Alt-country kingpin and part-time thespian Dwight Yoakam lately has been offered prestigious acting gigs, like playing Gen. George Meade in the Civil War miniseries “To Appomattox” and Doc Miles in the Jason Statham franchise “Crank.”
He even was briefly attached to Gore Verbinski’s still-filming reboot of “The Lone Ranger,” but after false starts, Yoakam, who plays Hardly Strictly Bluegrass on Sunday, opted to finish his new album “3 Pears” instead.
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Grammy-winning pop stylist Michelle Branch hadn’t planned on composing a pure country solo album, initially. But — inspired by her love of California twangsmiths such as Gram Parsons and Dwight Yoakam, plus her stint in a one-off folk duo with Jessica Harp called The Wreckers — she wound up living in Nashville, Tenn., where she tracked a banjo-and-pedal-steel-girdered recording for Warner Bros.
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If you haven’t caught the FX network’s great new Thursday-night series “Wilfred,” do yourself a favor and tune in tonight to Elijah Wood’s hapless Ryan character deal with his strange post-suicide-attempt reality: His next-door neighbor’s giant talking dog that only he can hear (played with droll deadpan wit by actor Jason Gann, reprising his dog-suited role from the hit Aussie show).
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