Dwight Yoakam at Flagstar at Westbury Music Fair

American singer-songwriter, musician, and actor Dwight Yoakam is a pioneer of country music, who first found fame in the mid-1980s with his honky-tonk, rock and roll country stylings. To date, Yoakam has recorded more than twenty albums and compilations, charted over thirty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, and sold more than 25 million records worldwide. Five of his albums have reached number one on the Billboard charts, and he has released twelve gold albums, and nine platinum albums, including the triple-platinum This Time (1993). He has won two Grammy Awards from sixteen nominations, as well as multiple other awards, and he is the most frequent musical guest in the history of The Tonight Show.