Wed May 20 '09 10:44 am
Follow Jimmie Dale Gilmore on Twitter
>>
JimmieDale Gilmore
“I never fell into any of the categories…
I just love what I love and I’ve never discarded anything I loved in favor of something new. I sure didn't toss out my Lefty Frizzell records when I discovered the Beatles.”
Five years is a lot of time. A lot of time to think about what was lost and what remains. Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s Dad, Brian Gilmore, died 5 years ago from ALS, the cruel disease that killed Lou Gehrig. Brian Gilmore was not a church-going man, nor was he a singer. Most of his life he was a poor man who listened to the radio at all hours and played guitar—specifically a blue, solid-body Fender electric guitar, perhaps the first in west Texas—at dances and picnics. The elder Gilmore worshipped singers, including Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, and named his son for the Singing Brakeman, Jimmie Rodgers. As a tribute to his father, Jimmie Dale Gilmore has recorded 13 of...
Fri Oct 8 '10 (8:00PM) Stubb's: Outdoors Austin, TX
