Hailed by the New York Times as “one of Texas’ best-kept secrets,” singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore has been active since the 1960s, a peer to Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, and Townes Van Zandt, among others. After Awhile features some of Gilmore’s most beloved songs, like “Treat Me Like a Saturday Night,” on which he “stamps himself as a great American songwriter” (Rolling Stone).
Hailed by the New York Times as “one of Texas’ best-kept secrets,” singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore has been active since the 1960s, a peer to Nanci Griffith, Lyle Lovett, and Townes Van Zandt, among others. After Awhile features some of Gilmore’s most beloved songs, like “Treat Me Like a Saturday Night,” on which he “stamps himself as a great American songwriter” (Rolling Stone).
PRODUCTION CREDITS
Produced by Stephen Bruton
Associate Producers: Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Dave McNair
Recorded and mixed February and March 1991 by Dave McNair at Austin Recording Studios, Austin, Texas
Tracks 1, 2 engineered by James Tuttle
Mastered by Robert C. Ludwig
All songs by Jimmie Dale Gilmore, except track 1 by Jimmie Dale Gilmore / John Reed, track 2 by Butch Hancock, track 8 by Jimmie Dale Gilmore / Rick Smith / David Hammond
Design by John William Costa
Cover photograph by Michael P. Smith
Executive Producer: David Bither
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MUSICIANS
Jimmie Dale Gilmore, vocals, acoustic guitar
Stephen Bruton, acoustic, electric, and slide guitars, mandolin, harmony vocal (8)
Wes Starr, drums, percussion
Keith Carper, upright bass, electric bass, fretless bass
James Pennebaker, electric guitar, fiddle, steel guitar, dobro
Ponty Bone, accordion (5)
Richard Bowden, mandolin (1), fiddle (2)
Bill Ginn, piano (6)
Paul Glasse, mandolin (2)
Butch Hancock, harmony vocal (2)
Tish Hinojosa, harmony vocal (5)
Teddy Roddy, harmonica (11)
Jesse Taylor, acoustic guitar (1, 2)
Steve Williams, dobro (2), acoustic guitar (4)
