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Jimmie Dale Gilmore

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This'un is the purest honky tonky I've heard in 40 years or more. Listen to it and you can see the longnecks being served with those little pony beer glasses popular in all the better dives during the fifties. Listen to Gilmore and you know that Hank Williams is smiling down, if not channeling. Hot damn that boy can sing. Honky Tonk Song, Dallas, and Deep Eddy Blues (an Austin swimming hole) are all highpoints, but Red Chevrolet is my pick of all. Great instrumentation throughout. In the terms of the brokers, "buy and hold".

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is an undiscovered treasure, reminiscent of
the great country/folk artists of the fifties. His "Hardwood
Floor" and "Doors are Open Wide" are wonderful. The accompanyment is perfect.

why Jimmie isn't a star in the country field. His music ranges from the rockin' rolling "Honky Tonk" song to the mournful "Deep Eddy Blues", to the Hank Thompson-like "That Hardwood Floor, to the very beautiful "Beautiful Rose", which should have been heard all over every country radio station in the country. Why wasn't it? He is a bit reminiscent of Hank Williams, and a whole lot better than many of the country "singers" who have blurted out their nasal twang to the tune of great wealth and stardom. There is no telling the taste of the American people, is there?