Today, a 21-time nominee, multiple Grammy Award winner and country superstar Dwight Yoakam unveils the music video for his new song “I Don’t Know How To Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)” featuring Post Malone. The video will premiere on CMT, CMT Music, CMT Equal and Paramount Times Square Billboard. Watch HERE and listen HERE.

The music video, starring Yoakam and Post Malone, also features Nina Dobrev, Malin Akerman and The Babylonian Cowboys (Mitch Marine (drums), Eugene Edwards (electric guitar), Jonathan Clark (bass guitar), Steve Peavey (Fiddle, Pedal Steel , Organ The single was specially written by Yoakam for a collaboration with Post Malone and was directed by Gregory Alosio.

Yoakam recently confirmed his first album of new music in nine years, Brighter Days, out November 15 on Via Records/Thirty Tigers. Pre-order/pre-save Brighter days HERE.

Written and recorded over the past three years, Brighter Days features twelve brand new songs written/co-written by Yoakam, as well as three seemingly disparate covers of the Carter Family’s ‘Keeping On The Sunny Side’, Cake’s ‘Bound Away’ and ‘Time Between’ by The Byrds artfully woven into the same oeuvre in the unmistakable style that only Dwight Yoakam could be.

At once timeless and current, Yoakam self-produced Brighter Days, combining a modern appreciation for country music history with California’s pioneering rock ‘n’ roll spirit. The result is an album that reflects a sense of craftsmanship and immediacy and captures Dwight Yoakam’s signature cool that has distinguished him from his country contemporaries since the beginning of his legendary career. As always, Yoakam’s lyrics throughout the album are both deceptively effortless and deeply affecting. The album was mixed by world-class engineer Chris Lord-Alge.

Dwight Yoakam has sold more than 26 million albums worldwide, five of which reached No. 1 on Billboard. He is a 21-time nominee and multiple Grammy Award winner. He has twelve gold albums and nine platinum or multi-platinum albums. Yoakam is the recipient of the Americana Music Association’s Artist of the Year Award, the prestigious BMI Country Awards’ President’s Award, and has been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. He will receive a Lifetime Achievement Honor at the 2024 Americana Music Awards. He has worked with everyone from Beck to Kid Rock, ZZ Top, Hunter S. Thompson and Jack White. He toured with Buck Owens, Johnny Cash and Hüsker Dü, among others. Yoakam’s last album, Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…, was released in 2016. Rolling Stone Country says, “Yoakam sounds right at home on these new versions,” while NPR Music praises, “You can hear Yoakam’s masterful choices with every sentence to make. .”

In addition to his music career, Yoakam has appeared in more than 40 feature films, including Sling Blade, Panic Room and Steven Soderbergh’s Logan Lucky with Channing Tatum and Daniel Craig, plus a role in the Amazon series Goliath. Over the course of his legendary acting career, he has worked with the likes of Jodie Foster, Tommy Lee Jones, Jared Leto, Matthew McConaughey and more.

In 1977, Yoakam left Kentucky for Nashville to pursue a music career, only to find the Music City turning away from traditional country roots toward more pop country. He found himself better suited to the post-Bakersfield movement and became one of the founders of the ‘LA Cowpunk Scene’, influenced by second wave rockabilly and punk, alongside X, Los Lobos, The Knitters, Rank & File and The Blasters.

Dwight Yoakam – Brighter Days
TRACKLIST
1. Wide open heart
2. I pay the price
3. Tied Away (Cake Cover)
4. California heaven
5. Can’t be wrong
6. I spell love
7. A dream that never ends
8. Brighter days
9. I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom) (featuring Post Malone)
10. If possible
11. Give me a heart
12. Time Between (the Byrds cover)
13. Stay on the Sunny Side (Carter Family cover)
14. Every night

TOUR DATES
October 11 – Las Vegas, NV – Red Rock Resort*
October 12 – Flagstaff, AZ – Pepsi Amphitheater*
October 14 – Fresno, CA – The Big Fresno Fair
October 17 – Clarksville, TN – F&M Bank Arena†
October 18 – Tuscaloosa, AL – Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater†
October 19 – Brandon, MS – Brandon Amphitheater†
November 13 – St. Augustine, Florida – St. Augustine Amphitheater†
November 14 – Clearwater, FL – The Baycare Sound at Coachman Park†
November 15 – Pompano Beach, FL – Pompano Beach Amphitheater†
November 21 – Grand Prairie, Texas – Texas Trust CU Theater‡
November 22 – Beaumont, Texas – Ford Park Pavilion§
November 23 – Corpus Christi, Texas – American Bank Center Arena§
*Drayton Farley
†The Mavericks with Drayton Farley
‡Joshua Ray Walker
§Gary Allan with Joshua Ray Walker