This Time is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Dwight Yoakam, released by Reprise Records on March 23, 1993.

With production help from Dusty Wakeman, longtime producer and guitarist Pete Anderson was able to add depth and dimension to an already full sound, where the echoes of early rock and soul entwine the honky tonk tempos and instruments and become something wholly other.

Yoakam renewed his songwriting collaboration with Kostas, which started on his previous album, composing four of the LP's eleven tracks with him.

As AllMusic critic Thom Jurek notes, "...in Kostas, Yoakam found a writer as interested in textures as in unique ways to use his voice.

"[4] First single "Ain't That Lonely Yet" is an orchestrated mid-tempo song featuring a string arrangement by Paul Buckmaster, known for his work with Elton John.

The remaining originals are rooted in country, with the kitschy "Pocket of a Clown" hearkening back to his earlier cover of Lefty Frizzell's "Always Late with Your Kisses" with its prominent background singers, and "Home for Sale," which utilizes the B3 Hammond organ that was introduced on his previous album.

This Time is no sell out; it's a new way to present the timelessness of hard, torn, wasted-love country love songs with less reckless sentimentality and more honest emotion.