Spinning Around the Sun is the fourth full-length album by country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 singer-songwriter Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Jimmie Dale Gilmore

Jimmie Dale Gilmore is a country singer, songwriter, actor, recording artist and producer, currently living in Austin, Texas.-Biography:...

. It was released in 1993 on Elektra Records

Elektra Records

Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group. In 2004, it was consolidated into WMG's Atlantic Records Group. After five years of dormancy, the label was revived by Atlantic in 2009....

, and was his second record for the label.

The album includes a duet with singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...

, called "Reunion".

Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau

Robert Christgau is an American essayist, music journalist, and self-proclaimed "Dean of American Rock Critics".One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns...

 gave the album an A grade, saying "I doubt I'll hear a more gorgeous country record--maybe a more gorgeous record--anytime soon." Mark Deming from Allmusic gave the record a 3.5-star rating, saying "there are too many tunes that are beautiful but unremarkable, and beyond a near-definitive reworking of Butch Hancock

Butch Hancock

Butch Hancock is a country/folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed a solo career....

's "Just a Wave, Not the Water," very little of this connects with the force of Gilmore's best work."

Track listing

1. "Where You Going" (Jimmie Dale Gilmore, David Hammond) 4:21
2. "Santa Fe Thief" (A. B. Strehli, Jr.) 5:00
3. "I Was the One" (Hal Blair, Claude Demetrius, Bill Peppers, Aaron Schroeder) 3:15
4. "So I'll Run" (Strehli) 3:50
5. "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
   I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
   "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" is a song written and recorded by American country music singer-songwriter Hank Williams in 1949. The song about loneliness was largely inspired by his troubled relationship with wife Audrey Sheppard...
   
   " (Hank Williams) 3:38
6. "Mobile Line" (Traditional) 3:43
7. "Nothing of the Kind" (Butch Hancock
   Butch Hancock
   Butch Hancock is a country/folk music recording artist and song writer. He was born July 12, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. Hancock is a member of The Flatlanders along with Joe Ely and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, but he has principally performed a solo career....
   
   ) 3:19
8. "Just a Wave, Not the Water" (Hancock) 4:02
9. "Reunion" (Jo Carol Pierce, Harry Porter) 2:54
   • with Lucinda Williams
     Lucinda Williams
     Lucinda Williams is an American rock, folk, blues and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public. In 1988, she released her self-titled album,...
     
     
10. "I'm Gonna Love You" (Gilmore) 3:46
11. "Another Colorado" (Gilmore) 3:31
12. "Thinking About You" (Gilmore) 3:17

Personnel

• Drums: Wes Starr, Harry Stinson
• Bass: Emory Gordy, Jr.
  Emory Gordy, Jr.
  Emory Gordy, Jr., born December 25, 1944, in Atlanta, Georgia, is an American musician and music producer. Since 1989, he has been married to country music artist Patty Loveless. Gordy was inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame in 1992...
  
  
• Guitars: Richard Bennett, James Burton
  James Burton
  James Burton is an American guitarist. A member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since 2001 , Burton has also been recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame...
  
  , Steve Gibson, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Chris Leuzinger, Gary Nicholson, Biff Watson
• Steel Guitar: Steve Fishell, Paul Franklin
  Paul Franklin (musician)
  Paul Franklin is an American multi-instrumentalist, known mainly for his work as a steel guitarist. He began his career in the 1970s as a member of Barbara Mandrell's road band; in addition he toured with Mel Tillis and Jerry Reed. He has since become a prolific session musician in Nashville,...
  
  , Kayton Roberts
• Keyboards, Piano: Glen D. Hardin, Pete Wasner
• Fiddle, Mandolin: Glen Duncan, Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan
  Stuart Duncan is a bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar and banjo. Born in Quantico, Virginia and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band, he has been a member of the Nashville Bluegrass Band since 1985, and is a much-in-demand session musician...
  
  
• Dobro: Al Perkins
  Al Perkins
  Al Perkins is a Texas-born American guitarist. The Gibson guitar company called Perkins "the world's most influential Dobro player", and even began producing an "Al Perkins Signature" Dobro in 2001 - designed and autographed by Perkins....
  
  
• Backing Vocals: Joe Ely
  Joe Ely
  Joe Ely is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist whose music touches on honky-tonk, Texas Country, Tex-Mex and rock and roll....
  
  , Carmella Ramsey, Harry Stinson

Production

• Produced By Emory Gordy, Jr.
• Engineers: Russ Martin
• Assistant Engineers: Terry Bates, Marc Frigo, Amy Hughes
• Mixing: Steve Tillisch

Chart performance

Chart (1993)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Top Country Albums	62
U.S. Billboard Top Heatseekers	27