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Chanteur Country US né le 6
Mai
1945 à Tulia Texas. Jimmie Dale Gilmore fait parti des
Flatlanders avec
Joe Ely.
With his
warm, warbling tenor voice and folksy, friendly approach to both his music and
his audiences, Jimmie Dale Gilmore is an easy guy to like. His music is a rich
blend of traditional country, folk, blues, and rock styles, and his lyrics
reflect both his philosophical interests and his inherent down-home nature.
Since moving to Austin, TX, and reviving his career in the 1980s, Gilmore has in
many ways come to represent the current Austin music scene -- its rootsy mix of
country, rock, and folk music -- the way
Willie Nelson once reigned as king of the town's cosmic cowboys in the
1970s.
Gilmore's roots go back to Tulia, a small West Texas town where his father
played lead guitar in a country band. When Gilmore was in grade school the
family moved to Lubbock, a Panhandle town known for being the starting point for
a surprising number of musicians (including
Buddy Holly,
Waylon Jennings,
Terry Allen, and Gilmore's onetime singing partners Butch Hancock and
Joe Ely). Growing up in Lubbock,
Gilmore met Hancock when they were both 12, and they remained friends and
frequent musical collaborators ever since. Gilmore later met Allen, who he says
inspired him to write his own songs. One of the first songs Gilmore wrote, in
fact -- when he was around 20 -- was "Treat Me Like a Saturday Night," which is
today one of his most enduring pieces. Later, another casual friend of
Gilmore's,
Ely, turned him on to the music of Townes Van Zandt, which Gilmore says was
a revelation for the way Van Zandt integrated the worlds of folk and country
music.
Gilmore and
Ely began playing music together around Lubbock as the T. Nickel House Band.
Later, after a brief stint in Austin, Gilmore hooked up again back in Lubbock
with
Ely and Hancock and formed
the Flatlanders, a now-legendary band that also included Steve Wesson, Tony
Pearson, and several peripheral members. The group recorded an album in
Nashville in 1972, but it was only ever released at the time on eight-track
tape. (Long a collector's item, it was finally re-released by Rounder Records in
1990 under the title More a Legend Than a Band). A mix of acoustic folk,
string-band country, and country blues, the album included another of Gilmore's
best-known songs, "Dallas," which was actually released as a promo single at the
time but generated little interest. By the end of the year the band had split
up.
Gilmore moved to Denver, playing music only as a hobby.
Ely, meanwhile, had won a record contract and had recorded some of Gilmore's
songs. In 1980, Gilmore moved back to Austin, where he began playing regular
gigs in local clubs. Finally, in 1988, Gilmore released his debut solo album,
Fair and Square, on HighTone,
Ely's label at the time. This and his 1989 follow-up, Jimmie Dale Gilmore,
featured songs by Gilmore as well as Hancock and
Ely played in a more straightforward honky tonk style than anything Gilmore
had done previously or since. These two albums gained Gilmore newfound acclaim
just as Austin itself was becoming a musical hot spot again. In 1990,
the Flatlanders album was re-released, and Virgin Australia put out Two
Roads, a duet album with Hancock that was recorded live during the pair's
Australian tour. Gilmore was soon signed to Elektra, which released After Awhile
in 1991 as part of the label's American Explorer series. The album retained a
country feeling but was less honky tonk in nature, and it attracted Gilmore even
more acclaim. Nashville showed little interest in Gilmore's brand of country
music, but he earned the praise of many critics. His next album, Spinning Around
the Sun, came out in 1993 and again featured a mix of contemporary and
traditional country-flavored songs and a fuller instrumental sound fronted by
Gilmore's rich, warm voice. In 1996 he released Braver Newer World, produced by
T-Bone Burnett, but the big news for Gilmore's fans came in 1998, when he
reunited with
Joe Ely and Butch Hancock to
record a new Flatlanders track for the soundtrack of the motion picture The
Horse Whisperer. While Gilmore stayed busy with his own music, releasing One
Endless Night in early 2000,
the Flatlanders began periodically touring together again, and they finally
got around to cutting a second album in 2002, Now Again, with a third set,
Wheels of Fortune, following in 2004. (That same year, tapes from an old
Flatlanders gig were given commercial release under the title Live '72.) Gilmore
returned to solo duties in 2005 with Come On Back, an album of classic honky
tonk and folk songs Jimmie Dale recorded to honor the passing of his father;
Joe Ely produced and played on the
project in 2011, Gilmore and his ad hoc band the Wronglers released the album Heirloom
Music, a collection of vintage folk and country tunes performed on antique
instruments. Gilmore kept a low profile for the next few years, rarely
performing outside the Southwest, but in 2017 he set out on a concert tour in
tandem with roots rock stalwart Dave Alvin, in which they swapped songs and
stories. The shows were successful enough that Gilmore and Alvin decided to cut
an album together, and Downey to Lubbock was released in June 2018.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmie_Dale_Gilmore
Talents : Vocals, Guitar, Songwriter
Style musical : Country Folk, Contemporary Country, Country Rock
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
Singles & EP
| 08/1988 | SP HIGHTONE 504 (US) | . | White Freight Liner Blues / Trying To Get To You |
| 05/1989 | SP HIGHTONE 510 (US) | . | Honky Tonk Song / ? |
| 03/1994 | CD SUB POP 248 (US) |
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Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown (MUDHONEY) / Blinding Sun / Buckskin Stallion Blues (Jimmie Dale GILMORE with MUDHONEY) / Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown / Blinding Sun (MUDHONEY) |
| 2006 | CD Rhino ? (US) |
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HIFIVE - Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown / My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own / Braver Newer World / Reunion / Black Snake Moan |
Albums
| 1988 | LP 12" HIGHTONE 8011 (US) |
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FAIR AND SQUARE - White Freight Liner Blues / Honky Tonk Masquerade / Fair And Square / Don't Look For A Heartache / Trying To Get To You / Singing The Blues / Just A Wave Not A Water / All Grown Up / 99 Holes / Rain Just Falls |
| 1989 | LP 12" HIGHTONE 8018 (US) |
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JIMMIE DALE GILMORE - Honky Tonk Song / Doors Are Open Wide / See The Way / Beautiful Rose / Dallas / Up To You / Red Chevrolet / Deep Eddy Blues / That Hardwood Floor / Where The Nights Are Cold |
| 1990 | CD CAROLINE 2036 (US) |
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TWO ROADS LIVE IN AUSTRALIA - BUTCH HANCOCK - JIMMIE DALE GILMORE - Hello Stranger / Ramblin' Man / Her Lover Of The Hour / Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown / Two Roads / Wheels Of Fortune / One Road More / Blue Yodel No 9 / Down By The Banks Of The Guadelupe / Dallas / Already Gone / Special Treatment / Howlin' At Midnight / Firewater (Seeks Its Own Level) / West Texas Waltz |
| 07/1991 | CD ELEKTRA 61148 (US) |
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AFTER AWHILE - Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown / My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own / Treat Me Like A Saturday Night / Chase The Wind / Go To Sleep Alone / After Awhile / Number 16 / Don't Be A Stranger To Your Heart / Blue Moon Waltz / These Blues / Midnight Train / Story Of You |
| 08/1993 | CD ELEKTRA 61502 (US) |
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SPINNING AROUND THE SUN - Where You Going / Santa Fe Thief / I Was The One / So I'll Run / I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry / Mobile Line (France Blues) / Nothing Of The Kind / Just A Wave / Reunion / I'm Gonna Love You / Another Colorado / Thinking About You |
| 07/1995 | CD SUN 7011 (US) |
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UNPLUGGED - Dallas / Waiting For A Train / You've Never Seen Me Cry / She Had Everything / Rose From The Mountain / Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown / Jole Blon / One Day At A Time / Bhagavan Decreed / Heart You Left Behind / Keeper Of The Mountain / Hello Stranger |
| 06/1996 | CD ELEKTRA 61836 (US) |
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BRAVER NEWER WORLD - Braver Newer World / Come Fly Away / Borderland / Headed For A Fall / Long Long Time / Sally / There She Goes / Where Is Love Now / Black Snake Moan / Because Of The Wind / Outside The Lines |
| 02/2000 | CD ROUNDER 3173 (US) |
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ONE ENDLESS NIGHT - One Endless Night / Banks Of The Guadalupe / No Lonesome Tune / Goodbye Old Missoula / Georgia Rose / Your Love Is My Rest / Blue Shadows / Defying Gravity / Ripple / Ramblin' Man / Darcy Farrow / Mack The Knife / Untitled Hidden Track |
| 02/2004 | CD HIGHTONE 8166 (US) |
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DON'T LOOK FOR A HEARTACHE - Dallas / Fair And Square / Deep Eddy Blues / Don't Look For A Heartache / That Hardwood Floor / Just A Wave Not The Water / Honky Tonk Song / See The Way / White Freight Liner Blues / Beautiful Rose / Ramblin' Man / Rain Just Falls / Red Chevrolet / Honky Tonk Masquerade / When The Nights Are Cold |
| 08/2005 | CD ROUNDER 3193 (US) |
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COME ON BACK - Pick Me Up On Your Way Down / Saginaw, Michigan / Standin' On The Corner (Blue Yodel No. 9) / Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes / Four Walls / I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive / Walking The Floor Over You / I'm Movin' On / Don't Worry 'bout Me / Train Of Love / Jimmie Brown The Newsboy / Gotta Travel On / Peace In The Valley |
| 01/2011 | CD Neanderthal Noise NR 001 (US) |
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Heirloom Music - THE WRONGLERS WITH JIMMIE DALE GILMORE - Time Changes Everything / Deep Ellum Blues / I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes / Way Downtown / Leavin' Home / Foggy Mountain Top / Uncle Pen / I Wonder Where You Are Tonight / Columbus Stockade Blues / In The Pines / Footprints In The Snow / Brown's Ferry Blues / If I Should Wander Back / Big Rock Candy Mountain |
| 06/2012 | CD Floating World 7261472 (UK) |
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Fair & Square / Jimmie Dale Gilmore - White Freight Liner Blues / Honky Tonk Masquerade / Fair & Square / Don't Look For A Heartache / Trying To Get You / Singing The Blues / Just A Wave, Not The Water / All Grown Up / 99 Holes / Rain Just Falls / Honky Tonk Song / The Doors Are Wide Open / See The Way / Beautiful Rose / Dallas / Up To You / Red Chevrolet / Deep Eddy Blues / That Hardwood Floor / When The Nights Are Cold |
| 06/2018 | CD Yep Roc YEP 2587 (US) |
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Downey to Lubbock - Dave Alvin / Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Downey To Lubbock / Silverlake / Stealin' Stealin' / July, You're A Woman / Buddy Brown's Blues / The Gardens / Get Together / K.C. Moan / Lawdy Miss Clawdy / Billy The Kid And Geronimo / Deportee - Plane Wreck At Los Gatos / Walk On |
| 06/2024 | CD Yep Roc YEP-3077 (US) |
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Texicali - Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Borderland / Southwest Chief / Broke Down Engine / Trying To Be Free / Blind Owl / Death Of The Last Stripper / Roll Around / Betty And Dupree / Why I'm Walking / Down The 285 / We're Still Here |
| 11/2024 | CD Omnivore OVCD-567 (US) |
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All American Music - Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders - Dallas / The Heart You Left Behind / She Had Everything / Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown / Waiting For A Train / Rose From The Mountain / You’ve Never Seen Me Cry / Jole Blon / Bhagavan Decreed / Keeper Of The Mountain / Hello Stranger / Down In My Hometown / Bonus Tracks : One Day At A Time / Stars In My Life / Not Long Ago / I Know You / One Road More / Dallas (alternate) |
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