The first Epiphone Casino ever owned by Dwight Yoakam, this guitar is featured on the cover of his 2005sixteenth studio album, Blame the Vain and it appears in the official music videos for both "Blame the Vain" and "Intentional Heartache". The Blame the Vain album heralded a new era in Yoakam's career, being the first where he single-handedly wrote all of the songs and produced the album. He also directed the music videos for both "Intentional Heartache" and the title track. In comments to his biographer, Don McCleese, Yoakam cites Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" as inspiration for the sound production quality of the Blame the Vain album:
"On Blame the Vain, I was doing things with the bass, specifically. The frequency of the bass response was more akin to something you might hear in 1968 than you would in the mid-1970s, when tape heads were wider and you went to twenty-four-track, so you were playing with sonics differently…If you listened to "Bridge Over Troubled Water", which was recorded in like 1971, there was this recording technology that we kind of slipped beyond in the mid-1970s, and everything got overly thick. And we lost the beauty of melody."
Dwight Yoakam has won 2 Academy of Country Music Awards and received 10 nominations.
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Photos courtesy of Dwight Yoakam
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Some pick wear on the pickguard and some on the bassside near the pickups, there is some light "belt rash" on the back, all parts are original and in playable condition.
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