Spinning Around the Sun

by Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Overview

Released in 1991, After Awhile stripped back the traditional country backings from Jimmie Dale Gilmore's music and let the subtle textures of his lyrics shine through, and the result was one of Gilmore's finest recordings. After the critical success of After Awhile, Emory Gordy, Jr., a top-shelf Nashville producer and session musician, was assigned to work on Gilmore's follow-up, Spinning Around the Sun, and his approach seemed to be to follow the subtle and scaled-back sound of After Awhile, but make it more polished and listener-friendly at the same time. If that seems a little confusing, Spinning Around the Sun for the most part sounds like a labor of love to honor Gilmore's work while making it more accessible (especially to the country marketplace). While the cover of "I Was the One" and "Reunion," a duet with Lucinda Williams, sound as if they were crafted with country radio in mind, most of the album mimics After Awhile's relaxed but thoughtful sound, though the surfaces shine with Music City perfection rather than the more intimate and soulful attack of Gilmore's Austin, TX, compatriots. Ultimately, the bigger problem is that the material on Spinning Around the Sun just isn't as interesting; Gilmore only penned four of the album's songs, and while the rest of the material is solid, there are too many tunes that are beautiful but unremarkable, and beyond a near-definitive reworking of Butch Hancock's "Just a Wave, Not the Water," very little of this connects with the force of Gilmore's best work. Spinning Around the Sun is an album of many beautiful moments that never quite coheres into a fully satisfying whole. ~ Mark Deming

Product Details

Release Date:	08/24/1993
Label:	Elektra
UPC:	0075596150224

Tracks

1. Where You Going
2. Santa Fe Thief
3. I Was the One
4. So I'll Run
5. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
6. Mobile Line (France Blues)
7. Nothing of the Kind
8. Just a Wave, Not the Water
9. Reunion
10. I'm Gonna Love You
11. Another Colorado
12. Thinking About You

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Jimmie Dale Gilmore   Primary Artist,Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic)
Lucinda Williams   Primary Artist,Guest Artist,Vocals
Stuart Duncan   Guest Artist,Fiddle,Mandolin
Joe Ely   Guest Artist,Vocals (Background)
Gary Nicholson   Guitar (Electric),Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar
Emory Gordy Jr.   Bass
Steve Gibson   Guitar (Electric)
Richard Bennett   Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic),Guitar (Electric)
Paul Franklin   Guitar (Steel)
Biff Watson   Guitar,Guitar (Acoustic)
Sonny Garrish   Guitar (Steel)
Chris Leuzinger   Guitar (Electric)
Kayton Roberts   Guitar (Steel)
Glen Duncan   Fiddle,Mandolin
Carmella Ramsey   Vocals (Background)
Glen D. Hardin   Piano,Keyboards
Harry Stinson   Drums,Vocals (Background)
Wes Starr   Drums
Steve Fishell   Guitar (Steel)
Pete Wasner   Keyboards
Al Perkins   Dobro
Chris Lauzinger   Guitar (Electric)
James Burton   Guitar (Electric)

Technical Credits

Emory Gordy Jr.   Producer
David Hammond   Composer
Jimmie Dale Gilmore   Composer
Traditional   Composer
Amy Hughes   Assistant Engineer
Steve Tillisch   Mixing
Bill Peppers   Composer
Aaron Schroeder   Composer
Butch Hancock   Composer
Hank Williams   Composer
Hal Blair   Composer
Jo Carol Pierce   Composer
Russ Martin   Engineer
Lucinda Williams   Performer
Terry Bates   Assistant Engineer
Frank Olinsky   Design,Art Direction
Al Strehli   Composer
David Bither   Executive Producer
Keith Carter   Photography
Marc Frigo   Assistant Engineer
Harry Porter   Composer
Claude Demetrius   Composer