| One Endless Night | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 2000 | |||
| Genre | Country | |||
| Label | Windcharger Music/Rounder [1] | |||
| Producer | Buddy Miller, Jimmie Dale Gilmore | |||
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One Endless Night is an album by the American musician Jimmie Dale Gilmore, released in 2000. [2] [3] It peaked at No. 29 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart. [4] Gilmore supported the album by touring with the Flatlanders. [5]
The album was coproduced by Buddy Miller. [6] It was recorded in Miller's Nashville house, using Pro Tools. [7] Gilmore wrote three of the album's songs. [8] "Banks of the Guadalupe" is a cover of the Butch Hancock song. [9] "Your Love Is My Rest" was written by John Hiatt. [10] "Defying Gravity" is a cover of the Jesse Winchester song; "No Lonesome Tune" is a cover of the Townes Van Zandt one. [11] [12] Gilmore slowed the arrangement of "Mack the Knife". [13] Emmylou Harris and Victoria Williams were among the singers who provided backing vocals. [14] "DFW" is a bonus track. [15]
| Review scores | |
|---|---|
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [15] |
| Robert Christgau |  [16] |
| Entertainment Weekly | A [17] |
| The Gazette | [14] |
| Lincoln Journal Star | [12] |
| Los Angeles Daily News | [9] |
| Los Angeles Times | [18] |
| Orlando Sentinel | [11] |
| USA Today | [8] |
| Vancouver Sun | [1] |
The Los Angeles Daily News wrote that "most of the cuts ... wistfully evoke the longing for lasting love—a topic the artist's masticating, caramel-and-chewing-tobacco vocals are sublimely suited to." [9] The Los Angeles Times praised the "eerily loping rendition of 'Mack the Knife', as utterly unexpected as it is deliciously different from the Louis Armstrong/Bobby Darin swing approach." [18] USA Today opined that "Gilmore's deliberative renderings are as engrossing as they are plaintive." [8] Rolling Stone deemed the album "a first-rate Gilmore collection, full of enchanted cognition, major emotions and pure Texas dust." [19]
The Washington Post concluded that "Gilmore has chosen bohemian numbers with gentle, beguiling melodies and lyrics that meditate on their subjects without ever judging them." [5] The Chicago Tribune determined that "the West Texas legend brings a strange beauty to everything he sings, his voice an otherworldly warble that echoes the pathos of Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers, while at the same time floating dream-like above it all." [20] Entertainment Weekly stated that Gilmore's "ethereal, oscillating tenor evokes the barren beauty of West Texas." [17] The Guardian wrote that "his spare, sinewy voice resonates like a high wind on the prairie, and on this evidence Gilmore has never been in better shape as writer, musician and picker of material." [21]
| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "One Endless Night" | |
| 2. | "Banks of the Guadalupe" | |
| 3. | "No Lonesome Tune" | |
| 4. | "Goodbye Old Missoula" | |
| 5. | "Georgia Rose" | |
| 6. | "Your Love Is My Rest" | |
| 7. | "Blue Shadows" | |
| 8. | "Defying Gravity" | |
| 9. | "Ripple" | |
| 10. | "Ramblin' Man" | |
| 11. | "Darcy Farrow" | |
| 12. | "Mack the Knife" | |
| 13. | "DFW" |
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