Firefall

The band's releases were on Atlantic Records during their career and "You are the Woman" was featured as a notable track on the record label's twin compact-disc 40-year history retrospective that was released in 1988. Gilmore also had a minor role in the 1998 movie The Big Lebowski as a bowler named Smokey. Other hits also include "Strange Way" from 1978 and "Staying with It" from 1981, which had a female vocalist Lisa Nemzo. Gilmore's fans admire his fine tenor voice, which delivers expressive, pure, country singing. The band's biggest hit single "You Are the Woman" peaked at #9 on the Billboard charts. His first solo album, Fair and Square, was released in 1988. The album track from 1977's Luna Sea, "Cinderella", is a narrative about a man dealing with the torn feelings regarding his girlfriend's unexpected pregnancy and the negative consequences on the relationship and is one of the most controversial tracks released in the rock era. In the 1980s, he moved to Austin.

Firefall was a mainstay, album-oriented rock band that put out a large number of hits such as "You Are the Woman" and "Just Remember I Love You" in the late 1970's. Gilmore spent much of the 1970s in an ashram in Denver, Colorado, studying metaphysics. Mike Clarke was the drummer of The Byrds in its heyday and tragically died of liver failure on December 19, 1993 at the age of 47. The three friends continued to reunite for occasional Flatlanders performances, and in May of 2002 released a long-awaited follow-up album, Now Again, on New West records. The band consisted of Rick Roberts on vocals, Larry Burnett and Jack Bartley on guitars, legendary Spirit, Jo Jo Gunne, and future Heart bassist Mark Andes, Mike Clarke on drums, and keyboardist David Muse, who joined the band in 1977. It has since been acknowledged, through Rounder's 1991 reissue, (More a Legend Than a Band) as a milestone of progressive, alternative country.
Firefall was a band that formed in Boulder, Colorado in the mid-1970's. The band's first recording project, from the early 1970s, was barely distributed.

For help, see How to Edit a Page and the Style and How-to Directory. The group has been performing on and off since 1972. After the article has been cleaned up, you may remove this message. With Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, Gilmore founded the Flatlanders. This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of article quality. He was profoundly influenced in the 1960s by the likes of The Beatles and Bob Dylan and the folk music and blues revival in that decade. In the 1950s, he was exposed to the emerging rock and roll of other West Texans such as Buddy Holly and Roy Orbison.

His earliest musical influence was the honky tonk brand of country music that his father played as a bar-band guitarist. Gilmore was born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in the West Texas town of Lubbock, Texas. Jimmie Dale Gilmore (born May 6, 1945) is a country singer, songwriter, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas. ISBN 0-679-41567-x.

In The Country of Country: A Journey to the Roots of American Music, Nicholas Dawidoff, Vintage Books, 1998. One Endless Night, 2000. Braver Newer World, 1996. Spinning Around the Sun, 1993.

After Awhile, 1991. Jimmie Dale Gilmore, 1989. Fair and Square, 1988.