Welcome to the Sunday
Music feature on Robert Frost’s Banjo. Today we continue our July
appreciation of Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
So far we’ve featured
performances that highlight Gilmore’s strengths as a ballad singer, & those
strengths are considerable. But Gilmore has always had an appreciation for
honky tonk country music, & both his own compositions & songs he’s
covered reflect that. Here he is fronting the Flatlanders band in
full honky tonk incarnation; the Flatlanders are of course Gilmore, Butch
Hancock, & Joe Ely (& various friends over the years). As one pressing
of their original recordings pointed out in its title, the Flatlanders are in many
ways “More a Legend than a Band”, as all
three founders have gone on to successful solo careers & collaborations
with other musicians. But fortunately for us, the Flatlanders also still
perform together with both new & old material.
Hope you enjoy the music!
In other news, I’m hoping to get the blog back up to something resembling a
normal schedule in the next week.
Image links to its source
on Wiki Commons:
Dust over Lubbock, Texas.
Taken from the sixth floor of the Biology building at Texas Tech University, 21
March 2013. Photo by Fredlyfish4,
who makes it available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0International license.
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