Jimmie Dale Gilmore One Endless Night CD

The long-awaited follow-up to BRAVER NEWER WORLD stands in sharp contrast to that album's heavy-duty pop production. ONE ENDLESS NIGHT finds Gilmore returning to the simple, earthy country sound of his '80s Hightone releases, and with fine results. Fans of Gilmore's "cosmic cowboy" brand of songwriting might be disappointed that he penned only two songs, but the others he's chosen are of uniformly high quality, and they all receive that inimitable Gilmore touch. Fellow Flatlander Butch Hancock contributes a pair of gems, and Gilmore pays tribute to another fellow Texan, Townes Van Zandt, with a sprightly take on the latter's devotional ode "No Lonesome Tune."

Gilmore's ghostly warble sounds right at home delivering the otherworldly lyrics and country/folk melody of the Grateful Dead's classic "Ripple." Going further afield, Gilmore turns "Mack the Knife" into a bluesy desert ballad of death and wrongdoing. Buddy Miller's production keeps things appropriately uncluttered, adding just the right touch of twang and giving the phenomenon that is Jimmie Dale Gilmore's voice plenty of room to seep into the listener's soul.

Producers: Buddy Miller, Jimmie Dale Gilmore.

Personnel includes: Jimmie Dale Gilmore (vocals); Buddy Miller (vocals, acoustic, electric, electric 12-string & baritone guitars, mandoguitar); Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Victoria Williams, Calloway Sisters (vocals); Darrell Scott (acoustic, electric & steel guitars, bouzouki, dobro, mandolin); Rob Gjersoe (acoustic & electric guitars, dobro); Tammy Rogers (fiddle); Jim Hoke (autoharp); Phil Maderia (B-3 Hammond organ); Byron House (bass); Don Heffington (drums); Steve Hindalong (percussion).

Cry Cry Cry: Richard Shindell, Lucy Kaplansky, Dar Williams (vocals).

Rolling Stone (3/2/00, p.99) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...a first-rate Gilmore collection, full of enchanted cognition, major emotions and pure Texas dust."
Entertainment Weekly (3/3/00, p.75) - "...a stunning set of originals and covers....[He] makes music untouched by trends and suspended in time." - Rating: A
Q (6/00, pp.105-6) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...His choice of collaborators and writers reveal much....Gilmore's moving version of The Grateful Dead's 'Ripple' suggests that his stubbly barfly image conceals a man with eclectic taste..."
CMJ (3/13/00, p.3) - "...the voice of Gilmore rolls in on a gentle breeze, carrying with it haunting sorrow, organic soul and infinite beauty....makes a most heavenly introduction."
Mojo (Publisher) (6/00, p.109) - "...Stirring, dignified, country-folk....traditional sounding yet modern in outlook, modestly understated but impossible to ignore and frequently classics of the genre..."