Spinning Around the Sun | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | 1993 | |||
Genre | Country music | |||
Length | 44:36 | |||
Label | Elektra[1] | |||
Producer | Emory Gordy Jr.[2] | |||
Jimmie Dale Gilmore chronology | ||||
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Review scores | |
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [3] |
Robert Christgau | A[4] |
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [5] |
Spin Alternative Record Guide | 9/10[6] |
Spinning Around the Sun is an album by country music singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore.[7] It was released in 1993 on Elektra Records, and was his second record for the label.
The album includes a duet with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams, "Reunion."
In The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics' poll for the year's best albums, Spinning Around the Sun finished at number 7.[8]
Robert Christgau gave the album an A grade, writing: "I doubt I'll hear a more gorgeous country record--maybe a more gorgeous record--anytime soon."[4] Mark Deming from AllMusic gave the record a 3.5-star rating, writing that "there are too many tunes that are beautiful but unremarkable, and beyond a near-definitive reworking of Butch Hancock's 'Just a Wave, Not the Water,' very little of this connects with the force of Gilmore's best work."[3] The Orlando Sentinel wrote that "Gilmore's synthesis of country, folk and rock 'n' roll is as effortless as ever, and his voice is its old sweet, nasal self."[1]
Chart (1993) | Peak position |
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U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums | 62 |
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers | 27 |