After Awhile

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"After Awhile"
After Awhile.jpg
Studio album by
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
Released1991
Genre Country music
Length38:33
Label Elektra Nonesuch [1]
Producer Stephen Bruton [2]
Jimmie Dale Gilmore chronology
Jimmie Dale Gilmore
(1989)		"After Awhile"
(1991)		 Spinning Around the Sun
(1993)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [3]
Robert Christgau A− [4]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [5]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [6]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 7/10 [7]

"After Awhile" is the third album by country music singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore. [8] It was released in 1991 as his debut album for Elektra Nonesuch Records.

Contents

Critical reception

In The Village Voice 's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for the year's best albums, "After Awhile" placed at number 13. [9]

The Chicago Tribune's music critic Greg Kot hailed it as one of the year's best albums [1] and wrote in Trouser Press that "it wasn’t until "After Awhile" that Gilmore's unique style became fully apparent. For the first time, the breadth of his writing is on display...For all the high-minded aspirations in the music, Gilmore never turns into a cosmic cowboy; not for nothing is he fond of quoting Ezra Pound's maxim that 'The poem fails when it strays too far from the song and the song fails when it strays too far from the dance.' The music on "After Awhile" embodies that synergy between heart, intellect and groove." [10]

The New Rolling Stone Album Guide praised "After Awhile" for "vaulting [Gilmore] into the ranks of some of the Lone Star state's finest troubadours" while observing that the album "finds Gilmore liberated from the strictures of a dancehall stage, free to serve song over form in the spirit of a folk artist rather than an entertainer." [6]

Mark Deming from AllMusic gave the record a 4.5-star rating, calling it "a subtle, unforced masterpiece that captures Gilmore at the subtle peak of his abilities." [3]

Track listing

All songs written by Jimmie Dale Gilmore unless otherwise indicated.

  1. "Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown" (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, John Reed) 2:51
  2. "My Mind's Got A Mind Of Its Own" (Butch Hancock) 2:30
  3. "Treat Me Like A Saturday Night" 3:36
  4. "Chase The Wind" 3:07
  5. "Go To Sleep Alone" 3:06
  6. ""After Awhile"" 3:33
  7. "Number 16" 2:46
  8. "Don't Be A Stranger To Your Heart" (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Rick Smith, David Hammond) 3:47
  9. "Blue Moon Waltz" 2:52
  10. "These Blues" 2:19
  11. "Midnight Train" 4:46
  12. "Story Of You" 3:02

Personnel

Production

References

  1. 1 2 Kot, Greg (1 December 1991). "THE BEST ALBUMS OF `91". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  2. ↑ Verlinde, Jason (January 2009). "An Interview with Stephen Bruton". The Fretboard Journal.
  3. 1 2 "After Awhile - Jimmie Dale Gilmore" – via www.allmusic.com.
  4. ↑ "Robert Christgau: CG: Jimmie Dale Gilmore". www.robertchristgau.com.
  5. ↑ MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999.
  6. 1 2 The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 331.
  7. ↑ Spin Alternative Record Guide. Vintage Books. 1995. pp. 148–149.
  8. ↑ "The Sagebrush Poet : Jimmie Dale Gilmore's career hasn't followed a traditional path but his 'Zen country' music is drawing attention with a major-label debut album called 'Spinning Around the Sun'". Los Angeles Times. October 10, 1993.
  9. ↑ "The 1991 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll". The Village Voice . 3 March 1992. Archived from the original on 27 June 2002. Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  10. ↑ "Jimmie Dale Gilmore". trouserpress.com.
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