Time for another edition of, “I can’t get that song out of my head.”
This one comes to us from Dwight Yoakum and friends, but the sound that continues to play in my mind is from the guest artist on the record by the name of Flaco Jiménez, who hails from San Antonio, Texas.
Flaco’s accordion pairs well with the song.
Homer Joy wrote it after a run-in with a recording studio manager.
Without further delay, let’s listen to Dwight, his hero Buck Owens, and Flaco in the 1988 remake of “Streets of Bakersfield”:
Charlie Haldeman 