Jim Lauderdale

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James Russell Lauderdale (born April 11, 1957) is an American country, bluegrass, and Roots singer-songwriter.

He has released 31 studio albums since 1986, including collaborations with artists like Dr. Byron.

The Buffalos, Ralph Stanley, Buddy Miller, and Donna the Buffalo were among Billy Graham's favorites.

Thousands of musicians have performed, including George Strait, Gary Allan, Elvis Costello, Blake Shelton, the Dixie Chicks, Vince Gill, and Patty Loveless, a "songwriter's songwriter."

Early life

Lauderdale was born in Troutman, North Carolina, the son of Barbara Ann Lauderdale (née Hobson) and Dr. Wilbur "Chap" Chapman Lauderdale. The mother of Lauderdale's mother was born in Kansas. She was active in Troutman, Charlotte, and Due West, South Carolina, where she served as music director, church organist, and choir director in addition to her work as a public school and piano teacher. His father was born in Lexington, VA, the son of Reverend David Thomas and Sallie Ann Lauderdale (née Chapman). The father of Lauderdale's father was a well-known minister in the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church. Rebecca "Becky" Tatum and Mark Tatum have one sister and a nephew, respectively, as well as Mark.

He grew up in Due West, South Carolina. Both of his parents were singers. He sang in his early years and learned the drums at 11, the harmonica at 13, and the banjo at 15. Ralph Stanley and bluegrass music have influenced him from a young age, according to him. In a duo with best friend Nathan Lajoie as a youth, he performed a variety of styles of music, including bluegrass, Grateful Dead, and folk.

Several musical acts would perform at Erskine College during his time in Due West. Can the Circle Be Unbroken by the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Neil Young's Harvest, Lauderdale remembers enjoying the album. He attended the Carolina Friends School in Durham, NC, and later moved to the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC, where he studied theatre. During college, he performed in both country and bluegrass bands.

Lauderdale is a long-serving resident of Nashville, Tennessee.

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Career

Lauderdale spent five months in Nashville, 1979, after graduating from college, before attempting to land a recording or publishing contract. He hung out a lot with Roland White, an outstanding mandolin player with whom he set a record. But things didn't go well, so he decided to live in New York, where he performed in Floyd Domino's band and appeared as a solo artist. Buddy Miller, a 1980 singer-songwriter, met him. He appeared in Miller's band when the twang music scene was still in its infancy at the time.

During his time in New York City, he served in the mailroom and as a messenger for Rolling Stone magazine. He was often ordered to pick up and drop off photographer Annie Leibovitz's equipment.

Bronson, Billy Bremmer, Pete Anderson, Lucinda Williams, Dale Watson, and others performed in Pump Boys & Dinettes, which later arrived in Los Angeles, where he met musicians Rosie Flores, Billy Bremmer, Pete Anderson, Lucinda Williams, Dale Watson, and others. In the late 1980s, John Ciambotti, Lauderdale's boss, and Lauderdale's manager, moved to Los Angeles, recording an album for CBS (which was later released as The Point of No Return). Buck Owens' Bakersfield sound influenced the album.

Lauderdale, Texas, with a small office in Nashville, was able to secure a publishing contract with a small company named Blue Water Music, which had a catalog of a few hundred songs he had written. Anderson produced a hit while living in Los Angeles, but the album was never released.

Lauderdale then signed a publishing contract with Reprise and then climbed to the second floor of Buddy and Julie Miller's house until he finally found his own place in Nashville.

Lauderdale formed Sky Crunch, his own record store, in 2013 so he'd be able to debut his many albums on a schedule that suit him.

In April 2018, Lauderdale signed to Yep Roc Records.

Planet of Love, Rodney Crowell and John Leventhal's solo debut, was released in 1991 by Lauderdale's single debut. The Lonesome Pines, a 2002 tribute to Ralph Stanley, received the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album. In 2008, the Bluegrass Diaries received the same award. Donna the Buffalo, a roots/jam band, appeared on the album Wait 'Til Spring, in 2003.

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In 2009, he was nominated for a Grammy Award.

Old Time Angels (a bluegrass album) and his first solo acoustic album, Blue Moon Junction, were followed by Black Roses with the North Mississippi All-Stars in 2013. No Way There From Here, Laura Cantrell's 2013 debut No Way There From Here. I'm A Song, his album, was released in 2014. On August 3, 2018, Lauderdale and Roland White will debut his latest album Time Flies.

He began working with Larry Campbell, the band Olabelle, and others in the American Beauty Project, a small group of musicians dedicated to reimagining in appearance the Grateful Dead's two classic 1970 albums, Workingman's Death, and American Beauty.

Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady, Barry Mitterhof, G.E. were among the many musical acts on tour in 2011. Smith, as well as Charlie Musselwhite for a brief period of time. He has appeared onstage with Elvis Costello, Rhonda Vincent, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and others.

Lauderdale wrote and produced two bluegrass albums with Ralph Stanley. I Feel Like Singing Today, their first collaboration, was nominated for a Grammy.

Buddy and Jim, a long-time associate and collaborator, was released in 2013 by Lauderdale as a record. In Miller's home studio, they shot it in three days. Miller was in charge of the mixing and manufacturing of the drink.

Lauderdale has often collaborated with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.

Headed for the Hills was Hunter's first collaboration with the Hills, and Patchwork River was the second in May 2010. Reason and Rhyme were their third collaboration in June 2011. In addition, they wrote songs for a North Mississippi Allstars album that was released in the fall of 2013.

Black Roses and Blue Moon Junction, two 2013 novels, were co-written by Hunter. Cody and Luther Dickinson of North Mississippi, who appeared at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville, as well as Muscle Shoals musicians Spooner Oldham and David Hood, are among the Black Roses. The album was shot at Jim Dickinson's recording studio, Zebra Ranch in Mississippi.

Lauderdale's debut at Blue Moon Junction in 2013 features his work as a singer and songwriter, some of whom co-wrote with Hunter in a solo, acoustic style. The record was set in Fort Lauderdale. Lauderdale claims that they have more information that might be a good follow-up album, and that they hope to work together again soon.

During a time when he lived in England, Lauderdale said he worked on a still-to-be-released record with Nick Lowe's band.

On August 3, 2018, Toronto released Jim Lauderdale and Roland White, a previously unheardsome pair who was with mandolin master Roland White. The album was released in Earl Scruggs' basement in 1979, but the songs were only discovered by White's wife recently.

The Jim Lauderdale Phenomenon, coined by singer-songwriter Kim Richey and included in a literary essay about how Lauderdale was nominated for a Grammy for his work with Stanley but not long after, RCA announced him out of a record contract with RCA. He was also released from Warner Bros., Columbia, and Atlantic Records. According to the story, many country artists who were signed to major labels in the 1990s struggled to get radio airtime and were fired after recording one or two albums. During this period, when a lot of good music was being created and recorded, the issue became epidemic in Nashville, but the megastars ruled the airwaves.

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