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Artist: Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Label: Rounder / Umgd
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

32 reviews
Sales Rank: 83068

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 011661317321
EAN: 0011661317321
ASIN: B00004LMNR

Release Date: February 29, 2000
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Tracks:

•	One Endless Night - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gilmore, Jimmie Dal
•	Banks of the Guadalupe - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hancock, Butch
•	No Lonesome Tune - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, VanZandt, Townes
•	Goodbye Old Missoula - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Ramsey, Willis Alan
•	Georgia Rose - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hyatt, Walter
•	Your Love Is My Rest - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hiatt, John
•	Blue Shadows - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gilmore, Jimmie Dal
•	Defying Gravity - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Winchester, Jesse
•	Ripple - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Garcia, Jerry
•	Ramblin' Man - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Hancock, Butch
•	Farrow, Darcy - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Gillette, Steve
•	Mack the Knife - Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Weill, Kurt

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
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

Amazon.com
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: Read 27 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Darcy Farrow October 9, 2007
Did you like the feel of Wrecking Ball, Emmylou Harris' post-Country masterpiece? Buddy Miller switches to the producer's role on this great JDG album. On "Darcy Farrow" the spirit of Daniel Lanois (producer of Wrecking Ball) is recaptured. An emotional, spiritual, sound. The whole album is great, but on this track you Wrecking Ball junkies can get your fix. The drums. Not Brady Blade, but the same idea. A country anthem.

Thanks the the Bay Area's KFJC for putting it on the radio.

5 out of 5 stars

Probably his best album,....... June 5, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

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 out of 5 stars

4 1/2 stars. April 5, 2007
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.

5 out of 5 stars

Take a ride and listen! October 6, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

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

3 out of 5 stars

Doesn't Quite Make It March 14, 2002
8 out of 15 found this review helpful

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.