Artists & Music Gìlmore's Busy With Wìndcharger Solo Set, Flatlanders Reunion BY CHRIS MORRIS Waksler adds, "I do think the don't think there's any better capa- on [the 1996 album] `Braver New LOS ANGELES -Texas singer/ pump is primed, and I think Lucin- bility for production anywhere, and World.' He said that he thought of songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore is da has shown a lot of retailers that it has to do with Buddy's expertise me as a singer who happened to beginning the millennium in auspi- they can sell this kind of record, as an engineer and a producer and write a few good songs. And that's cious and very active fashion. which may not be in one particular being so computer -literate." what I had always thought -I loved On Feb. 29, Rounder Records kind of pocket." Using a core band of Nashville him for verbalizing that. I think he will issue Gilmore's album "One Gilmore and his manager Mike players and Gilmore's longtime was saying that Bob Dylan was a Endless Night," the debut release Crowley started up Windcharger accompanist, guitarist Rob Gjerso, songwriter who sang a little bit, on his own Windcharger Records after the musician secured his re- Miller also enlisted some notewor- and that I was a singer who wrote a imprint. At the same time, Gilmore lease from Elektra Records, for thy guests, including Billboard 1999 little bit." is reuniting onstage with the Flat - whom he recorded three much - Century Award winner Harris, Waksler says that "One Endless landers, the historic '70s group that praised albums during the '90s. singer Jim Lauderdale, and the folk Night" will be worked at triple -A also included his old friends and They had been approached with trio Cry Cry Cry (Richard Shindell, and public radio but that no empha- collaborators Joe Ely and Butch offers from Rykodisc and Nonesuch GILMORE Lucy Kaplansky, and Dar Williams). sis track has been selected yet. Hancock. but ultimately decided to start While Gilmore is a well- estab- She says, "I'm actually starting Rounder director of national recording a self-financed release. he had met Miller years before. lished writer (his songs are pub- to go out to a lot of the [Universal sales and marketing Tracy Waksler Gilmore explains, "Mike and I "He lived next door to Butch lished by Jade EG Music [BMI]), he distribution] branches and key sees the same sales potential in just finally decided that it was Hancock, back in 1980 in Austin," wrote or co -wrote only three tracks retailers with Jimmie, so he can say Gilmore's album that was experi- worth the gamble, that I had Gilmore says with a laugh. "It's just on "One Endless Night." The rest hi to everybody, play a few songs .. enced by Lucinda Williams' 1998 enough of a presence, that my name very weird. Buddy's got Iike a pho- are covers of tunes by such song - We're starting off in Dallas and breakthrough, "Car Wheels On A was enough known, that it wasn't tographic memory, and he remem- smiths as Hancock, Townes Van Houston, and then we're going out Gravel Road." the same as a total beginner jump- bered it completely. He remem- Zandt, John Hiatt, Willis Alan to L.A. and Seattle and San Fran- "This record is going to do real- ing into the gigantic mosh pit." bered meeting me back then." Ramsey, Walter Hyatt, Jesse Win- cisco and Detroit, Minneapolis. ly well for Jimmie, in an era where Rounder ultimately entered the Sessions for "One Endless chester, and Jerry Garcia and We're just making the rounds. we've recently seen a Lucinda picture to handle distribution, mar- Night" were accomplished inex- Robert Hunter. The album also That's basically following the Flat - Williams record sell like it has, keting, and promotion for Wind - pensively. includes a version of Bertolt Brecht landers tour." unprecedented for her career," charger. "We didn't use one inch of tape in and Kurt Weill's "Mack The Knife." That tour includes a run of Feb- Waksler says. "It's a good time to Gilmore's quest for a producer recording this," Gilmore says. "It Gilmore explains modestly, "I ruary dates in Texas and March be coming with this record. That ended after he met Buddy Miller was all on Buddy's Macintosh, with never have regarded myself as pri- shows in such markets as Chicago; affords us a lot of opportunities for during a 1999 West Coast tour that Pro Tools. We could go into a living marily a songwriter. I've always Minneapolis; Bloomington, Ind.; a lot of retailers who now have a fan included Miller and his wife, Julie; room [and do it]. It was in thought of myself as an interpreter. Ann Arbor, Mich.; and New York. It base that's more accustomed to Iris DeMent; and Emmylou Harris. Nashville, but it wasn't a studio -it [Producer/musician] T Bone [Bur- brings together Gilmore, Ely, and buying this type of artist than they Gilmore was captivated by Miller's was Buddy's house, and we could nett] commented on that in an Hancock, who cut a lone album in may have been in the past." music; only later did he learn that have the quality of production. I interview that was done with him (Continued on page 20) Dne Endless Night finds Jimmie Dale Gilmore in the JIMMIE DALE GILMORE musical company of an all -star crew, including Emmylou Harris, Jim Lauderdale, Victoria Williams, *One Endless Night* Buddy Miller and Julie Miller with a program of sons by Willis Alan Ramsey, Butch Hancock, John Hiatt, Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter, among others. 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