| Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the | |
| Type: | greatest |
| Artist: | Dwight Yoakam |
| Cover: | dwightlast.jpg |
| Recorded: | 1990–1999 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Length: | 49:04 |
| Label: | Reprise |
| Producer: | Pete Anderson |
| Prev Title: | A Long Way Home |
| Prev Year: | 1998 |
| Next Title: | dwightyoakamacoustic.net |
| Next Year: | 2000 |
Last Chance for a Thousand Years: Dwight Yoakam's Greatest Hits from the is the second compilation album by American country music singer Dwight Yoakam. It includes 11 of his hit singles from the 1990s, as well as three new recordings. These new songs are a cover of Queen's "Crazy Little Thing Called Love", as well as an adapted rendition of Rodney Crowell's "Thinking About Leaving" and "I'll Go Back to Her", originally by Waylon Jennings. “Crazy Little Thing Called Love,” which hit #12 on the country singles chart and rose to #64 on Billboard’s Hot 100, was Yoakam's biggest hit single since 1993's "Fast as You." Last Chance for a Thousand Years has been certified gold by the RIAA.
Track information and credits verified from the album's liner notes.[1]
| Year | Single | Chart positions | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Country | US | CAN Country | CAN AC | ||||||
| 1999 | "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | 12[3] | 64[4] | 1 | 19 | ||||
| "Thinking About Leaving" | 54[5] | — | 59 | — | |||||
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart | |||||||||