwight graduated from Northland High School and attended Ohio State University. "One day I just decided a home studio was the way to go. “He was just stringing me along. Following his 20 years with Yoakam, producing 16 records with the singer, 10 of which went gold or platinum, an acrimonious split prompted Anderson to sue Yoakam for $60,000 in lost earnings, alleging that the singer breached an oral contract by pulling out of a 2002 tour to shoot a movie (they settled out of court). I went on the road with a top 40 club band for a brief while. A former producer called me — he’d seen those outfits and was worried about it, he told me, ‘You’re losing your vibe.’ Other friends said the same thing and some just stopped coming to the shows because it was too painful to watch. Pete Anderson is an American guitarist, music producer, arranger and songwriter.. Anderson is most known for his guitar work with, and critically acclaimed production of, country music star Dwight Yoakam from 1984 through 2002, a partnership that resulted in numerous platinum records, sold-out tours, and some music in the Bakersfield and hillbilly traditions. Pete told me that if I was going to wear a dress, then I had to wear jeans underneath it. 7 p.m., Monday, May 2, Dan Electro's Guitar Bar, 1031 E. 24th St., 713-862-8707. Anderson was the yin to Richard Bennett’s yang. and Hillbilly Deluxe.And although Yoakam was the main songwriter on those albums, Anderson often lends a hand musically, but providing guitar, backing vocals, and a variety of other instruments. Well, not too long ago, I had the chance to talk with Dwight at the Crystal Palace in Bakersfield, and he said that most of his band just uses that old classic type of feel so he can retain a vintage, yet simple sound. Posted in Songwriter 101 on November 2, 2005 By Dave Simons. In country songs,why do people say "suckee" in the middle of the song? I did a scratch vocal on that first session and another time we went back in and re-tracked the guitar and I did another scratch vocal. Some call him the architect of the Dwight Yoakam sound. He began texting me, saying I should ‘put my stuff in storage and couch surf.’ He called me horrible names and told me to go sleep in my car. I felt like an Amish girl. The first session was on March 18, my birthday, and I was really excited about it.”. I did read that Dwight had canceled a tour once and the financial loss hurt Anderson, and he may have sued. To hear producer Pete Anderson tell it, Dwight Yoakam's career was according to plan, mapped out before it even existed. Then I came back to Los Angeles and shuffled around for about 9 years playing, jamming and recording. Pete did so much for him. "He was swinging around, and laying … Pete Anderson’s primary guitars are two custom-built Tom Anderson Hollow T Classic models and when it’s time to strum a little acoustic, Anderson grabs a Martin HD-28 or this Larrivee. GUITAR IN THE STYLE OF DWIGHT YOAKAM ! I was bored but he wouldn’t change it. Pete was the lead guitarist and producer for Dwight Yoakam from 1984 to 2002, and now works extensively on his own music and currently produces all the backing tracks for the famous Guitar Center King of the Blues competition. Her CD of original pop jazz with John Adair titled “Stella Nova - … You can help by participating in our "I Support" membership program, allowing us to keep covering Houston with no paywalls. Then I came back to Los Angeles and shuffled around for about 9 years playing, jamming and recording. I'm not a record producer the way most people mean it. After practically inventing neo-country twang in the ‘80s with Dwight Yoakam, Pete Anderson will probably always be associated with Telecasters. The song was written by Yoakam and produced by Pete Anderson. 12 Years Of Recording Dwight Yoakam Dusty Wakeman Ron told me of plans to record a country and cowpunk compilation and asked if I wanted to be the engineer, which, being Texas born-n-bred, I jumped on. 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