One Endless Night

1	One Endless Night 3:49
2	Banks of the Guadalupe 3:01
3	No Lonesome Tune 3:07
4	Goodbye Old Missoula 5:22
5	Georgia Rose 4:01
6	Your Love Is My Rest 4:09
7	Blue Shadows 3:45
8	Defying Gravity 3:42
9	Ripple 4:50
10	Ramblin' Man 3:35
11	Farrow, Darcy 4:46
12	Mack the Knife 6:29
13	[Untitled Track] 2:56

Barnes & Noble

His new album the first, in four years, is another stirring personal statement from Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but this time, the enigmatic Texan makes others' words his own and invests each lyric with a soul-shaking immediacy. John Hiatt, Townes Van Zandt, Butch Hancock, and even Kurt Weill are some of the first-rate songwriters in whom Gilmore finds his muse on ONE ENDLESS NIGHT. Gilmore's spectral croon also enlivens two songs he cowrote, the haunting title track and "Blue Shadows," an atmospheric Orbison-esque lover's lament written with the formidable Hal Ketchum. Regardless of the material's origin, Gilmore's sixth solo album is a further journey into the unsettled worldview he has been explicating since first we heard him on the Flatlanders' 1972 masterpiece, MORE A LEGEND THAN A BAND. Here the songs speak of spiritual dislocation, an ongoing quest for love and faith, and an understanding of nature's impact on the human condition. Come with an open heart -- there's nothing quite like a ride with Jimmie Dale Gilmore. David McGee

All Music Guide

After two critically acclaimed albums on Hightone Records in the 1980s, Jimmie Dale Gilmore moved up to major label Elektra in the '90s. But the kudos did not translate into sales -- only one of his three Elektra albums scraped into the bottom reaches of the country charts -- and by the turn of the century he was back on an independent: the folkie label Rounder (distributing his own Windcharger imprint). Three and a half years separated Braver New World, the last Elektra album, from One Endless Night, his Rounder debut, but Gilmore apparently hadn't spent much time writing in the interim. Of the 12 listed songs (there was also a bonus track, the rockabilly "DFW," referring to Fort Worth and Dallas), only two are co-written by the singer. One Endless Night is a compendium of Texas songwriting, including the work of Gilmore cronies and mentors Butch Hancock, Townes Van Zandt, Willis Alan Ramsey, and Walter Hyatt, as well as such familiar names as John Hiatt, Jesse Winchester, Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, and Steve Gillette. Though Gilmore had always mixed his own compositions with covers, this album presents him as an interpretive singer. William Ruhlmann