Jimmie Dale Gilmore
- HOMETOWN:
- Austin, TX
- MYSPACE:
- myspace.com/jimmiedalegilmore
- WEB SITE:
- jimmiegilmore.com
Along with distinguished ACL Festival alumni Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Terry Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore is one of the four dons of that mercurial band of West Texas musical eccentrics frequently referred to (reverently) as the Lubbock Mafia. After recording one destined-to-be-legendary-but-ignored-at-the-time album with Ely and Hancock as the Flatlanders, Gilmore disappeared from the music scene for several years before returning in the '80s to make a pair of straight-up honky-tonk albums. Then, in 1991, Gilmore recorded his masterpiece, the modern classic After Awhile. Subsequent albums like Spinning Around the Sun, Braver New World and One Endless Night (along with two records witha reunited Flatlanders) further afffirmed Gilmore's renown not only as a top-flight songwriter (Dallas, anyone) but as one of the most distinctive singers in Americana music, possessed of an other-worldly warble of a voice reminiscent of a cosmic collision of Hank Williams and Willie Nelson. Gilmore's most recent album, 2005's Come on Back, puts that instrument to excellent use interpreting his late father's favorite country songs.
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