Dubbed the "Poet laureate of the Buddhist cowboys" by Rolling Stone magazine, West Texas legend Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a masterful songwriter and storyteller with a pure, plaintive sound that springs from mountain and western music, and mystical lyrics full of ethereal images of hope and loss. Voted Country Artist of the Year for two years running in the Rolling Stone Critics Polls, Jimmie brings a strange, mesmerizing beauty to everything he sings, thanks to his superlative imagination and the kind of rich, haunting voice that gets right in under your skin and refuses to leave. Raised in western Texas, in the early 1970s Jimmie formed the legendary progressive country band the Flatlanders. The group, which included his boyhood buddies Joe Ely and Butch Hancock, recently released its long-awaited second album, Now Again (New West). Two of Jimmie's solo albums were nominated for Grammys in the mid-1990s, and his most recent recording is a beautiful synthesis of his traditional and visionary influences titled One Endless Night (Windcharger). Jimmie will be accompanied on stage by multi-instrumentalist Robbie Gjersoe on electric and acoustic guitar, dobro, lap steel, bottleneck slide, cavaquinho, mandolin, banjo and bass.