All American Music (Remastered) Jimmie Dale Gilmore & The Flatlanders

• 1 Dallas (Remastered 2024) 02:50
• 2 The Heart You Left Behind (Remastered 2024) 02:20
• 3 She Had Everything (Remastered 2024) 02:09
• 4 Tonight I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown (Remastered 2024) 02:44
• 5 Waiting For A Train (Remastered 2024) 02:33
• 6 Rose From The Mountain (Remastered 2024) 02:02
• 7 You’ve Never Seen Me Cry (Remastered 2024) 02:12
• 8 Jole Blon (Remastered 2024) 03:27
• 9 Bhagavan Decreed (Remastered 2024) 02:47
• 10 Keeper Of The Mountain (Remastered 2024) 02:44
• 11 Hello Stranger (Remastered 2024) 03:14
• 12 Down In My Hometown (Remastered 2024) 02:45
• 13 One Day At A Time (Remastered 2024) 03:45
• 14 Stars In My Life (Remastered 2024) 03:03
• 15 Not Long Ago (Remastered 2024) 02:20
• 16 I Know You (Remastered 2024) 02:48
• 17 One Road More (Remastered 2024) 02:27
• 18 Dallas (Alternate / Remastered 2024) 02:46
• Total Runtime 48:56

Info for All American Music (Remastered)

Newly remastered! The complete, known recordings from Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Joe Ely, and Butch Hancock.

Reflecting on The Flatlanders in 1990, Jimmy Dale Gilmore said, “The band probably has a higher reputation now than it ever did. Every time Butch Hancock and Joe Ely and I go out on the road, people want to know about The Flatlanders. We always say it was more a legend than a band.” And against all odds, the legend has grown. –Colin Escott You know how it is when you can’t stop talking up a record. Someone will say, “Okay, but who do they sound like?” Or, “Let’s go see them.” Flatlanders fandom hits a wall right there. By the time the first compilation of Flatlanders' work appeared in England in 1980, they'd been apart for seven years, and another ten before their music was available in the US. Sort of… Recorded in 1972 and scheduled for release the following year, All American Music was put on hold and went unissued, save for a few copies that were released on 8-Track. It took a 1980 UK compilation to collect all of the known Flatlanders material, with a now out-of-print German collection unearthing one more.

Now, Omnivore Recordings brings all known Flatlanders tracks back as a remastered edition. "ll American Music" features 18 tracks, newly remastered by multiple Grammy-winner Michael Graves, with packaging featuring liner notes from author and Grammy-winner Colin Escott, helmed by Grammy-winner Cheryl Pawelski. As Escott says in his notes – "More than a half-century later, The Flatlander's' original music still sounds fresh. It was truly a sound like no other. It's a stretch to call an artist 'prophetic' if no one heard them, but in some ways The Flatlanders foretold the grab-all that became Americana Music."

Highlights – “Dallas,” “The Heart You Left Behind,” “She Had Everything,” “Tonight, I Think I’m Gonna Go Downtown,” “Keeper of the Mountain,” “Stars In My Life,” “Not Long Ago” & “One Road More.”

Jimmy Dale And The Flatlanders:
Sylvester Rice, double bass
Steve Wesson, autoharp, saw
Tommy Hancock, fiddle
Tony Pearson, mandolin, vocal harmonies

Digitally remastered

Jimmy Dale And The Flatlanders
The fact that Texas music titans Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock - on their first go-round as The Flatlanders in 1972 - were completely rejected by the country music establishment is surprising in retrospect but, ultimately, poetic.

That each went on to have formidable solo careers is a testament to their talent and determination. Add to this their diverse yet complimentary styles - Joe the street-wise rocker, Jimmie Dale the mystic with the classic country voice and Butch the cerebral folk singer - and you've got a story of one of the most extraordinary kinships in American musical history.

It took these Flatlanders a mere three decades to release the sequel to their legendary debut. So the swift arrival of the group's latest New West album Wheels of Fortune - which comes hard on the heels of 2002's widely acclaimed Now Again - is a delightful and very welcome surprise.

The fourteen songs that make up Wheels Of Fortune are absolute wonders of songcraft, sung by three of the most authentic voices in music today.Joe, Jimmie and Butch initially reunited as The Flatlanders in 1998 to do a one-off recording, at the behest of Robert Redford's people, for the soundtrack of The Horse Whisperer.

It was so much fun, the trio regrouped and cut an entire album. The result, Now Again, was unanimously received as a triumph. Mojo magazine dubbed them a "country Beatles." Rolling Stone gave it 3 and 1/2 stars.

The Washington Post said, "Given the jaw-dropping quality of the disc, three decades almost seems a reasonable wait." Billboard raved, "An event record that lives up to all expectations." Now Again spent 17 weeks at #1 on the Americana charts and 21 weeks on the Billboard Country charts.

It was only a matter of weeks after the band had completed an 80-date U.S. and European tour when they re-entered the studio. "Once you get somebody on stage, it's kind of hard to get 'em off," Hancock says with a laugh.

"Once we got a roll going, it felt good to keep working on something.""We didn't want to go another 30 years before we made a record," Ely says. "After our last date of the tour, we were talking about it on the bus.

We said, 'Well, ought to just get together while the band is hot and fresh and record. Not even think about it.' Basically, that's what we did. We didn't plan it or anything. We just sat down and started recording songs that we'd like to hear on tape.

That's what this record is."In March 2003, the Flatlanders and their band - Robbie Gjersoe (guitars, banjo, vocals), Steve Wesson (musical saw), Tony Pearson (vocals), Gary Herman (bass), and Chris Searles (drums) - convened at Joe Ely's Austin studio, with Ely again producing.

Guests included steel guitarist (and noted producer) Lloyd Maines, guitarist Mitch Watkins, and accordionist Joel Guzman. The Flatlanders ended up cutting more than 30 songs, 14 of which appear on Wheels of Fortune.

Some of the tunes are brand new while others have been kicking around in the individual repertoires of Ely, Gilmore, and Hancock for some time.Hancock reflects, "We came together as a bunch of friends who happened to be musicians, too.

There's just that crazy Lubbock mystery to it. We've all had our focus on the quality of the songs and the music, instead of any kind of 'me first' thing, or any kind of ego trips. It's almost like the old Marx Brothers thing: Three guys get to the door at the same time, and they all say, 'Oh, no, you go first.

''No, you go first.' 'No, please, please, you go first.'"Ely adds, "We've always been close, but now I think that we all realize that this is something that is really special. There are very few people who have remained as close as we have, especially in the music world.

There are cases out there where brothers won't even talk to each other because they've been in the music business together. We consider this a real precious thing.""For it to still be as much fun as it was in the beginning, I feel blessed," says Gilmore.

This album contains no booklet.