Just Lookin' for a Hit

Just Lookin' for a Hit
Greatest hits album by Dwight Yoakam
Released September 20, 1989 (1989-09-20)
Genre Country
Length 34:59
Label Reprise
Producer Pete Anderson
Dwight Yoakam chronology
Buenas Noches from a Lonely Room
(1988)
Just Lookin' for a Hit
(1989)
If There Was a Way
(1990)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]

Just Lookin' for a Hit is the first greatest hits compilation album released by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam. It includes eight singles from his 1980s albums for Reprise Records, as well as two newly recorded cover songs: "Long White Cadillac", originally recorded by The Blasters, and "Sin City", originally recorded by the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Track listing

  1. "Long White Cadillac" (Dave Alvin) – 5:21
  2. "Little Ways" (Yoakam) – 3:21
  3. "Honky Tonk Man" (Johnny Horton, Tillman Franks, Howard Hausey) – 2:47
  4. "I Got You" (Yoakam) – 3:31
  5. "Little Sister" (Doc Pomus, Mort Shuman) – 3:04
  6. "I Sang Dixie" (Yoakam) – 3:50
  7. "Guitars, Cadillacs" (Yoakam) – 3:04
  8. "Sin City" (Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman) – 3:55
  9. "Please, Please Baby" (Yoakam) – 3:35
  10. "Streets of Bakersfield" (Homer Joy) – 2:49

Personnel

Chart performance

Album

Chart (1989) Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums 3
U.S. Billboard 200 68
Canadian Albums Chart 64

Singles

Year Single Chart positions
US Country CAN Country
1989 "Long White Cadillac" 35 44

References

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