Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat launches on SiriusXM

GRAMMY Award-winner and country music icon Dwight Yoakam launched his very own SiriusXM channel, Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat.

Curated by Dwight Yoakam, the channel features music from Yoakam’s extensive career and his musical friends. It celebrates the Bakersfield sound and those whom it has inspired — including Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Wynn Stewart, Tommy Collins, The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Eagles, The Blasters, Lucinda Williams and more.

The channel encompasses all that is California country and country rock, in all of its various and varietal hybrid forms, from Ricky Nelson to Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt, and includes artists from the movement in LA in the early to middle ’80s that Yoakam broke out of, and will feature bands as diverse as X, Lone Justice, and Los Lobos.

This movement was encapsulated in the series of albums titled “A Town South of Bakersfield” and has led variations over time to the current continuing country scene in LA, all of which Yoakam has dubbed as a segment for his channel entitled “That Town South of Bakersfield: From Cow Punks To Now Punks.”

The channel will additionally feature the weekly show “Greater Bakersfield,” co-hosted by Dwight Yoakam and James Austin along with special guests who explore the influence and reaches that the Bakersfield Sound has across musical genres. Scheduled guests include Chris Hillman, Jakob Dylan, Post Malone, Mike Nesmith and Mickey Dolans, Dave Alvin, and Jackie DeShannon.

Listen to Dwight Yoakam and The Bakersfield Beat on channel 349 on select SiriusXM radios and the SiriusXM app.