Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Spinning Around The Sun

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is not a prolific writer, so the initial challenge of his new album was finding songs that matched the adventurousness of his own compositions. He found these among the work of his songwriting peers in Austin, a town that has a long tradition of mixing traditional styles with distinctive verbal touches. Two of Spinning Around The Sun's best tunes are by Butch Hancock, who in the early '70s played in a band called the Flatlanders with Gilmore and Joe Ely. Hancock's Just a Wave is a highlight of Spinning Around the Sun, with lyrics that amount to a Zen revelation: 'But she knew more than I had taught her/When she said, 'Babe, you're just a wave, you're not the water.''

The styles that are mixed within Gilmore's repertoire are clearly defined by the inclusion of three of his old favorites: the bluegrass blues of Mobile Line (France Blues), the city-boy blues of Elvis Presley's I Was the One and the aching country lament of Hank Williams' I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry. That none of these versions qualify as definitive is not the point; they complement the other songs, pointing to the common veins that run through country, blues and rock & roll. ~ Full Review at Rolling Stone

Track Listing :

• Where You Going
• Santa Fe Thief
• I Was The One
• So I'll Run
• I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
• Mobile Line (France Blues)
• Nothing Of The Kind
• Just A Wave
• Reunion
• I'm Gonna Love You
• Another Colorado