Jimmie Dale Gilmore
(born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.
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Biography
Gilmore is a native of the
Texas Panhandle, having been born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in
Lubbock, Texas. His earliest musical influence was
Hank Williams and the
honky tonk 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 and Lubbock native
Buddy Holly, as well as to
Johnny Cash. He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by the likes of
The Beatles and
Bob Dylan and the
folk music and
blues revival in that decade.
With
Joe Ely and
Butch Hancock, Gilmore founded
The Flatlanders. 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's 1991 reissue (
More a Legend Than a Band
), as a milestone of progressive,
alternative country. 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 in
Denver, Colorado, studying
metaphysics with teenaged Indian guru
Prem Rawat, also known as Maharaji. In the 1980s, he moved to
Austin. His first solo album,
Fair and Square
, was released in 1988.
Gilmore's fans admire his fine
tenor voice, which delivers expressive, pure, country singing.
Gilmore also had a small but memorable role in the
1998 movie
The Big Lebowski
as a bowler named Smokey, an aging, emotionally "fragile" pacifist threatened with a pistol by the main character's right-wing sidekick (
John Goodman). He has also been a guest on Jay Leno, David Letterman,
A Prairie Home Companion
, and
Fresh Air 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
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| US Country
| US Heat
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| 1988
| Fair and Square
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| HighTone
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| 1989
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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| 1991
| After Awhile
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| Elektra
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| 1993
| Spinning Around the Sun
| 62
| 27
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| 1996
| Braver Newer World
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| 19
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| 2000
| One Endless Night
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| 29
| Rounder
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| 2004
| Don't Look for a Heartache
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| HighTone
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| 2005
| Come On Back
| 67
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| Rounder
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Singles
| Year
| Single
| US Country
| Album
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| 1988
| "White Freight Liner Blues"
| 72
| Fair and Square
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| 1989
| "Honky Tonk Song"
| 85
| Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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