Jim Lauderdale and his Band

Jim Lauderdale has never been content to sit still in any one musical place for long, effortlessly cycling through a wide range of country, rock, and bluegrass shades of Americana. But Hope, album number 34 in the two-time GRAMMY® award-winning singer-songwriter’s distinguished career, nevertheless stands out stylistically as well as thematically. After a year of locked-down isolation, Hope finds Lauderdale breaking out with wide-open arrangements along the lines of Neil Young, The Grateful Dead and Little Feat.

With several Grammy and Americana Awards under his belt, Lauderdale‘s penchant for imaginative roots music encompasses all that is today’s musical landscape. His combination of Country, Bluegrass, Soul, R&B and Rock has helped to pave the way for the current Americana movement.

For several decades, Jim has written songs for and worked with some of the finest artists in traditional and modern music including Ralph Stanley, Elvis Costello, George Strait, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, John Oates, Solomon Burke, Lee Ann Womack, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Blake Shelton, the Dixie Chicks, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, and Gary Allan among others.

Lauderdale co-hosts “The Buddy & Jim Show” weekly radio program on SiriusXM with Buddy Miller, and is a co-host for Music City Roots, the weekly live radio show, podcast and PBS series.  Recently, the Americana Music Association honored him with the WagonMaster Lifetime Achievement Award. Jim has certainly earned it, having released a staggering 34 albums with the latest Hopeout on Yep Roc in 2021.