Country veteran Dwight Yoakam has enlisted Post Malone for his first piece of new music in nine years. “I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)” leads the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter’s forthcoming studio album, Brighter Days—out November 15. Yoakam wrote the new song specifically for a duet with Post Malone, who recently went country on his new LP F-1 Trillion. Check it out below.
Brighter Days is Yoakam’s first full-length since 2016’s Swimmin’ Pools, Movie Stars…. The 12-track release features 10 originals, as well as covers of “Bound Away,” by Cake, and the Carter Family classic “Keeping on the Sunny Side.”
Earlier this year, Post Malone and Dwight Yoakam performed together at Stagecoach. And, years back, they hung out in Los Angeles and played a handful of songs, like Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” Yoakam’s “A Thousand Miles from Nowhere,” and Merle Haggard’s “The Bottle Let Me Down.”
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Brighter Days:
01 Wide Open Heart
02 I’ll Pay the Price
03 Bound Away
04 California Sky
05 Can’t Be Wrong
06 I Spell Love
07 A Dream That Never Ends
08 Brighter Days
09 I Don’t Know How to Say Goodbye (Bang Bang Boom Boom)
10 If Only
11 Hand Me Down Heart
12 Time Between
13 Keep on the Sunny Side
14 Every Night