Jim Lauderdale

Born in Troutman, North Carolina, in 1957 and long based in Nashville, Jim Lauderdale has built a career at the crossroads of country, bluegrass and Americana, with a marked taste for honky‑tonk, singer‑songwriter ballads and acoustic roots forms. After stints in Nashville, New York and then Los Angeles during the 1980s, Jim Lauderdale released his first album, Planet of Love, in 1991, before following with records that move between traditional country and a more folk‑oriented songwriting approach, such as Pretty Close to the Truth (1994), Whisper (1998) and Onward Through It All (1999). His trajectory also includes significant songwriting work for other artists, notably George Strait, Patty Loveless, Vince Gill and The Chicks. Jim Lauderdale has regularly developed duo and collaborative projects, with Ralph Stanley on Lost in the Lonesome Pines (2002), Buddy Miller on Buddy & Jim (2012), Robert Hunter on several albums, as well as with Donna the Buffalo, the North Mississippi Allstars and Roland White. More recently he released Time Flies (2018), From Another World (2019), When Carolina Comes Home Again (2020), Hope (2021), Game Changer (2022) and The Long and Lonesome Letting Go (2023).