DALE,JIMMIE GILMORE & THE FLATLANDERS
ALL AMERICAN MUSIC - CD

UPC: 810075114744
Label: OMNIVORE RECORDINGS
Format: CD
Release Date: November 15, 2024
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All American Music is a foundational Americana album and an essential part of Texas music history, with songs like “Dallas” and “Tonight I’m Gonna Go Downtown” having become stand-alone classics. The album also gave rise to future Americana legends Butch Hancock, Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, solidifying its importance in American music.

Recorded in 1972 and scheduled for release the following year, All American Music was put on hold and went unissued except for a few copies that were released on 8-Track. It took a 1980 UK compilation to collect the known Flatlanders material, with a now out-of-print German compilation unearthing one more track in 2015.

Finally in 2024, Omnivore Recordings, in collaboration with Sun Records, brings all the known original Flatlanders tracks back to CD and a three-sided LP with a “musical saw” etching on side four. All American Music features all known 18 tracks from the sessions. The Grammy-winning team of Michael Graves, Colin Escott and Cheryl Pawelski have respectively remastered, written liner notes and produced the new compilation.

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.”

TRACK LIST:

DALLAS
THE HEART YOU LEFT BEHIND
SHE HAD EVERYTHING
TONIGHT I THINK I’M GONNA GO DOWNTOWN
WAITING FOR A TRAIN
ROSE FROM THE MOUNTAIN
YOU’VE NEVER SEEN ME CRY
JOLE BLON
BHAGAVAN DECREED
KEEPER OF THE MOUNTAIN
HELLO STRANGER
BONUS TRACKS:
DOWN IN MY HOMETOWN
ONE DAY AT A TIME
STARS IN MY LIFE
NOT LONG AGO
I KNOW YOU 
ONE ROAD MORE
DALLAS (Alternate)