One Endless Night is an album by the American musician Jimmie Dale Gilmore, released in 2000.[2][3] It peaked at No. 29 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.[4] Gilmore supported the album by touring with the Flatlanders.[5]
One Endless Night | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 2000 | |||
Genre | Country | |||
Label | Windcharger Music/Rounder[1] | |||
Producer | Buddy Miller, Jimmie Dale Gilmore | |||
Jimmie Dale Gilmore chronology | ||||
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Production
editThe album was coproduced by Buddy Miller.[6] It was recorded in Miller's Nashville house, using Pro Tools.[7] Gilmore wrote three of the album's songs.[8] "Banks of the Guadalupe" is a cover of the Butch Hancock song.[9] "Your Love Is My Rest" was written by John Hiatt.[10] "Defying Gravity" is a cover of the Jesse Winchester song; "No Lonesome Tune" is a cover of the Townes Van Zandt one.[11][12] Gilmore slowed the arrangement of "Mack the Knife".[13] Emmylou Harris and Victoria Williams were among the singers who provided backing vocals.[14] "DFW" is a bonus track.[15]
Critical reception
editReview scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [15] |
Robert Christgau | [16] |
Entertainment Weekly | A[17] |
The Gazette | [14] |
Lincoln Journal Star | [12] |
Los Angeles Daily News | [9] |
Los Angeles Times | [18] |
Orlando Sentinel | [11] |
USA Today | [8] |
Vancouver Sun | [1] |
The Los Angeles Daily News wrote that "most of the cuts ... wistfully evoke the longing for lasting love—a topic the artist's masticating, caramel-and-chewing-tobacco vocals are sublimely suited to."[9] The Los Angeles Times praised the "eerily loping rendition of 'Mack the Knife', as utterly unexpected as it is deliciously different from the Louis Armstrong/Bobby Darin swing approach."[18] USA Today opined that "Gilmore's deliberative renderings are as engrossing as they are plaintive."[8] Rolling Stone deemed the album "a first-rate Gilmore collection, full of enchanted cognition, major emotions and pure Texas dust."[19]
The Washington Post concluded that "Gilmore has chosen bohemian numbers with gentle, beguiling melodies and lyrics that meditate on their subjects without ever judging them."[5] The Chicago Tribune determined that "the West Texas legend brings a strange beauty to everything he sings, his voice an otherworldly warble that echoes the pathos of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, while at the same time floating dream-like above it all."[20] Entertainment Weekly stated that Gilmore's "ethereal, oscillating tenor evokes the barren beauty of West Texas."[17] The Guardian wrote that "his spare, sinewy voice resonates like a high wind on the prairie, and on this evidence Gilmore has never been in better shape as writer, musician and picker of material."[21]
Track listing
editNo. | Title | Length |
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1. | "One Endless Night" | |
2. | "Banks of the Guadalupe" | |
3. | "No Lonesome Tune" | |
4. | "Goodbye Old Missoula" | |
5. | "Georgia Rose" | |
6. | "Your Love Is My Rest" | |
7. | "Blue Shadows" | |
8. | "Defying Gravity" | |
9. | "Ripple" | |
10. | "Ramblin' Man" | |
11. | "Darcy Farrow" | |
12. | "Mack the Knife" | |
13. | "DFW" |
References
edit- ^ a b Pynn, Larry (25 Mar 2000). "Country". Vancouver Sun. p. E20.
- ^ Riemenschneider, Chris (20 Jan 2000). "Flatlanders Again". Austin American-Statesman. p. 18.
- ^ Patoski, Joe Nick (Feb 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore: One Endless Night". Texas Monthly. Vol. 28, no. 2. p. 30.
- ^ "Jimmie Dale Gilmore". Billboard. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ a b Himes, Geoffrey (3 Mar 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore 'One Endless Night'". The Washington Post. p. WW9.
- ^ Sullivan, Denise (2001). Rip It Up! Rock & Roll Rulebreakers. Backbeat Books. p. 84.
- ^ Morris, Chris (Feb 19, 2000). "Gilmore's busy with Windcharger solo set, Flatlanders reunion". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 8. pp. 19, 20.
- ^ a b c Mansfield, Brian (29 Feb 2000). "Country". USA Today. p. 6D.
- ^ a b c Strauss, Bob (25 Feb 2000). "Sound Check". Los Angeles Daily News. p. L26.
- ^ Guarino, Mark (3 Mar 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 'One Endless Night'". Time Out!. Daily Herald. Arlington Heights. p. 10.
- ^ a b Gettelman, Parry (10 Mar 2000). "Gilmore Is Great on 'One Endless Night'". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 10.
- ^ a b Moser, Daniel R. (17 Mar 2000). "Here's Hoping Gilmore's 'Night' Really Is Endless". Ground Zero. Lincoln Journal Star. p. 20.
- ^ Drennen, Eileen M. (23 Mar 2000). "Gilmore Makes 'Night' Glimmer". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. G6.
- ^ a b Regenstreif, Mike (2 Mar 2000). "Country". The Gazette. p. D13.
- ^ a b "One Endless Night Review by William Ruhlmann". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ "Jimmie Dale Gilmore". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
- ^ a b Nash, Alanna (February 28, 2000). "One Endless Night". Entertainment Weekly.
- ^ a b Lewis, Randy (27 Feb 2000). "Record Rack". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 74.
- ^ Hunter, James (Mar 2, 2000). "One Endless Night". Rolling Stone. No. 835. p. 99.
- ^ Kot, Greg (5 Mar 2000). "Recordings". Chicago Tribune. p. 7.16.
- ^ Sweeting, Adam (31 Mar 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore – One Endless Night". Friday. The Guardian. p. 19.