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Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room, 1988
Written by Homer Joy, 1973
Yoakam got Buck Owens, who originally released this song, to do it with him as a duet. It prominently features a Mexican accordion, giving it a bouncing, jaunty rhythm, belying the lyric which tells of a restless drifter looking for a brighter road, only to end up in jail. "I've spent a thousand miles of thumbin' / Yes, I've worn blisters on my heels / Trying to find me something better." The song is an example of the Bakersfield sound, a country genre marked by rock and roll and honky-tonk influences, and its heavy use of electric instrumentation and backbeats.
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