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Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin
Austin, Texas

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, Texas
Texas

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ore is a native of the Texas Panhandle
Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 List of Texas counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by the state of New Mexico to the west and the state of Oklahoma to the north and east....
, having been born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is an United States of America city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in the West Texas part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, it is the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, and the home of Texas Tech University....
. His earliest musical influence was Hank Williams and the honky tonk
Honky tonk

A honky tonk is a type of bar with musical entertainment that is common in the Southwestern United States and Southern United States United States....
 brand of country music that his father played. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other Texans such as Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
 and Lubbock native Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
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Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country
Country music

Country music is a blend of popular American music forms originally found in the Southern United States and the Appalachian Mountains. It has roots in Traditional music, Celtic music, gospel music, and old-time music and evolved rapidly in the 1920s....
 singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin
Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....
, Texas
Texas

Texas is a U.S. state located in the South Central United States, nicknamed the Lone Star State. Texas is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, spanning , and with a growing population of 24.3 million residents....
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Biography

Gilmore is a native of the Texas Panhandle
Texas Panhandle

The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 List of Texas counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by the state of New Mexico to the west and the state of Oklahoma to the north and east....
, having been born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock, Texas

Lubbock is an United States of America city in the U.S. state of Texas. Located in the West Texas part of the state, a region known historically as the Llano Estacado, it is the county seat of Lubbock County, Texas, and the home of Texas Tech University....
. His earliest musical influence was Hank Williams and the honky tonk
Honky tonk

A honky tonk is a type of bar with musical entertainment that is common in the Southwestern United States and Southern United States United States....
 brand of country music that his father played. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other Texans such as Roy Orbison
Roy Orbison

Roy Kelton Orbison was an influential Grammy Award-winning United States singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades....
, Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash

Johnny Cash was a Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter and one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century. Primarily a country music artist, his songs and sound spanned many other genres including rockabilly and rock and roll , as well as blues, folk music and Gospel music....
 and Lubbock native Buddy Holly
Buddy Holly

Charles Hardin Holley, known professionally as Buddy Holly was an American singer-songwriter and a pioneer of rock and roll. Although his success lasted only a year and a half before his The Day the Music Died, Holly is described by critic Bruce Eder as "the single most influential creative force in early rock and roll." His works and...
. He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by the likes of The Beatles
The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
 and Bob Dylan and the folk music
Folk music

Folk music can have a number of different meanings, including:* Traditional music: The original meaning of the term "folk music" was synonymous with the term "Traditional music", also often including World Music and Roots music; the term "Traditional music" was given its more specific meaning to distinguish it from the other definition...
 and blues
Blues

Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
 revival in that decade.

With Joe Ely
Joe Ely

Joe Ely is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, country music and rock and roll.He has had a genre-crossing career, performing with Bruce Springsteen, Los Super Seven, The Clancy Brothers and James McMurtry in addition to his early work with The Clash and more recent acoustic tours with Lyle Lovet...
 and Butch Hancock
Butch Hancock

Butch Hancock is a country music/folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed a solo career....
, Gilmore founded The Flatlanders
The Flatlanders

The Flatlanders are a country music from Lubbock, Texas founded by singers/songwriters/guitarists Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock....
. The group has been performing on and off since 1972. The band's first recording project, from the early 1970s, was barely distributed. It has since been acknowledged, through Rounder
Rounder Records

Rounder Records, originally of Cambridge, Massachusetts but now based in Burlington, Massachusetts, is an independent record label founded in 1970 in music by Ken Irwin, Bill Nowlin and Marian Leighton-Levy, while all three were still university students....
's 1991 reissue (More a Legend Than a Band), as a milestone of progressive, alternative country
Alternative country

Alternative country is a term used to describe a number of country music genre that tend to differ from Mainstream or pop music country music....
. The three friends continued to reunite for occasional Flatlanders performances, and in May 2002 released a long-awaited follow-up album, Now Again, on New West records.

After briefly attending Texas Tech University Gilmore spent much of the 1970s in an ashram
Ashram

An "ashram" in ancient India was a Hindu hermitage where sages lived in peace and tranquility amidst nature. Today, the term "ashram" is sometimes used to refer to an intentional community formed primarily for spiritual upliftment of its members, often headed by a religious leader or mysticism....
 in Denver, Colorado
Denver, Colorado

Denver is the Capital and the Colorado municipalities of the state of Colorado, in the United States. Denver is a consolidated city-county located in the South Platte River on the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains....
, studying metaphysics
Metaphysics

Metaphysics investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science. cosmology and ontology are traditional branches of metaphysics....
 with teenaged Indian guru Prem Rawat
Prem Rawat

Prem Pal Singh Rawat , also known as Maharaji teaches a Techniques of Knowledge. At the age of eight in India, he became the guru of three million people, and gained further prominence at thirteen when he traveled to the West to spread his message....
, also known as Maharaji. In the 1980s, he moved to Austin
Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat of Travis County, Texas. Situated in Central Texas and part of the Southwestern United States, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 16th-largest in the United States....
. His first solo album, Fair and Square, was released in 1988.

Gilmore's fans admire his fine tenor
Tenor

The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
 voice, which delivers expressive, pure, country singing.

Gilmore also had a small but memorable role in the 1998
1998 in film

The year 1998 in film involved some significant events....
 movie The Big Lebowski
The Big Lebowski

The Big Lebowski is a 1998 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film written and directed by Coen brothers. Jeff Bridges stars as Jeffrey Lebowski, an unemployed Los Angeles, California slacker and avid bowling, who refers to himself as "the Dude"....
 as a bowler named Smokey, an aging, emotionally "fragile" pacifist threatened with a pistol by the main character's right-wing sidekick (John Goodman
John Goodman

John Stephen Goodman is a Golden Globe- and Emmy-winning United States actor. He is known for his deep, booming voice, and his large and robust size....
). He has also been a guest on Jay Leno, David Letterman, A Prairie Home Companion, and Fresh Air
Fresh Air

Fresh Air is a radio talk show hosted by Terry Gross, broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States. In 2004, the show was syndicated to 445 stations and claimed 4.4 million listeners....
 with Terry Gross.

Gilmore's son, Colin Gilmore, is also a singer–songwriter based in Austin, Texas.

Gilmore's song "Braver Newer World" is featured in the 1995 Noah Baumbach film Kicking and Screaming. In 2005 Gilmore released Come on Back, an album of songs his father loved. Gilmore said of the album, "This new album is a compilation of recordings of some old songs that my dad loved. I love them too, and it is a project very dear to me."

Discography


Albums

Year Album Chart Positions Label
US Country US Heat
Top Heatseekers

Top Heatseekers is a weekly albums chart introduced by Billboard in 1993 whose purpose is to highlight sales by new and developing musical recording artists....
1988 Fair and Square   HighTone
1989 Jimmie Dale Gilmore  
1991 After Awhile   Elektra
1993 Spinning Around the Sun 62 27
1996 Braver Newer World  19
2000 One Endless Night  29 Rounder
2004 Don't Look for a Heartache   HighTone
2005 Come On Back 67  Rounder


Singles

Year Single US Country
Hot Country Songs

Hot Country Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States.This 60-position chart lists the most popular country music songs, calculated weekly mostly by airplay and occasionally commercial sales....
 Album
1988 "White Freight Liner Blues" 72 Fair and Square
1989 "Honky Tonk Song" 85 Jimmie Dale Gilmore


Further reading

  • In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998. ISBN 0-679-41567-X


  • Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music, Chris Oglesby, University of Texas Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-292-71419-9


See also

  • Music of Austin
    Music of Austin

    File:SRV.jpegThe music of Austin, Texas centers on 6th Street , Red River, and South Congress, where bars and clubs of every kind can be found....
  • Outlaw country
    Outlaw country

    Outlaw country was a significant trend in country music during the late 1960s and the 1970s , commonly referred to as The Outlaw Movement or simply Outlaw music....


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