Spinning Around the Sun

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Spinning Around the Sun
Spinning Around the Sun.jpg
Studio album by
Released1993
Genre Country music
Length44:36
Label Elektra [1]
Producer Emory Gordy Jr. [2]
Jimmie Dale Gilmore chronology
"After Awhile"
(1991)
Spinning Around the Sun
(1993)
Braver Newer World
(1996)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svgStar empty.svg [3]
Robert Christgau A [4]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [5]
Spin Alternative Record Guide 9/10 [6]

Spinning Around the Sun is an album by country music singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore. [7] It was released in 1993 on Elektra Records, and was his second record for the label.

Contents

The album includes a duet with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, "Reunion."

Critical reception

In The Village Voice 's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for the year's best albums, Spinning Around the Sun finished at number 7. [8]

Robert Christgau gave the album an A grade, writing: "I doubt I'll hear a more gorgeous country record--maybe a more gorgeous record--anytime soon." [4] Mark Deming from AllMusic gave the record a 3.5-star rating, writing that "there are too many tunes that are beautiful but unremarkable, and beyond a near-definitive reworking of Butch Hancock's 'Just a Wave, Not the Water,' very little of this connects with the force of Gilmore's best work." [3] The Orlando Sentinel wrote that "Gilmore's synthesis of country, folk and rock 'n' roll is as effortless as ever, and his voice is its old sweet, nasal self." [1]

Track listing

  1. "Where You Going" (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, David Hammond) 4:21
  2. "Santa Fe Thief" (A. B. Strehli, Jr.) 5:00
  3. "I Was the One" (Hal Blair, Claude Demetrius, Bill Peppers, Aaron Schroeder) 3:15
  4. "So I'll Run" (Strehli) 3:50
  5. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" (Hank Williams) 3:38
  6. "Mobile Line" (Traditional) 3:43
  7. "Nothing of the Kind" (Butch Hancock) 3:19
  8. "Just a Wave, Not the Water" (Hancock) 4:02
  9. "Reunion" (Jo Carol Pierce, Harry Porter) 2:54
  10. "I'm Gonna Love You" (Gilmore) 3:46
  11. "Another Colorado" (Gilmore) 3:31
  12. "Thinking About You" (Gilmore) 3:17

Personnel

Production

Chart performance

Chart (1993)Peak
position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums62
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers27

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