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This was Jimmie Dale Gilmore's third solo album, released in 1991, just a few months after the Flatlanders had finally made it to CD with their ironically titled More A Legend Than A Band. Jimmie D was, of course, one of the mainstays of the Flatlanders with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock.
After Awhile has no musical saw to evoke that West Texas wind, as on Legend: for that we make do with Jimmie's distinctive, high lonesome tenor on a strong collection of songs. The album kicks off well with a fine version of his own, extremely catchy Tonight I Think I'm Gonna Go Downtown (which appears on Legend) with a nice acoustic feel, whilst Treat Me Like A Saturday Night features some great pedal steel from James Pennebaker. Butch Hancock's uptempo My Mind's Got A Mind OF Its Own moves things along, and I loved Don't Be A Stranger To Your Heart, with producer Steve Bruton's twangy boss guitar riffs interplaying with more great pedal steel. Another standout track is the bluesy Midnight Train, where a wailing harmonica and Steve's slide guitar combine to great effect, and Go To Sleep Alone has a Cajun feel. The last track, Story Of You, is a real beauty, with lovely piano, and James Pennebaker's fiddle rounding things off. The rest of the album is pretty good too.
Apart from Butch Hancock's song, all the others were written by Jimmie, with just 2 of them being co-writes. The musicianship throughout is first-rate, complementing Jimmie's laid-back singing style and matching the album's general tone and mood.
According to the notes in the accompanying booklet, Jimmie D says he grew up in a state of musical conflict, struggling to reconcile his early love of country music with his liking for pop and rock 'n' roll. He's always read widely, and in time found a line in a book by Ezra Pound that seemed to resolve the confusion for him: 'the poem fails when it strays too far from the song, and the song fails when it strays too far from the dance.'
Well, there ya go, Jimmie.
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