Track Listing

1. White Freight Liner Blues
2. Honky Tonk Masquerade
3. Fair & Square
4. Don't Look for a Heartache
5. Trying to Get to You
6. Singing the Blues
7. Just a Wave, Not the Water
8. All Grown Up
9. 99 Holes
10. Rain Just Falls

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #158557 in Music
• Released on: 2000-03-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Amazon.com
Zen country singer Jimmie Dale Gilmore's spiritual perspective certainly owes more to Buddha than Moses, but his 1988 solo debut has something of an Old Testament story line. Gilmore partnered with fellow Texans/nascent country outcasts Joe Ely and Butch Hancock in the Flatlanders in the early 1970s, only to put aside music as a vocation when the group's sole eight-track (originally its only format) was stillborn. A decade and a half passed before the distinctive singer-songwriter recorded this unadulterated honky-tonk outing after finally coming down from the mountain (Colorado, actually) and reestablishing himself in Austin. Gilmore and old compadre Ely (who serves as producer) constructed a modest but rewarding 10-song set that provided a traditional-country oasis in a Nashville-slick wasteland. Townes Van Zandt, Ely, Hancock, and lesser-known Texas troubadour David Halley (who plays lead guitar) provide material, making Fair & Square something of a secure way station for left-of-center Lone Star songsmiths caught between the outlaws of the '70s and the alt-country insurgents of the '90s. --Steven Stolder

Customer Reviews

Jimmie Dale: the Real Deal
Climb on the bus. Travel 1500 miles South to a small, dusty, border town. Find the roadhouse, and there you'll find Jimmie Dale. This is real, no bull heartfelt country, the kind you find in unexpected memories of women you knew and lost or roads you never should have travelled. Gilmore keeps you in that reverie with an authentic voice that you can't escape. Try this album and it'll grow on you. Trust me...you just might find yourself on that roadhouse bus on a search for the way things used to be...the genuine way Jimmie Dale sings.