Search - Jimmie Dale Gilmore :: One Endless Night

More beauty from the cowboy mystic

R. Hutchinson | a world ruled by fossil fuels and fossil minds | 04/08/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"ONE ENDLESS NIGHT is another beautiful record from Jimmie Dale. Buddy Miller does a superb job of co-production. My favorite track is "Goodbye Old Missoula," which I heard on the radio while waking up one morning shortly after 6 AM before the album was released -- an incredible song. I have one reservation, though, about the return to a mainly traditional sound on this album, the same basic sound found on AFTER AWHILE (1991) and SPINNING AROUND THE SUN (1993).



It made me mad when I learned that in some quarters J.D.'s last album, BRAVER NEW WORLD (1996), had been savaged because it departed from "what a Jimmie Dale Gilmore album is supposed to sound like." BRAVER NEWER WORLD is a stunning album, incorporating Beatles-esque pop (see my review), and I personally like it better than this new one -- T-Bone Burnette's production is fantastic, and in retrospect it is the powerful completion of a '90s trilogy on Elektra following AFTER AWHILE and SPINNING AROUND THE SUN. I hope Jimmie Dale will return to a broader pallette of sounds in the future, and not be stifled by narrow-minded critics and fans."

A Revelation

Bruce Kendall | Southern Pines, NC | 07/18/2000

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I came across this album listening to samples at a local music store. As soon as I heard the first few chords and the raw, unaffected voice coming through the headphones I was hooked. Listening to this album is akin to reading Lonesome Dove for the first time. It is genuine and unadulterated, as Texas was before high rises and shaky banks. True Americana, like pure cajun, blues, gospel or Appalachian Spring. My only wish was that this guy would become as popular as all those Nashville, dime-a-dozen cut-outs that sell millions of albums year in and year out. Jimmie Dale Gilmour is a true troubador of sagebrush and melancholy. He's a poet in other words and can play guitar like an angel. Like another reviewer here, I just hope his other albums measure up to this one, because I've discovered a new favorite."

Hallelujah, Back to the Basics

Bruce Kendall | 03/02/2000

(4 out of 5 stars)

"A welcome return to form after the extremely overproduced and disappointing "Braver Newer World". Moving off of a major label seems to have freed JDG up to record the songs he loves to sing (many selections here will be very familiar to those who have seen him live over the last several years), and the results show him to his best advantage. This is an incredibly strong selection of songs played well and sung better (both by JDG and an alt-country fan's dream lineup of backup vocalists). There is plenty of the high lonesome mystic prairie folk cowboy stuff that JDG does so well on display here, but the most pleasant surprise is the expansion of his sound to incorporate a few songs that unequivocally and convincingly rock (including the sizzling Townes Van Zandt cover and a bonus track that's actually worth listening to). My only complaints are the intrusive drumming that mars a few cuts, and a slight letdown over "Your Love Is my Rest", one of my all-time favorite John Hiatt songs, which has been recast here as sort of a West-Texas power ballad. That being said, there is nothing that stops me from wholeheartedly recommending this album."