Bakersfield, California, country twanger Dwight Yoakam shares a bit of Hollywood with Feldman. Yoakam has credits in several movies, most notably 1996’s “Sling Blade,” playing opposite Billy Bob Thornton in the Thornton-penned and directed movie. Yoakam played the cruel boyfriend who finds out the hard way what Karl Childers (Thornton) could do with a sling blade when properly provoked.
But Hollywood will be worlds away when Yoakam, 60, takes the stage at the AVA at Casino del Sol Resort & Casino, 5655 W. Valencia Road, on Thursday, July 27. He’ll pull out his classic cowpunk hits — “Guitars, Cadillacs,” “A Thousand Miles From Nowhere,” “Ain’t That Lonely Yet” — as well as cuts off his new bluegrass album “Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars ...,” a collection of his hits stripped of electric guitars and amped up with fiddle and dobro. If we’re lucky, he will play his acoustic cover of Prince’s “Purple Rain.” (Check out the video at tucson.com)
Brandy Clark and King Leg are on the bill and the show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets are $25-$75 through tickets.casinodelsol.com
- Cathalena E. Burch
