| One Endless Night | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| Cover: | One Endless Night.jpg |
| Released: | 2000 |
| Genre: | Country |
| Label: | Windcharger Music/Rounder |
| Producer: | Buddy Miller, Jimmie Dale Gilmore |
| Prev Title: | Braver Newer World |
| Prev Year: | 1996 |
| Next Title: | Don't Look for a Heartache |
| Next Year: | 2004 |
One Endless Night is an album by the American musician Jimmie Dale Gilmore, released in 2000.[1] [2] It peaked at No. 29 on Billboards Top Heatseekers chart.[3] Gilmore supported the album by touring with the Flatlanders.[4]
The album was coproduced by Buddy Miller.[5] It was recorded in Miller's Nashville house, using Pro Tools.[6] Gilmore wrote three of the album's songs. "Banks of the Guadalupe" is a cover of the Butch Hancock song. "Your Love Is My Rest" was written by John Hiatt.[7] "Defying Gravity" is a cover of the Jesse Winchester song; "No Lonesome Tune" is a cover of the Townes Van Zandt one. Gilmore slowed the arrangement of "Mack the Knife".[8] Emmylou Harris and Victoria Williams were among the singers who provided backing vocals. "DFW" is a bonus track.
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." 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." USA Today opined that "Gilmore's deliberative renderings are as engrossing as they are plaintive." Rolling Stone deemed the album "a first-rate Gilmore collection, full of enchanted cognition, major emotions and pure Texas dust."[9]
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."[4] 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."[10] Entertainment Weekly stated that Gilmore's "ethereal, oscillating tenor evokes the barren beauty of West Texas." 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."[11]