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"I'm going out on the highway, listen to them big trucks whine..." Flatlander Jimmie Dale Gilmore sure knew how to do Townes right. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - White Freight Liner Blues
The music sometimes can sound quaint, by now the stuff of so many reproductions. Still, we're continually reminded how deeply these songs take us dark places. Jimmie Dale Gilmore is teaching philosophy at universities. There was always something in his music that suggested philosophy. The songs he wrote had conundrums like "You've Got to Go to Sleep Alone". Even in his voice, there's something that suggests the elemental nature of things. When he sings of rivers, mountains and the wind, they echo within his voice. His singing itself adds a level of meaning to the lyrics he sings. Heirloom [...]

Photographer Scott Dudelson sends along this gallery from his show-hopping adventures on Wednesday at SXSW .

Grass Doe (thx Old Chum ) Take it easy, all. Have a nice, warm Friday evening, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. Drink a lot of coffee and eat a big bowl of grits. Put on a puffy ol' coat and lay down in the snow. We'll see you again on the last day of this fine month. Until then.... MP3: Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Braver Newer World
A look into Jacques Audiard's 2009 film "A Prophet" including an examination of the film's use of pop music (Nas, Sigur Ros, Turner Cody & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, to be specific).

Jimmie Dale Gilmore : Ripple [ purchase ] If you have followed my posts both here and on Oliver di Place, you know that I am a great fan of the Grateful Dead. Why then am I posting a cover of Ripple? Simply because Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s version is stunning and will not be denied. Ripple is a Robert Hunter - Jerry Garcia collaboration, with Hunter responsible for the lyrics. The song comes from the early 70s, a period when many young people were engaged in spiritual searches, and [...]

03.04.2010 1. Un prophète A Scarface for the 21st century! Tahar Rahim (Malik) is superb! Niels Arestrup (Ceasar) as well! Spielberg is undoubtedly already at work on the American remake. Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Mack The Knife 2. Technology! I mean Avatar! (in Imax3D) [...]

I saw the acclaimed French prison flick A Prophet yesterday. As the end credits rolled my ears pricked up to the lovely steel guitar on Jimmie Dale Gilmore's terrific version of Mack the Knife . MP3: Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Mack the Knife The track is obviously available on A Prohpet's soundtrack album but it originaly appeared on Gilmore's album One Endless Night (2000). Enjoy. Related Links [...]

While reading the liner notes to Jimmie Dale Gilmore´s After Awhile (see post below) I happened upon the following Gilmore quote, describing his early, pre-Flatlanders days in Lubbock, Texas. "A number of factors and people influenced my writing. To begin with, there´s a guy named Terry Allen whom I met in highschool. He´s a couple of years older than me, and he´s a pianist, a songwriter, and also a very accomplished painter and sculptor. We became very good friends, and meeting someone who actually wrote songs turned on a light for me. I realized that [...]

"I´m glad to see you coming, I´m glad to see you go... She once told me I´m glad to see you coming, I'm glad to see you go..." Treat Me Like A Saturday Night was penned by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but his old Flatlanders pal Joe Ely recorded it first, for his excellent ´77 debut. For some reason, Gilmore waited until ´91 to tape a version for his fine After Awhile album. Both versions do it for me, although I have a slight preference for [...]

You ever watch football games on TV with the sound off? I've done that for decades, a habit picked up when I was a sportswriter long ago - the announcers really add very little to the game. And this is a great opportunity for multi-tasking: instead of listening to Al Michaels drone on, I listen to new albums. So here you go, some new ones for 2010 and a handful left over from late last year. And they're all pretty good: Vampire Weekend is just about the whitest band around, but [...]
Alt. country legends Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore bring their elegant, Lone Star State country songs to Atlanta
Alt. country legends Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore bring their elegant, Lone Star State country songs to Atlanta
Jacques Audiard's new movie Un Prophete is the anti-Shawshank, a brutal and eloquent prison saga about what you really learn behind bars. The soundtrack is amazing too. From it, here's Jimmie Dale Gilmore's serene stab at a standard.
The Flatlanders knew everything that was going to happen to them when they named their first album—available if at all in the U.S. only on 8-track— More A Legend Than A Band . Founders Joe Ely, Butch Hancock and Jimmie Dale Gilmore all won significant fame on their own but they regroup on rare occasions just to see what happens. Their newest Hills and Valleys is out now on New West. This interview by Chris Ziegler.
Playlist of music from episode, and placeholder for later commentary. One quick observation, hearing Alice Cooper's "School's Out," like a few episodes, reminded me once again of Dazed & Confused . Playlist: Friday Night Lights - Episode 3.09 1. "Dallas" - Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Tim confronts Billy about his truck. 2. "They Call Me Hopeless Destroyer" - Brimstone Howl - Practice 3. "School's Out" - Alice Cooper - Tami announces they're the game of the week [...]
Not only is it the playoffs, but this week's game on FNL is being televised nationally (on NBC, naturally,) so stakes are high. But you'd never know it in the episode ("Game of the Week") by the disappearing act of the father-son-father-by-proxy drama between the McCoys and Coach Taylor. I realize the budget is probably such that they had to pick and choose episodes to leave out some of the cast, but in a football-centric episode like this, it certainly seems weird. It's worth pointing out up front here that the [...]
I've never met Rickie Lee Jones , have never seen her in concert, don't recall having read an interview with her. But, I've heard the story that she walked offstage in a huff once, angry that something wasn't to her liking. The teller of the story mentioned that it happened at [gasp!] a charity concert! Have you ever...? Since that time, I'm held in my mind that Rickie Lee Jones is "difficult" and "full of herself". Interesting, isn't it, that I would make such a judgment based on the hearsay of someone else with no immediate experience [...]

Faithful readers of this blog will know all about my admiration for the Flatlanders´ More A Legend Than A Band by now. A country rock classic that spawned the solo careers of main members Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, it was recorded back in ´72, but for various reasons never got a proper release until Rounder records finally did it justice in ´91. In ´02, the Lubbock three finally decided to get together again, and that´s what we´re on about in this post, because the resulting [...]