Jim Lauderdale

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Jim Lauderdale is an American Americana, country and bluegrass singer-songwriter, born April 11, 1957 in Troutman, North Carolina and based in Nashville. He studied at the North Carolina School of the Arts before spending the 1980s working between New York and Los Angeles, where he fell in with Buddy and Julie Miller and Shawn Colvin; he lived on the second floor of the Millers' house after moving to Nashville. His solo debut, Planet of Love, appeared in 1991, produced by Rodney Crowell and John Leventhal with harmony vocals from Colvin and Emmylou Harris, and established him on Music Row as a songwriter other artists came to. He has since released more than thirty studio albums. Lauderdale won Grammy Awards for Best Bluegrass Album twice: in 2002 for Lost in the Lonesome Pines, recorded with Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys, and in 2008 for The Bluegrass Diaries. He took the inaugural Americana Music Association Artist of the Year and Song of the Year awards in 2002 and went on to host the association's annual honors ceremony for years; in 2016 the AMA gave him its Wagonmaster lifetime achievement award, presented by George Strait at the Ryman Auditorium. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2025. His recording partnerships include albums with Ralph Stanley, Buddy Miller, Donna the Buffalo and the Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, with whom he wrote across several records. Songs he wrote have been recorded by George Strait, Vince Gill, Elvis Costello, the Chicks and Blake Shelton. He founded his own Sky Crunch Records in 2013 and signed to Yep Roc in 2018, and he co-hosts The Buddy and Jim Show with Buddy Miller on SiriusXM. Two further albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and the bluegrass set The Birds Know, are slated for 2026.

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