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- Grammy Award Winner 2008
- Best Bluegrass Album
(Vocal or Instrumental.)
- The Bluegrass Diaries
Jim Lauderdale
[Yep Roc Records]
Lauderdale was presented with the Best Bluegrass Album award for
his album
The Bluegrass Diaries. This is the second time Lauderdale has
been honoured
by the prestigious award, following his 2002 win for his
collaboration with
the legendary Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys on Lost
In The
Lonesome Pines.
- Karl Broadie and Jim Lauderdale -
Photo Courtesy of Wendy Broome
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- Jim Lauderdale and Adam Harvey
Tamworth Festival 2007
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- Jim Lauderdale - from
Nashville to Tamworth
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- Grammy-winning
international star on The Family stage in Tamworth
- The Pub Group is proud to present two
concerts by Grammy Award-winning Nashville recording artist, Jim
Lauderdale, during the 2007 Tamworth Country Music Festival.
The concerts will be staged in Doms Room at The Family Hotel at
8pm Friday, January 26 and 9.30pm Saturday, January 27. For the
uninitiated, attending a Jim Lauderdale concert is truly an event
that must be experienced to be appreciated. He’s widely known as
“the writer’s writer”, having penned hits for George Strait,
George Jones, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, the Dixie Chicks and
more. Even in Nashville, a city teeming with talent, Jim
Lauderdale is unique.
He came to Music City, not as a kid off the Greyhound with stars
in his eyes, but as a singer and songwriter who had already begun
a promising career. Once arrived, he became a high-profile
performer while at the same time building his reputation as a
songwriter of renown. By 2002, Lauderdale’s collaboration with
Ralph Stanley, Lost in the Lonesome Pines, garnered him a Grammy
for Best Bluegrass Album of the Year, and he was presented with
both the Americana Music Association’s Artist of the Year Award
and Song of the Year. Pundits in the know took note early of
Lauderdale’s appeal. Jim Macnie suggests – correctly – on
allmusic.com that “if every Nashville singing star had to cut at
least one Lauderdale song, country wouldn’t be the Chumpville that
it is these days.” The Nashville Scene classifies him as “a hip
country chameleon.” And Entertainment Weekly lauds his ability to
make his songs “ache, bend, snort, and moan in a way no one else
does.”
All of this suggests that Lauderdale isn’t an artist you can file
easily into any one category. And now, with his simultaneous
release of two new albums, different in style yet equal in their
excellence, this point is made clearer than ever. On Bluegrass, a
collection of tunes written alone or with co-writers like Buddy
Miller, John Leventhal, Joe Henry, and Leslie Satcher, Lauderdale
assembles an all-star lineup of musicians who know their way
around the banjo and fiddle, and invests this traditional music
with the creative chops that have made him a fixture along Music
Row. And on Country Super Hits Volume 1, he pairs with another
respected writer, Odie Blackmon (also his co-producer on this
project), to create a selection of tunes that capture the essence
of classic honky-tonk and mainstream country, right down to the
jukebox glow and the last-call bouquet of whiskey and beer.
As with all of Lauderdale’s work, from Planet of Love, his
critic-dazzling debut in 1991, through Headed for the Hills, his
epic collaboration in 2004 with Grateful Dead lyrical wizard
Robert Hunter, Bluegrass and Country Super Hits Volume 1 make a
strong initial impression and grow richer with repetition. The
point is that, as compelling as this music is when heard for the
first time, there’s plenty going on below the surface too. Ask
Lauderdale about this, and his answer is unexpected yet right on
the button: “I think there are more similarities than differences
between these two albums,” he says. “These songs could go either
way. The bluegrass stuff could be cut by a country artist, and
vice versa. To me, a good song is a good song, no matter how you
do it.”
Tickets for Jim Lauderdale – Direct from Nashville, are $14.50 and
can be purchased from Tourism Tamworth,
www.visittamworth.com or phone (02) 6767 5300. He
will be supported by the 2007 Telstra Road to Tamworth winner and
the 2007 TRTT Pub With No Beer Songwriter winner.
Anna Rose
The Pub Management
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