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Just when he was becoming successful, Jimmie Dale Gilmore left the music business and entered a
period of spiritual introspection. It wasn't until after he moved to Austin in 1980 that he began to consider
another run at the music business. He explained, "I came to believe I could integrate my life in music
with my spiritual life." Later he told an interviewer, "I'll tell you what resolved it for me, somewhere around
my last year of high school or my first year of college, I read a book by Ezra Pound and somewhere in it
he said, 'The poem fails when it strays too far from the song, and the song fails when it strays too far from
the dance.' That line really hit me. It made sense, because I'm a music lover, but I also feel that music
has to be understandable, right down to the honky-tonk level."

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