Dwight Yoakam plays a character named Wendell Corey. There was an actual Wendell Corey, a character actor, who served on the city council of Santa Monica, where this series is filmed. He's best known as the cop from Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Rear Window (1954). He had his own TV series, Harbor Command (1957).
Dwight Yoakam also appeared as a co-star in a Billy Bob Thornton early film titled Sling Blade (1996).