One Endless Night

One Endless Night
Studio album by
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Released2000
GenreCountry
LabelWindcharger Music/Rounder[1]
ProducerBuddy Miller, Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Jimmie Dale Gilmore chronology
Braver Newer World
(1996) 		One Endless Night
(2000) 		Don't Look for a Heartache
(2004)

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]

Production

The 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

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[15]
Robert Christgau(2-star Honorable Mention)(2-star Honorable Mention)[16]
Entertainment WeeklyA[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

No.TitleLength
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

  1. ^ a b Pynn, Larry (25 Mar 2000). "Country". Vancouver Sun. p. E20.
  2. ^ Riemenschneider, Chris (20 Jan 2000). "Flatlanders Again". Austin American-Statesman. p. 18.
  3. ^ Patoski, Joe Nick (Feb 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore: One Endless Night". Texas Monthly. Vol. 28, no. 2. p. 30.
  4. ^ "Jimmie Dale Gilmore". Billboard. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  5. ^ a b Himes, Geoffrey (3 Mar 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore 'One Endless Night'". The Washington Post. p. WW9.
  6. ^ Sullivan, Denise (2001). Rip It Up! Rock & Roll Rulebreakers. Backbeat Books. p. 84.
  7. ^ Morris, Chris (Feb 19, 2000). "Gilmore's busy with Windcharger solo set, Flatlanders reunion". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 8. pp. 19, 20.
  8. ^ a b c Mansfield, Brian (29 Feb 2000). "Country". USA Today. p. 6D.
  9. ^ a b c Strauss, Bob (25 Feb 2000). "Sound Check". Los Angeles Daily News. p. L26.
  10. ^ Guarino, Mark (3 Mar 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 'One Endless Night'". Time Out!. Daily Herald. Arlington Heights. p. 10.
  11. ^ a b Gettelman, Parry (10 Mar 2000). "Gilmore Is Great on 'One Endless Night'". Calendar. Orlando Sentinel. p. 10.
  12. ^ a b Moser, Daniel R. (17 Mar 2000). "Here's Hoping Gilmore's 'Night' Really Is Endless". Ground Zero. Lincoln Journal Star. p. 20.
  13. ^ Drennen, Eileen M. (23 Mar 2000). "Gilmore Makes 'Night' Glimmer". The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. p. G6.
  14. ^ a b Regenstreif, Mike (2 Mar 2000). "Country". The Gazette. p. D13.
  15. ^ a b "One Endless Night Review by William Ruhlmann". AllMusic. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  16. ^ "Jimmie Dale Gilmore". Robert Christgau. Retrieved 7 August 2023.
  17. ^ a b Nash, Alanna (February 28, 2000). "One Endless Night". Entertainment Weekly.
  18. ^ a b Lewis, Randy (27 Feb 2000). "Record Rack". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 74.
  19. ^ Hunter, James (Mar 2, 2000). "One Endless Night". Rolling Stone. No. 835. p. 99.
  20. ^ Kot, Greg (5 Mar 2000). "Recordings". Chicago Tribune. p. 7.16.
  21. ^ Sweeting, Adam (31 Mar 2000). "Jimmie Dale Gilmore – One Endless Night". Friday. The Guardian. p. 19.