"After Awhile"
by Jimmie Dale Gilmore
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"After Awhile" is ranked as the best album by Jimmie Dale Gilmore.
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"After Awhile" track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 77 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
"After Awhile" rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 2 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | amirmishali | Top 100 Music Albums of the 1990s | 70/100 | 6 |
| 2025 |  Repo | Top 100 Music Albums of 1991 | 8/100 | 5 |
| 2025 |  Purplepash | Top 62 Music Albums of 1991 | 53/62 | 1 |
| 2024 |  EyeKanFly | AM Bubbling Under 1990s 2 | 70/100 | - |
| 2023 | cicadelic | Robert Christgau: Dean's List 1991 | 24/62 | - |
| 2022 | amirmishali | Top 43 Music Albums of 1991 | 8/43 | 4 |
| 2022 | arnellarsen | Top 73 Music Albums of 1991 | 59/73 | 1 |
| 2021 | henrygreen0203 | Texas Troubadours - 100 Singer-Songwriter Albums | 46/100 | - |
| 2021 | Daredevil42 | Top 29 Music Albums of 1991 | 24/29 | 1 |
| 2019 | henrygreen0203 | Texas 50/50 Songwriters | 39/99 | - |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 14 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 34 | |||
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"After Awhile" ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 03/16/2024 21:31 | cicadelic | 13,978 | 73/100 |
| ! | 05/14/2022 04:48 | Purplepash | 4,993 | 75/100 |
| ! | 12/06/2020 05:28 |  Martini | 762 | 95/100 |
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This album has a Bayesian average rating of 73.1/100, a mean average of 74.0/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.0/100. The standard deviation for this album is 19.8.
"After Awhile" forum mentions
Repo 10/30/2024 00:56 in What album are you listening to? (cont.) Purplepash 05/14/2022 04:55 in What album are you listening to right now? Repo 02/07/2018 18:01 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys"After Awhile" comments
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Repo TOP 100 COMMENTER 02/06/2018 18:07 | #207305
Character Sketches From a Saturday Night
Now this is what I was looking for. Country Blues that is immediate & real & raw. Character sketches that I can relate to. About human fallibility. About our flaws. Real life short stories that show just how little control we sometimes have over our lives & actions. The breadth of country music on display here is staggering and this is easily Gilmore's masterpiece. He's a worthy disciple of Townes Van Zandt, and I HIGHLY recommend this to anyone who likes TVZ and his brand of country. This is now my favorite album of 1991. It's just that good. And my kids are memorized by the homespun lyrics. How they speak the simple truths of human nature in just a few lines.
Essential.
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