Just Lookin' for a Hit

Just Lookin' for a Hit
Greatest hits album by Dwight Yoakam
Released	September 20, 1989
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)

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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
   • duet with k.d. lang
9. "Please, Please Baby" (Yoakam) – 3:35
10. "Streets of Bakersfield" (Homer Joy) – 2:49
    • duet with Buck Owens

Personnel

• Pete Anderson - acoustic guitar, six-string bass guitar, electric guitar, percussion
• Tom Brumley - pedal steel guitar
• Jeff Donavan - drums
• Skip Edwards - piano
• J.D. Foster - bass guitar
• Glen D. Hardin - piano
• Flaco Jiménez - accordion
• Scott Joss - mandolin, background vocals
• Brantley Kearns - fiddle, background vocals
• k.d. lang - duet vocals on "Sin City"
• Jim Lauderdale - background vocals
• Buck Owens - duet vocals on "Streets of Bakersfield"
• Taras Prodaniuk - bass guitar
• Don Reed - fiddle
• Dusty Wakeman - six-string bass guitar
• Dwight Yoakam - acoustic guitar, percussion, lead vocals, background vocals

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

1. Allmusic review