For about three hours, Dwight Yoakam sat at a conference table with ... Yoakam’s life as a family man and husband — he and his wife, Emily, a photographer, married in 2020.

Dwight Yoakam spent his formative years acting in theater productions and singing and playing guitar in local garage bands. In 1978, after a brief stint in Nashville, Yoakam relocated to Los Angeles.