It’s a sign of what a big tent this music has become that two new releases by major artists should feature “bluegrass” so prominently in their titles yet sound so little alike. Time was when everyone knew what bluegrass sounded […]
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Jim Lauderdale’s 1991 Warner Bros. debut Planet Of Love always struck me as one of that era’s most perfect albums, of the moment yet traditional, direct while remaining both imaginative and creative. In those days, the dominance of New Traditionalism […]
For a decade and a half now, fans of so-called alternative country have been waging a kind of war against the country mainstream. It has mostly been a one-sided war. While much of the small audience for alt-country despises, quite […]
Jim Lauderdale already had The Hummingbirds in the can last year when, at the last minute, he decided to go back to the studio and record an entirely new album. The result was The Other Sessions, a superb collection of […]
Jim Lauderdale has always been a terrific songwriter and singer, but this time he’s raised the standards for himself and everyone within listening distance with a disc of hard country that walks that famous line between then and now. Lauderdale […]
That Jim Lauderdale is not more well-known is an enigma. To the mainstream Nashville community, he’s an accomplished songwriter, having written big radio hits for the likes of George Strait, Mark Chesnutt and Patty Loveless. As a performer, however, that […]
I’d like to think we’re missing something, my co-editor and I, when it comes to Jim Lauderdale. Understand that the two of us quite often don’t see eye to eye in our musical tastes, a divergence that hopefully helps bring […]
Too many people with good ears have said too much good about Jim Lauderdale for this, his second major label offering, to be altogether representative of his talent. Still, since he shares production credit with Dusty Wakeman, it’s hard to […]
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