Jimmie Dale Gilmore

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Start with After Awhile (1991) album, His acclaimed Elektra/Nonesuch solo album

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Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a Texas singer-songwriter, born in Amarillo and raised in Lubbock, known for a high, keening voice and a fusion of traditional honky-tonk with lyrics colored by Eastern mysticism and philosophy. In 1972 he co-founded The Flatlanders with Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, a group later credited as fathers of the alt-country movement. His solo albums, including 1991's After Awhile, earned three Grammy nominations, and Rolling Stone named him Country Artist of the Year three years running

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