Jimmie Dale Gilmore

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For his second solo record, Jimmie Dale Gilmore brought steel guitarist, coproducer, and fellow Texan Lloyd Maines with him to Nashville in 1989, resulting in an album that fuses Gilmore's dreamy "cosmic cowboy" progressivism with good, old-fashioned honky-tonk (both heavy-grinding Nashville style and nimbly swinging Texas style) and a tinge of rockabilly. Gilmore revisits his own Flatlanders contribution "Dallas" and adds two other originals, two songs from buddy Butch Hancock, and two he cowrote with Hancock. In many ways, Jimmie Dale Gilmore builds important musical bridges, bringing together both the fans and the sounds of stone traditional country with those of rootsy, twangy 1980s rock. It also presages the "alternative country" movement, not so much sonically but psychologically, helping to redefine both audience and performers of soulful, honest country music. --Marc Greilsamer

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Average customer rating: I miss the old JDG 4 and 1/2 stars, wonderful you gotta get this one flatland music

Come on Back Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Honky-Tonk | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music New Traditionalist | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Spinning Around the Sun One Endless Night Fair & Square Pay the Devil Don't Look for a Heartache ASIN: B000A6T2LW Release Date: 2005-08-16

Tracks:

1. Pick Me Up on Your Way Down
2. Saginaw, Michigan
3. Standin on the Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9)
4. Dont Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes
5. Four Walls
6. Ill Never Get Out of This World Alive
7. Walking the Floor Over You
8. Im Movin On
9. Dont Worry Bout Me
10. Train of Love
11. Jimmie Brown the Newsboy
12. Gotta Travel On
13. Peace in the Valley

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Here's the stuff honky-tonk heroes are made of: wistful heartbreak classics like Harlan Howard's "Pick Me Up on Your Way Down," Johnny Cash's "Train of Love," Hank Snow's "I'm Movin' On," Ernest Tubb's "Walking the Floor over You," and seven others sung by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, the Texas troubadour and member of the Flatlanders who was born with a teardrop in his voice. There are no surprises on Come On Back, just rewards, as Gilmore and producer Joe Ely rely on tried-and-true arrangements that frame the singer's angelic warble with deft touches of baritone guitar twang, tasteful slide lines, and sparks of bright fiddle. But the disc's more than a Biblical reading of country's cryin' side. These tunes were also favorites of Gilmore's late father, a roadhouse guitarist who died from Lou Gehrig's disease. And that makes Jimmie Dale's readings of Hank Williams's "I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive" and the gospel closer "Peace in the Valley" all the more poignant. --Ted Drozdowski

Album Description

Jimmie Dale Gilmore's first album since his critically lauded `One Endless Night' (2000) is a collection of songs introduced to Jimmie by his father as he was growing up in Lubbock, Texas. Most of the songs were written and/or made popular by classic country artists such as Johnny Cash, Ernest Tubb, Hank Snow, and Ray Price. Jimmie makes each song his own with the same soulful, timeless delivery which has made him an American treasure since his early days with The Flatlanders.

Customer Reviews:

I miss the old JDG.......2007-05-09

I have all of Jimmie Dale's CDs and I love his unique voice. But despite repeated listenings, this CD just didn't do it for me, and in fact, none of his last few CDs have satisfied me. His two best CDs are "Fair & Square" and his self-titled CD. Those are real, old-fashioned honky tonk and remain among my favorites of all time. While this CD marks a return to real country (his latest albums weren't country in my book), the songs just left me flat. Having said that, I'm obviously in the minority with my opinion.

4 and 1/2 stars,.......2007-04-05

i had a dream last night. i dreamed that i lived in a world where toby keith, vince gill and garth brooks were anonymous individuals, perhaps working in construction, and that the most lauded and famous country music stars were fellas named "billy joe shaver," "buddy miller," and "jimmie dale gilmore." what a great dream. and when i awoke i was sad, because i remembered how the world really was. i just wanted to go back to sleep and dream some more.

wonderful.......2007-04-01

I bought this album not knowing what it was about at all, and only discovered it was a tribute to the artist's father once it was playing. I had recently lost my own dear dad, and the album touched me deeply. What a wonderful way to remember your father; this is real music. Honest, heartfelt, and guaranteed to resonate deeply with anyone who's been in the position the artist has been in. I can't give the album as a whole five stars, since (for me) there are two peak moments on the CD, and the rest of it, by definition, is slightly less powerful. Overall though, an excellent recording - thank you Jimmy Dale Gilmore.

you gotta get this one.......2006-09-18

After first becoming aware of this talent as part of the trio comprising THE FLATLANDERS, I began my search for this unique and interesting sound from this voice and guitar player.

A true master of the craft of songmanship...arrangements, lyrics, and sound...it is nice to hear some of his original compositions with a few old classics thrown in.

For the Flatlanders fan and the Jimmie Dale Gilmore fan, this is a must have. For the curious, this is a must have that will turn you into the aforementioned fan.

flatland music.......2006-07-03

Another aspect of the cultural revolution that we are having to endure right now is the claim to the title to country music. A lot of people that watch country music channel on cable tv don't even like traditional country music. In fact they don't even know what it is. These are the people that liked Tony Bennett and Jo Stafford back in the 50's but didn't even know who Hank Williams was. And, they think of themselves as conservatives. What are they conserving? Jimmie Dale Gilmore is conserving the country music of tradition even while making it uniquely his own.

Average customer rating: Brilliant 4 1/2 stars. Great American CD Leaves Me Cold An extraordinary album by an extraordinary talent

Braver Newer World Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Spinning Around the Sun One Endless Night After Awhile Don't Look for a Heartache Come on Back ASIN: B000002HJZ Release Date: 1996-06-25

Tracks:

1. Braver Newer World
2. Come Fly Away
3. Borderland
4. Headed For A Fall
5. Long, Long Time
6. Sally
7. There She Goes
8. Where Is Love Now
9. Black Snake Moan
10. Because Of The Wind
11. Outside The Lines

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore's third Elektra album comes as a corrective of sorts to fellow ex-Flatlander Joe Ely's ambitious but disappointing Letter to Laredo. While Braver Newer World doesn't quite cohere like Gilmore's brilliant 1991 disc After Awhile, its risks generally pay off. Produced by T-Bone Burnett, the disc initially seems to indicate a full-scale embrace of hippie-ism that's perfectly in tune with Gilmore's Zen-country leanings. Sitars twang, French horns evoke sticky pop psychedelia, and the artist revives as best he can a painfully earnest folksong "Sally," by Texas pal A.B. Strehli. Gilmore's Buddhism reaches full flower here on the title cut and a Strehli ballad, "Come Fly Away," making interesting implications about his collaboration with Burnett, one of rock's most famous drunken seekers. Burnett's wife Sam Phillips contributes one of the best songs here, "Where Is Love Now," which in turn gets one of World's most adventurous treatments; the Beck-like beatbox and deep-dish Orbisonisms of (presumably) Burnett's guitar are a striking backdrop for a voice and lyric that drip high lonesomeness. Some of Gilmore's fundamental roots are also on display here, on a yowling lo-fi take on the ancient blues number "Long Snake Moan" and a version of Ely's "Because of the Wind" that, somewhat surprisingly, fails to light a real fire under the players. Still, the overall anything-goes approach makes World both a good document of this period in Gilmore's evolution and a fine introduction for those who've missed him in the past. --Rickey Wright

Customer Reviews:

Brilliant.......2007-06-19

Braver and newer. A modern tapestry that blends it all. He should have continued in this direction. Great songs.

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-05

i had a dream last night. i dreamed that i lived in a world where toby keith, vince gill and garth brooks were anonymous individuals, perhaps working in construction, and that the most lauded and famous country music stars were fellas named "billy joe shaver," "buddy miller," and "jimmie dale gilmore." what a great dream. and when i awoke i was sad, because i remembered how the world really was. i just wanted to go back to sleep and dream some more.

Great American CD.......2006-08-13

I am really into TW Zandt, John Prine, Jerry Jeff Walker, Uncle Tupelo, RE Keen, etc. Jimmie Dale G is right up there with those greats...this is the 1st time I have really heard Jimmie Dale and I am convinced he will be that ethereal, twangy, stoned Hall of Fame with Willie, Joe, Guy, and Townes.

Leaves Me Cold.......2006-06-30

I'm adding my voice to the two others before me who were unimpressed by this album. Several of the reviewers who praise this album attribute the two negative reviews to fans of Gilmore's more traditional country albums who cannot accept the more adventurous production provided here by T Bone Burnett. Well, that doesn't describe me at all. I'm a big fans of Burnett and like almost all of his other production jobs. And this is the only Jimmie Dale Gilmore solo album I've ever heard, so my opinion has nothing to do with comparisons to his other solo works.

So, in many ways I should have loved this album. I like the first Flatlanders album, I like Joe Ely, I like Butch Hancock, I prefer my country music to have a bit of rock 'n' roll edge to it. When I started listening to this, I thought at first that it just needed more time to grow on me. Well, after about 6 listens, I now know that it will never grow on me. I like one song a lot - "Borderlands". The title track is OK. The rest just sounds lifeless to me.

I think the biggest problem for me is that the production sounds mismatched to the music. This is especially true of the drum sound, which is primitive and would fit in more on an alternative rock or even punk rock album. I might like this sound on one of T Bone's solo albums, but it sounds completely out of place with Gilmore's voice and songs.

That being said, I don't think I'd be a big fan of this album even if it had a more standard country sound that fit Gilmore's style better. Neither his songs nor his voice seem very compelling to me.

An extraordinary album by an extraordinary talent.......2006-05-06

I logged on intending to review a movie I'd just seen and a book I'd just finished, but found myself perusing reviews of Jimmie Dale Gilmore. I was absolutely stunned to see that this masterpiece was receiving only four-stars overall, brought down mainly by an inexplicable one-star and a two-star review. It is simply inconceivable to me that anyone with any degree of musical sensitivities could give this album a rating that low. I have no explanation. Perhaps they owned a previous Gilmore album and can accept nothing that departs from their very narrow expectations. Perhaps they are country traditionalists and will accept no variants on that. Perhaps they have tin ears. But these are marginal, aberrant opinions. This album is very widely regarded as one of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's finest albums, and possibly his best. For instance, Rolling Stone gave it a rare 4-stars when it came out while its readers have given it a 5-star rating. Allmusic.com's review concludes, "Arguably his finest work." These are much more typical of the critical and fan reaction to this fine album than these bizarre low ratings.

The album is buoyed throughout by Gilmore's typical likable, reflective, almost spiritual lyrics and sensibilities. It does represent a bit of a departure from his previous albums in that it features some sonic experimentation that is not typical of a Gilmore album (a possible source of the aberrant fan reviews found here). The producer is legend T-Bone Burnett, a man with many of the same sensibilities as Gilmore (Burnett is one of the most deliciously rowdy Christians I know) but with a wider sonic palette. No question he played a role in expanding Gilmore's sound. Nonetheless, the focus remains on Gilmore's delightful, warm, yearning tenor. It may not sound like previous Gilmore albums, but it still sounds entirely like Gilmore.

There really are no weak cuts on the album, but to a degree most of the songs are hurt by comparison with two utter masterpieces. "Braver New World" is about as beautiful as any song recorded in the past ten years. It opens with lovely instrumentation unexpectedly graced by a heavily distorted guitar and Jimmie singing on the first verse:

Tell me now that you know how
To greet the dawn each day.
Fearless and unfettered, stand
Before the sun and pray.
There's no controversy
Let silence judge your plea
For justice or for mercy.
They both will set you free.

His phrasing on the song is impeccable, giving many of the words unexpected breaks, sometimes intoning the words as if imitating a steel pedal guitar. This truly is as fine a song as any that Jimmie Dale Gilmore has ever sung, an absolutely stunning performance on every level. The miracle is that "Heading for a Fall" is every bit as good. The first time I heard the album, I almost didn't hear the rest for repeating this song. It is a wonderfully ironic number, with him singing to a woman he yearns for. He basically informs her that she is harboring unrealistic fantasies about her future and that he will be waiting for her when her expectations come crashing down. He sings to her:

Don't put your dreams way up there in the clouds
I don't think that's what It's all about
You can't get much higher when you're so above it all
I'll be waiting here when you hit bottom
I believe you're headed for a fall.

The irony comes from the fact that it is possible that he is the one that is fantasizing. Every word that he addresses to her could just as easily be addressed to him. So instead of a triumphant declaration of their future love together, the song is simultaneously a sad expression of a man's self-delusion. The double meaning of the song gives it a heartbreaking dimension belied by the surface meaning of the song. It is all in all a remarkable composition.

The only real problem with the Internet and reviewing sites is that people who really don't know what they are talking about get equal time with those who do. In this instance, I will assert that the very low reviews here should just be completely ignored. They do not represent established or widespread views about this album, which is almost universally agreed to be among Gilmore's very finest efforts. I would, in fact, place this among the top ten country albums of the past decade and would recommend it as a great starting place for learning about Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

Average customer rating: The 5 is for newcomers to JDG Not what I'd hoped for Jimmy Dale can do no wrong Excellent Cherry-picked collection of Gilmore's early solo work

Don't Look for a Heartache Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Hightone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Come on Back Spinning Around the Sun One Endless Night After Awhile Braver Newer World ASIN: B0001DMWXE Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

1. White Freight Liner Blues
2. Fair & Square
3. Don't Look for a Heartache
4. Just a Wave, Not the Water
5. When the Nights Are Cold
6. Ramblin' Man
7. Honky Tonk Song
8. Beautiful Rose
9. Rain Just Falls
10. Dallas
11. Red Chevrolet
12. Deep Eddy Blues
13. That Hardwood Floor
14. Honky Tonk Masquerade
15. See the Way

Customer Reviews:

The 5 is for newcomers to JDG.......2007-05-29

But for myself I'd have to give it a 2 because of so many songs that are already on his other albums. For someone who has no JDG album this is a great one.

Not what I'd hoped for.......2007-05-16

I was familiar with a few of Jimmie Dale Gilmore's songs and two were on this album. Then I learned to like another one or two. Otherwise the rest was pretty much nothing to write home about, but likeable.

Jimmy Dale can do no wrong.......2007-01-30

This is neither the best nor the worst. This artist is always enjoyable.Have to play it more to really decide which cuts I like best.

Excellent.......2005-09-08

This is one of his best. Haunting music with great stories and his beautiful voice soaring upwards combine to make this a fantastic CD. I've been a Jimmie Dale Gilmore fan for years and he's never let me down. Best of all, unlike the newer "country", I can understand every word he says.

Cherry-picked collection of Gilmore's early solo work.......2004-05-29

Having played in club bands, had his songs recorded by others, and formed the then short-lived Flatlanders, Gilmore came to his first two solo albums (1988's "Fair and Square" and 1989's "Jimmie Dale Gilmore") fully formed. He'd already moved back and forth to Austin twice, been awakened to new songwriting possibilities by the works of Townes Van Zandt, and penned catalog staples like "Dallas." It was with all this experience that Gilmore approached his first opportunities to create records of his own vision.

What's particularly interesting about this early period is how his old-timey tenor and poetic lyrics (and those of Butch Hancock) fit atop fairly straight-ahead West Texas honky-tonk. The same elements would later serve more far-reaching musical experimentations, but on these fifteen tracks - fourteen anthologized from the two debut albums, one previously unreleased - Gilmore and his accompanists kick out some incredibly compelling two-steps. In addition to Gilmore and Hancock's tunes, covers of Mel Tillis' "Honky Tonk Song," Townes Van Zandt's "White Freight Liner Blues," and David Halley's "Rain Just Falls" are superb.

Gilmore die-hards will need the original pair of albums (plus this collection for the previously unissued "Ramblin' Man"). Those looking for some West Texas honky-tonk with lyrics that dig deeper than the typical tear-in-your-beer will be truly amazed by this unusual combination of swinging beats and cosmic-cowboy lyrics. Willie Nelson may still be the spiritual mayor of Austin, but Gilmore's clearly got an executive position in the administration.

Average customer rating: Amazing Songwriter and Unique Vocalist Why didn't I discover this before? jimmie dale gilmore's masterpiece. spinning with joy studio

Spinning Around the Sun Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Elektra / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: One Endless Night Come on Back After Awhile More a Legend Than a Band Don't Look for a Heartache ASIN: B000002HD7 Release Date: 1993-08-24

Tracks:

1. Where You Going
2. Santa Fe Thief
3. I Was The One
4. So I'll Run
5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
6. Mobile Line (France Blues)
7. Nothing Of The Kind
8. Just A Wave
9. Reunion
10. I'm Gonna Love You
11. Another Colorado
12. Thinking About You

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After years of making brilliantly eccentric albums with his scruffy Texas friends, Jimmie Dale Gilmore was invited to Nashville to record an album with mainstream country producer Emory Gordy Jr., George Jones, Patty Loveless, and some of country music's top session players. The result, Spinning Around the Sun, sounds very much like its predecessors, proving that Gilmore has far more to teach Nashville than it has to teach him. Gilmore, named after Jimmie Rodgers and a product of Buddy Holly's hometown of Lubbock, sings with a hillbilly purity that nails every note even as it retains a dirt farmer's dignity in the midst of a lover's last-chance confession. --Geoffrey Himes

Customer Reviews:

Amazing Songwriter and Unique Vocalist.......2007-07-05

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a talented songwriter and vocalist. His voice is so strong and unique. He can do things with his voice that you just don't hear from any other artist. It is amazing. I have several of his cds and this is my favorite of his work. I really like the song "Another Colorado" because that is the name of the river that runs through my hometown and I love it. Jimmie's song is called "Another Colorado" because one day when he was on the banks of the river he learned that the Colorado River running through Austin, Texas is a whole different river from that other Western Colorado River that so famously carved out the Grand Canyon.

Jimmie Dale's songwriting skills are impressive in the lyrics to songs like "Just a Wave." He has some newer work out Come on Back but this is the best. Some of his best music is with his band the Flatlanders Wheels of Fortune including his buddies from his hometown, Joe Ely Letter to Laredo and Butch Hancock War and Peace. The film Lubbock Lights, Limited Edition gives some great background to Jimmie Dale and the other flatlander's experience growing up in Lubbock where the people are the biggest things around.

Why didn't I discover this before?.......2007-05-17

The absolute best of Jimmie Dale as a solo artist. The cover songs sounded new and written for Jimmie Dale's unique voice. The original songs are soulful and memorable. My favorite states "Babe, you're just a wave, you're not the water".

jimmie dale gilmore's masterpiece........2007-04-05

i had a dream last night. i dreamed that i lived in a world where toby keith, vince gill and garth brooks were anonymous individuals, perhaps working in construction, and that the most lauded and famous country music stars were fellas named "billy joe shaver," "buddy miller," and "jimmie dale gilmore." what a great dream. and when i awoke i was sad, because i remembered how the world really was. i just wanted to go back to sleep and dream some more.

spinning with joy.......2007-03-08

This is flat-out the best Jimmie Dale Gilmore CD ever. Just listen to it once and you will want to listen again and again. And again.

studio.......2006-07-03

If you are like me, (and nobody is) you will want to have all of JDG's works, but I would get Fair and Square or One Endless Night before getting this one. Even when an actual artist does a "studio" album it has a feeling of being handcrafted. Maybe he should have culled I'm So Lonesome. . . But this is a guy who took Mack the Knife away from Bobby Darin and Louie Armstrong.

Average customer rating: Not his best album a country classic. A voice between Roy Orbison and Hank This one is a Classic Simply Great

After Awhile Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Nonesuch ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Spinning Around the Sun One Endless Night Come on Back Don't Look for a Heartache Braver Newer World ASIN: B000005IV7 Release Date: 1991-07-16

Tracks:

1. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
2. My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own
3. Treat Me Like Saturday Night
4. Chase The Wind
5. Go To Sleep Alone
6. After Awhile
7. Number 16
8. Don't Be A Stranger To Your Heart
9. Blue Moon Waltz
10. These Blues
11. Midnight Train
12. Story Of You

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore's tremulous, twangy whine is a beautiful thing, full of loneliness and humble awe. On After Awhile he uses it to fine advantage, on definitive versions of his standards, "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown" and "Treat Me Like a Saturday Night," as well as on a driving cover of Butch Hancock's "My Mind's Got a Mind of Its Own," which includes hot mandolin from Richard Bowden. After awhile, though, the stripped-down arrangements and melodies here can start to sound alike. Thankfully, the bluesy "Midnight Train," with snarling electric guitar from James Pennebaker, heats things back up and then some. --David Cantwell

Customer Reviews:

Not his best album.......2007-07-16

No one could like Jimmie Dale Gilmore more than I do, but this is not his best album.

I loved "These Blues", including touch of Jimmie Rodgers at the end. "Blue Moon Waltz" is nice. "Story of You" is O.K. Other than that this is probably Jimmie's weakest album, in my opinion.

a country classic........2007-04-05

i had a dream last night. i dreamed that i lived in a world where toby keith, vince gill and garth brooks were anonymous individuals, perhaps working in construction, and that the most lauded and famous country music stars were fellas named "billy joe shaver," "buddy miller," and "jimmie dale gilmore." what a great dream. and when i awoke i was sad, because i remembered how the world really was. i just wanted to go back to sleep and dream some more.

A voice between Roy Orbison and Hank.......2004-12-16

Several years ago my brother sent me this cd and at first I must admit I didn't get it. Gilmore's voice threw me but every once in a while I picked it up again and gradually (as Jimmie sings- sometimes we're a little slow in catchin on) the beauty of these songs just sank in and Gilmore's voice began to sound perfectly suited to them to my ears. Now years later I listen to this now and then and consider it one of my favorite country records. My brother passed on a few years ago and everytime I listen to Jimmie Dale Gilmore I think of him and thank him for introducing me to this great music.

This one is a Classic.......2004-06-24

I keep this CD in constant rotation and it never grows old. Its hard to pick a highlight when all the songs are so delightful, from "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown" all the way through "Story of You." As a singer and songwriter, Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a Texas treasure, and he really shines on this CD. Stephen Bruton's production is clean and tasty, and James Pennebaker's fiddle is magical. Get it, play it, love it, and buy copies for all your friends.

Simply Great.......2002-06-27

This one would get 5 stars just for the track "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown". A deceptively simple song that will haunt you once you've heard it. The rest of the recording does not dissapoint after this stellar lead track. Gilmore's unique voice and spare songwriting style make for a satisfying listen. Anyone who has an interest in Alt.Country or any other musical style that drifts outside the commercial margins would be well advised to check out anything by Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

Average customer rating: Probably his best album,....... 4 1/2 stars. Take a ride and listen! Doesn't Quite Make It Worth driving to New Jersey for!

One Endless Night Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Rounder / Umgd ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Rounder Records | Specialty Stores | Music Similar Items: Spinning Around the Sun Come on Back After Awhile Don't Look for a Heartache Braver Newer World ASIN: B00004LMNR Release Date: 2000-02-29

Tracks:

1. One Endless Night
2. Banks Of The Guadalupe
3. No Lonesome Tune
4. Goodbye Ole Missoula
5. Georgia Rose
6. Your Love Is My Rest
7. Blue Shadows
8. Defying Gravity
9. Ripple
10. Ramblin' Man
11. Darcy Farrow
12. Mack The Knife
13. Bonus Track 1

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His distinctive Texas vocal twang has always shone on ballads, and on the sublime One Endless Night, singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore sang some of his best yet. Whether performing soulful covers of fellow Lone Star talents or a country-noir version of "Mack the Knife," Gilmore continues to prove himself one of country music's most enduring artists. --Jason Verlinde

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Though often praised as a songwriter, Jimmie Dale Gilmore mostly considers himself a "song lover." Thus it should come as no surprise that 10 of the baker's dozen songs on One Endless Night are covers. Nor should it surprise anyone that Gilmore's distinctive plaintive twang so effectively conveys his passion for these songs. On his first record in nearly four years, Gilmore looks to his fellow contemplative Texans to provide much of the material here: songs by Townes Van Zandt, Walter Hyatt, and Willis Alan Ramsey join a pair from fellow Flatlander Butch Hancock. Add to that songs by "outsiders" like John Hiatt, Jesse Winchester, the Grateful Dead (a lovely reading of "Ripple"), and even Kurt Weill (a spooky reading of "Mack the Knife"), and you get a sense of who Gilmore is as an artist: entrenched in country music, he also has an open and curious mind, a wandering spirit, and an affection for timeless melodies. Boasting an assortment of guests, including coproducer Buddy Miller (another firmly rooted freethinker), Emmylou Harris, and Jim Lauderdale, One Endless Night is as vast and dusty, as soothing and warm as the high Texas plains. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

Probably his best album,..............2007-06-05

but I'm open for recommendations. Sometimes he reminds me of the awesome "Grateful Dead" when he sings "Ripple". Just like the Dead, he has a bit of country, a bit of blues, even some Zydeco sounds in the background in some songs. I've never understood why he isn't bigger than he is. He's so much better than so many of the country singers today. I've wondered if it's because he's protecting his own songs. That's a killer career-wise.

I'd love to have an album of Jimmie doing nothing but Jimmie Rodgers' (who he was named after) best songs. His "Standing on a Corner" is just awesome.

4 1/2 stars........2007-04-05

i had a dream last night. i dreamed that i lived in a world where toby keith, vince gill and garth brooks were anonymous individuals, perhaps working in construction, and that the most lauded and famous country music stars were fellas named "billy joe shaver," "buddy miller," and "jimmie dale gilmore." what a great dream. and when i awoke i was sad, because i remembered how the world really was. i just wanted to go back to sleep and dream some more.

Take a ride and listen!.......2006-10-06

Jimmie Dale's music is best listened to when you can hear the stories in the songs. Take a nice drive, crank up some quality stereo sound and enjoy this all way around. Not only is there storytelling in these selections, his voice is so unique, and the music is fantastic. I love all these songs.

The first time I ever heard of Jimmie Dale was back in the early 80's, when a video accompanied his song, "My Mind's Got a Mine of It's Own", which is NOT on this collection. I copied the video, but never pursued the singer further. He certainly surpasses the manufactured singers today and even back then when the pretty boys were the rage.

I ran across this at a garage sale and was happy to reintroduce myself to a wonderful singer, a voice of his own and a style that cannot be compared to anyone. The music is folksy-country. Whether he does covers or his own, listen to the sound of his voice. You won't recognize Bobby Darrin's "Mack the Knife" The title song One Endless Night is equally great. And one of my favorites is "Banks of Guadalupe"; I love the guitar rhythm and No Lonesome Tune. Every song is enjoyable with excellent background vocals! That's why you can pop this in and enjoy the ride! .......MzRizz

Doesn't Quite Make It.......2002-03-15

This CD is just good, but with all the great music in the world, I'm sorry I bought this one. I bought it with the other reviewers' statements that this was the return to the styles of After Awhile and Spinning Around the Sun, but though it is fortunately nothing like Braver New World, it's nowhere close to the quality of those first two. I love both the spare arrangement of After Awhile and the lush, drugged arrangements of Spinning, but One Endless Night fails to really distinguish itself from lots of other country/folk with solid, quality musicianship. Throughout my first listens to One Endless Night, I kept waiting for Gilmore's voice to push past its beautiful distinctiveness into the kind of elastic keenings and embraces it's capable of at its most powerful. I have come to love the darkened warmth of that voice that can suddenly whip you into a ghost world of rocks and standing demons, push you into harrowing areas of emotional discomfort and wells of trembling grief, only to set you back down home as it passes with an ironic smile. We usually come away from a listen to Gilmore a little wiser and happier, but this time it was just nice. Gilmore seems to be the kind of artist that's better when he's more selfish than what his seemingly genuine humility allowed him to be on this CD. He needs to take over, because he's a really abnormally great vocalist, there's a whole wilderness of love and canyons and loss in that voice, and something this tame was really disappointing.

By the way, I saw Gilmore live about five years ago with a then-19 year old guitarist named (?) Rhodes. That Rhodes kid was amazing. If anyone knows anything about what he's been doing and if he has any recordings available, I'd appreciate an email.

Worth driving to New Jersey for!.......2001-08-12

I got turned on to Jimmie Dale with his Spinning Around the Sun cd and proceeded to go out a get all of his solo recordings plus recordings with Butch Hancock and a few Joe Ely as well (all flatlanders). In my opinion, you can not go wrong with Jimmie Dale. His voice is unique and an acquired taste (just like Dylan's, once you like it, you end up loving it). This cd is standard fare Jimmie Dale, which like standard fare Van Morrison, is outstanding! More cover songs on this one than usual, but JDG's interpretations are top notch country/folk/americana/heartland songs. "Ripple" stands out sounding like the grateful dead on acoustic guitars (just like the GD's Reckoning cd)If you are a newcomer to JDG this is a great place to start. If you are a fan,like myself (who drove from southern Delaware to see him live at Appel Music Farm in NJ!) you will continue to be a fan who anticipates his next release.

Average customer rating: Jimmie Dale: the Real Deal

Fair and Square Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Hightone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: One Endless Night After Awhile Spinning Around the Sun Don't Look for a Heartache Braver Newer World ASIN: B0000005OE Release Date: 2000-03-01

Tracks:

1. White Freight Liner Blues
2. Honky Tonk Masquerade
3. Fair & Square
4. Don't Look For A Heartache
5. Trying To Get You
6. Singing The Blues
7. Just A Wave, Not The Water
8. All Grown Up
9. 99 Holes
10. Rain Just Falls

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Zen country singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore's spiritual perspective certainly owes more to Buddha than Moses, but his 1988 solo debut has something of an Old Testament story line. Gilmore partnered with fellow Texans/nascent country outcasts Joe Ely and Butch Hancock in the Flatlanders in the early 1970s, only to put aside music as a vocation when the group's sole eight-track (originally its only format) was stillborn. A decade and a half passed before the distinctive singer-songwriter recorded this unadulterated honky-tonk outing after finally coming down from the mountain (Colorado, actually) and reestablishing himself in Austin. Gilmore and old compadre Ely (who serves as producer) constructed a modest but rewarding 10-song set that provided a traditional-country oasis in a Nashville-slick wasteland. Townes Van Zandt, Ely, Hancock, and lesser-known Texas troubadour David Halley (who plays lead guitar) provide material, making Fair & Square something of a secure way station for left-of-center Lone Star songsmiths caught between the outlaws of the '70s and the alt-country insurgents of the '90s. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews:

Jimmie Dale: the Real Deal.......2000-03-18

Climb on the bus. Travel 1500 miles South to a small, dusty, border town. Find the roadhouse, and there you'll find Jimmie Dale. This is real, no bull heartfelt country, the kind you find in unexpected memories of women you knew and lost or roads you never should have travelled. Gilmore keeps you in that reverie with an authentic voice that you can't escape. Try this album and it'll grow on you. Trust me...you just might find yourself on that roadhouse bus on a search for the way things used to be...the genuine way Jimmie Dale sings.

Average customer rating: a great listen Channeling Hank....

Jimmie Dale Gilmore Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Hightone Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: After Awhile Fair and Square Come on Back One Endless Night Spinning Around the Sun ASIN: B0000005OS Release Date: 1993-03-11

Tracks:

1. Honky Tonk Song
2. The Doors Are Open Wide
3. See The Way
4. Beautiful Rose
5. Dallas
6. Up to You
7. Red Cheverolet
8. Deep Eddy Blues
9. That Hardwood Floor
10. When The Nights Are Cold

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For his second solo record, Jimmie Dale Gilmore brought steel guitarist, coproducer, and fellow Texan Lloyd Maines with him to Nashville in 1989, resulting in an album that fuses Gilmore's dreamy "cosmic cowboy" progressivism with good, old-fashioned honky-tonk (both heavy-grinding Nashville style and nimbly swinging Texas style) and a tinge of rockabilly. Gilmore revisits his own Flatlanders contribution "Dallas" and adds two other originals, two songs from buddy Butch Hancock, and two he cowrote with Hancock. In many ways, Jimmie Dale Gilmore builds important musical bridges, bringing together both the fans and the sounds of stone traditional country with those of rootsy, twangy 1980s rock. It also presages the "alternative country" movement, not so much sonically but psychologically, helping to redefine both audience and performers of soulful, honest country music. --Marc Greilsamer

Customer Reviews:

a great listen.......2003-05-21

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is an undiscovered treasure, reminiscent of
the great country/folk artists of the fifties. His "Hardwood
Floor" and "Doors are Open Wide" are wonderful. The accompanyment is perfect.

Channeling Hank...........2000-06-16

This'un is the purest honky tonky I've heard in 40 years or more. Listen to it and you can see the longnecks being served with those little pony beer glasses popular in all the better dives during the fifties. Listen to Gilmore and you know that Hank Williams is smiling down, if not channeling. Hot damn that boy can sing. Honky Tonk Song, Dallas, and Deep Eddy Blues (an Austin swimming hole) are all highpoints, but Red Chevrolet is my pick of all. Great instrumentation throughout. In the terms of the brokers, "buy and hold".

Average customer rating: None Better This is alt.country. This is the stuff!

Two Roads: Live in Australia Butch Hancock , and Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: Caroline ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music Alt Country & Americana | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Contemporary Folk | Folk | Styles | Music General | Folk | Styles | Music Contemporary Folk | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music General | Live Albums | Folk | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Country Folk | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Singer Songwriters | Folk | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: West Texas Waltzes & Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes Come on Back War and Peace Spinning Around the Sun More a Legend Than a Band ASIN: B000000HW9 Release Date: 1992-07-31

Tracks:

1. Hello Stranger
2. Ramblin Man
3. Her Lover Of The Hour
4. Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown
5. Two Roads
6. Wheels Of Fortune
7. One Road More
8. Blue Yodel #9
9. Down By The Banks Of The Guadalupe
10. Dallas
11. Already Gone
12. Special Treatment
13. Howlin At Midnight
14. Firewater (Seeks Its Own Level)
15. West Texas Waltz

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Singer-songwriters are loners, by and large, and few have enjoyed a close relationship of the sort that Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have forged over the years. Friends since their west Texas childhood, they first recorded together in 1972 as the Flatlanders, but it wasn't until this superb 1990 live album that they reunited for a full set of cosmic, twangy folk. Trading songs back and forth, supported only by their guitars and Hancock's harmonica, the duo revisit Flatlanders classics, tunes by Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family, Paul Kelly's "Special Treatment," and mostly a host of Hancock's best originals. Hancock has recorded frequently in such spontaneous settings, but not Gilmore: his singing truly shines, unfettered by superfluous backing and urged on by Hancock's easygoing harmonies. As single discs go, these 15 songs make for an ideal introduction to two singular voices. --Roy Kasten

Customer Reviews:

None Better.......2002-08-29

I just saw these guys last night (with Joe Ely) and there are none better. Jimmie Dale and Butch sing and play in absolute harmony. Buy this recording while you can. When it's gone-you lose.

This is alt.country. This is the stuff!.......2000-02-09

I became aware of Butch Hancock when he opened for Cowboy Junkies in '89.

I became aware of Jimmie Dale Gilmore when i bought the import of this album long before it was available on a US label.

Butch and Jimmie Dale are, individually, excellent songwriters and performers in a "high lonesome" style.

Together they are dynamite.

From the opening track, A.P. Carter's "Helo Stranger" on to the end, with Butch's truly surreal "West Texas Waltz" (with some of the most outrageous rhymes ever perpetrated with a straight face) there are no low points in this album, only, as Lucy van Pelt once put it "ups and upper ups".

Jimmie Dale's "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown" and "Dallas" are meditations on the two sides of the coin of the urban experience.

"Howlin' at Midnight" could be vintage Hank Sr. -- i understand it's by Lucinda Williams.

Butch's "Two Roads" and "Already Gone" illustrate what Joe Ely has described as Butch's tendency to write "seven minute novellas", but they're fine stuff, for all that -- especially "Gone" with its transition from a song about blighted love to its pointed commentary on the treatment of First American tribes.

"Firewater (Seeks Its Own Level)" always put me in mind of a friend who used to play bass in another band.

"Special Treatment" (with Paul Kelly) is a song about a real Australian Government program to take Aborigine infants to be raised in white homes to help the Abos "acculturate" faster... Sad and quiet, it's horrifying in its implications.

This is a Very Special Album -- two of the Austin/alt.country movement's leading lights, together, live, at their peak.

Average customer rating: ~ Great interpretations of great songs. DO NOT MISS! ~

Across The Great Divide: The Songs Of Jo Carol Pierce Various Artists , Joe Ely , and Jimmie Dale Gilmore Manufacturer: DejaDisc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Contemporary Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Styles | Music General | Contemporary Country | Country | Styles | Music Outlaw & Progressive Country | Country | Styles | Music Contemporary | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Singer-Songwriters | Pop | Styles | Music 1990s | By Decade | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Folk Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Country Rock | Rock | Styles | Music Roots Rock | Rock | Styles | Music 1990-1999 | Decades | Compilations | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Blues | Indie Music | Stores | Music Alt-Country & Americana | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Bad Girls Upset by the Truth Songs From Chippy (1994 Studio Cast) Silver City West ASIN: B000006LYD Release Date: 1994-04-19

Tracks:

1. Sacrificial Island Tombstone - Psychomotor
2. Queen Of Heaven - Joe Ely
3. Across The Great Divide - Kris McKay
4. My Boyfriend - Pork
5. Ruby - Loose Diamonds
6. Scratch Upon Her Windowpane - Darden Smith
7. Something More - Lords Of Love
8. Jim Henry Henley - Spot Removal
9. Reunion - Jimmie Dale Gilmore
10. Heaven And Hell (Their Exact Locations) - Michael Hall
11. Does God Have Us By The Twat Or What? - Girls In The Nose
12. You Bother Me - Wannabes
13. Buttons Of Your Skin - Lisa Mednick
14. Loose Diamond - David Halley, Rich & Kathy Brotherton
15. Borderline Tango - Shoulders
16. Secret Dan - The Namedroppers
17. Blue Norther - Gretchen Phillips & Kathy McCarty
18. I Blame God - Terry Allen
19. Apocalyptic Horses - Robert Jacks & Kim Longacre

Customer Reviews:

~ Great interpretations of great songs. DO NOT MISS! ~.......2004-11-16

For those of you who do not know the music of Jo Carol Pierce, this is one way of learning about a truly great-yet-apparently little-known songwriter. Personally, I prefer listening to Jo Carol perform her own material, but there are people in this world who simply cannot handle the "twang" of a good Texas accent. Oh, well. If you are one of these people, then "Across the Great Divide" is the way you get your recommended dose of JCP. The only people I've met who don't like the music (and writing) of Jo Carol seem to lack a characteristic that is commonly referred to as "soul". Or maybe they just can't handle music that dares to step outside of the hackneyed, commercial, ordinary, pablum-pretty...oh, but now I'm ranting. This is wonderful music, great writing, masterpiece stuff. Your a-r engineer friends might complain about the production on the CD. Hmmm. Just ignore the complaints, as people like this will turn a tone-deaf ear to JCP, anyway.

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6. Jumping From Six to Six
7. Just Another Day in Parodies
8. 25 Years
9. A Country Legacy: 1930-1939 [Box set] [Original recording remastered]
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