JIM LAUDERDALE
''I'M A SONG''
JULY 1 2014
61:25
1 /Let's Have a Good Thing Together
Jim Lauderdale 2:09
2 /Past It
Mark Irwin / Jim Lauderdale / Jimmy Ritchey 2:38
3 /You've Got a Way All Yours
Jim Lauderdale 2:46
4 /I'm a Song
Jim Lauderdale 2:24
5 /The Feeling's Hanging On
Bobby Bare / Jim Lauderdale 4:43
6 /I Lost You feat: Buddy Miller
Elvis Costello / Jim Lauderdale 2:49
7 /Doin' Time In Bakersfield feat: Lee Ann Womack
Frank Dycus / Jim Lauderdale 3:27
8 /A Day with No Tomorrow feat: Lee Ann Womack
Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale 2:29
9 /End of the World Rag
Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale 3:17
10 /Neon Hearts
Odie Blackmon / Jim Lauderdale 2:49
11 /I Wish You Loved Me
Gary Allan / Jim Lauderdale / Matt Warren 3:05
12 /Makin' Honey
Odie Blackmon / Jim Lauderdale 2:10
13 /Let Him Come To You
Jim Lauderdale / John Oates 3:21
14 /Today I've Got the Yesterdays feat: Patty Loveless
Jim Lauderdale 2:27
James Burton /Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Resonator)
Perry Coleman /Vocal Harmony
Chad Cromwell /Drums
Dennis Crouch /Bass
Micah Hulscher /Hammond B3, Piano
John Jarvis /Piano
Jim Lauderdale
Patty Loveless /Featured Artist, Vocal Harmony
Rachel Loy /Bass (Electric)
Buddy Miller /Featured Artist, Vocal Harmony
John Oates /Guitar (Acoustic)
Russ Paul /Pedal Steel
Al Perkins /Lap Steel Guitar, Pedal Steel
Tanya Thancheroff /Vocal Harmony
Kenny Vaughn /Guitar (Electric)
Lee Ann Womack /Featured Artist, Vocal Harmony
OFFICIAL REVIEW
Jim Lauderdale released his 26th album, I'm A Song, featuring an all-star cast, 20 songs, and his first re-record of "King of Broken Hearts" yesterday, July 1st.
"A nearly unrivaled roots-music artist, Lauderdale continually demonstrates that the trappings surrounding a song are only as meaningful as its core: a great melody, lyrics that touch the heart without being insipid, and a beat that makes the body respond." - NPR Music
“Few current…acts sing with the command and authority Lauderdale brings to his performances, and fewer still have a set of songs at their disposal as good…” - All Music Guide
I’m A Song features performances by Lee Ann Womack, Patty Loveless, Buddy Miller, Al Perkins, Kenny Vaughn, Dennis Crouch, John Oates, Stuart Duncan, and more. Featured co-writes include Elvis Costello, Robert Hunter, Bobby Bare, Gary Allan, and more. Half of I'm A Song was recorded at the historic RCA Studio A.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Huey
Singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale helped lay out the blueprint for the Americana movement of the '90s, earning high critical marks for an eclectic series of albums that spanned hard country, slick pop, rootsy rock & roll, blues, folk, R&B, and bluegrass. He never sold that many records on his own, but his compositions were recorded -- often with considerable success -- by a number of contemporary country stars, including George Strait, Patty Loveless, Vince Gill, Mark Chesnutt, Kathy Mattea, and George Jones, among others. Lauderdale was born in Statesville, North Carolina, in 1957 and grew up loving country music; however, he was also drawn to the theater and later moved to New York, where he landed roles in two national touring productions. He subsequently settled in Los Angeles, where he began playing the now-legendary alt-country hot spot the Palomino Club. With Dwight Yoakam producer Pete Anderson behind the boards, he recorded a track for the seminal compilation A Town South of Bakersfield, which helped him -- briefly -- land a record deal with CBS. He completed an album in 1989, but the label declined to release it; it finally appeared over ten years later on an overseas label as Point of No Return.
Undaunted, Lauderdale signed with the Bluewater music publishing firm in Nashville, where his compositions found immediate success in the contemporary country world. Additionally, he sang backup on records by Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, and Rosie Flores, and toured with everyone from Freedy Johnston, Nick Lowe, and Hootie & the Blowfish to Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. He earned another shot with Reprise and issued his debut album, Planet of Love, in 1991, with production from Rodney Crowell and John Leventhal. The album was greeted with strong reviews by many critics, who hailed Lauderdale as a major new talent. Still, it would be three years before he would release another record; he returned in 1994, now on Atlantic, and issued two acclaimed albums over the next two years in Pretty Close to the Truth and Every Second Counts. In 1996, he moved over to roots label Rounder's Upstart subsidiary for Persimmons, yet another critical success.
Hopping to BNA, Lauderdale released Whisper in 1998, then returned to the majors on RCA, issuing the somewhat slicker-sounding, more commercial Onward Through It All in 1999. That same year, Lauderdale also took a detour into traditional bluegrass, recording the collaborative album I Feel Like Singing Today with the legendary Ralph Stanley for Rebel. Lauderdale finally found a more permanent home on Dualtone and debuted with 2000's The Other Sessions, a return to hardcore country. Two projects arrived in 2002: another album with Stanley, called Lost in the Lonesome Pines, and a country record called The Hummingbirds. Ever prolific, Lauderdale released Wait Til Spring in 2003, Headed for the Hills in 2004, Bluegrass in 2006, and The Bluegrass Diaries in 2007. Honey Songs, credited to Jim Lauderdale & the Dream Players, was issued in 2008. Could We Get Any Closer? appeared in 2009. Moving to Sugar Hill Records, Lauderdale released Reason and Rhyme in 2011, this time teaming with lyricist and longtime collaborator Robert Hunter on a set of new bluegrass-themed songs. He next teamed with longtime friend and fellow country roots singer and songwriter Buddy Miller for 2012's Buddy and Jim, released by New West Records.
Though he didn't record until the middle of 2013, Lauderdale released three albums on his Sky Crunch label within two months. The first, Old Time Angels was a bluegrass date that appeared in October. It was followed by the simultaneously issued solo acoustic Blue Moon Junction and the grimy swamp rock Black Roses in November. The latter was produced by Luther Dickinson (who also played guitar), with Cody Dickinson on drums, Amy LaVere on upright bass and backing vocals, and Spooner Oldham and Ian McLagan on piano. Lauderdale spent time writing for country artists and for the TV series Nashville, and released I'm a Song in June of 2014 on Sky Crunch through New West.
OFFICIAL SITE
''I'M A SONG''
JULY 1 2014
61:25
1 /Let's Have a Good Thing Together
Jim Lauderdale 2:09
2 /Past It
Mark Irwin / Jim Lauderdale / Jimmy Ritchey 2:38
3 /You've Got a Way All Yours
Jim Lauderdale 2:46
4 /I'm a Song
Jim Lauderdale 2:24
5 /The Feeling's Hanging On
Bobby Bare / Jim Lauderdale 4:43
6 /I Lost You feat: Buddy Miller
Elvis Costello / Jim Lauderdale 2:49
7 /Doin' Time In Bakersfield feat: Lee Ann Womack
Frank Dycus / Jim Lauderdale 3:27
8 /A Day with No Tomorrow feat: Lee Ann Womack
Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale 2:29
9 /End of the World Rag
Robert Hunter / Jim Lauderdale 3:17
10 /Neon Hearts
Odie Blackmon / Jim Lauderdale 2:49
11 /I Wish You Loved Me
Gary Allan / Jim Lauderdale / Matt Warren 3:05
12 /Makin' Honey
Odie Blackmon / Jim Lauderdale 2:10
13 /Let Him Come To You
Jim Lauderdale / John Oates 3:21
14 /Today I've Got the Yesterdays feat: Patty Loveless
Jim Lauderdale 2:27
James Burton /Guitar (Electric), Guitar (Resonator)
Perry Coleman /Vocal Harmony
Chad Cromwell /Drums
Dennis Crouch /Bass
Micah Hulscher /Hammond B3, Piano
John Jarvis /Piano
Jim Lauderdale
Patty Loveless /Featured Artist, Vocal Harmony
Rachel Loy /Bass (Electric)
Buddy Miller /Featured Artist, Vocal Harmony
John Oates /Guitar (Acoustic)
Russ Paul /Pedal Steel
Al Perkins /Lap Steel Guitar, Pedal Steel
Tanya Thancheroff /Vocal Harmony
Kenny Vaughn /Guitar (Electric)
Lee Ann Womack /Featured Artist, Vocal Harmony
OFFICIAL REVIEW
Jim Lauderdale released his 26th album, I'm A Song, featuring an all-star cast, 20 songs, and his first re-record of "King of Broken Hearts" yesterday, July 1st.
"A nearly unrivaled roots-music artist, Lauderdale continually demonstrates that the trappings surrounding a song are only as meaningful as its core: a great melody, lyrics that touch the heart without being insipid, and a beat that makes the body respond." - NPR Music
“Few current…acts sing with the command and authority Lauderdale brings to his performances, and fewer still have a set of songs at their disposal as good…” - All Music Guide
I’m A Song features performances by Lee Ann Womack, Patty Loveless, Buddy Miller, Al Perkins, Kenny Vaughn, Dennis Crouch, John Oates, Stuart Duncan, and more. Featured co-writes include Elvis Costello, Robert Hunter, Bobby Bare, Gary Allan, and more. Half of I'm A Song was recorded at the historic RCA Studio A.
BIOGRAPHY
by Steve Huey
Singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale helped lay out the blueprint for the Americana movement of the '90s, earning high critical marks for an eclectic series of albums that spanned hard country, slick pop, rootsy rock & roll, blues, folk, R&B, and bluegrass. He never sold that many records on his own, but his compositions were recorded -- often with considerable success -- by a number of contemporary country stars, including George Strait, Patty Loveless, Vince Gill, Mark Chesnutt, Kathy Mattea, and George Jones, among others. Lauderdale was born in Statesville, North Carolina, in 1957 and grew up loving country music; however, he was also drawn to the theater and later moved to New York, where he landed roles in two national touring productions. He subsequently settled in Los Angeles, where he began playing the now-legendary alt-country hot spot the Palomino Club. With Dwight Yoakam producer Pete Anderson behind the boards, he recorded a track for the seminal compilation A Town South of Bakersfield, which helped him -- briefly -- land a record deal with CBS. He completed an album in 1989, but the label declined to release it; it finally appeared over ten years later on an overseas label as Point of No Return.
Undaunted, Lauderdale signed with the Bluewater music publishing firm in Nashville, where his compositions found immediate success in the contemporary country world. Additionally, he sang backup on records by Yoakam, Lucinda Williams, and Rosie Flores, and toured with everyone from Freedy Johnston, Nick Lowe, and Hootie & the Blowfish to Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard. He earned another shot with Reprise and issued his debut album, Planet of Love, in 1991, with production from Rodney Crowell and John Leventhal. The album was greeted with strong reviews by many critics, who hailed Lauderdale as a major new talent. Still, it would be three years before he would release another record; he returned in 1994, now on Atlantic, and issued two acclaimed albums over the next two years in Pretty Close to the Truth and Every Second Counts. In 1996, he moved over to roots label Rounder's Upstart subsidiary for Persimmons, yet another critical success.
Hopping to BNA, Lauderdale released Whisper in 1998, then returned to the majors on RCA, issuing the somewhat slicker-sounding, more commercial Onward Through It All in 1999. That same year, Lauderdale also took a detour into traditional bluegrass, recording the collaborative album I Feel Like Singing Today with the legendary Ralph Stanley for Rebel. Lauderdale finally found a more permanent home on Dualtone and debuted with 2000's The Other Sessions, a return to hardcore country. Two projects arrived in 2002: another album with Stanley, called Lost in the Lonesome Pines, and a country record called The Hummingbirds. Ever prolific, Lauderdale released Wait Til Spring in 2003, Headed for the Hills in 2004, Bluegrass in 2006, and The Bluegrass Diaries in 2007. Honey Songs, credited to Jim Lauderdale & the Dream Players, was issued in 2008. Could We Get Any Closer? appeared in 2009. Moving to Sugar Hill Records, Lauderdale released Reason and Rhyme in 2011, this time teaming with lyricist and longtime collaborator Robert Hunter on a set of new bluegrass-themed songs. He next teamed with longtime friend and fellow country roots singer and songwriter Buddy Miller for 2012's Buddy and Jim, released by New West Records.
Though he didn't record until the middle of 2013, Lauderdale released three albums on his Sky Crunch label within two months. The first, Old Time Angels was a bluegrass date that appeared in October. It was followed by the simultaneously issued solo acoustic Blue Moon Junction and the grimy swamp rock Black Roses in November. The latter was produced by Luther Dickinson (who also played guitar), with Cody Dickinson on drums, Amy LaVere on upright bass and backing vocals, and Spooner Oldham and Ian McLagan on piano. Lauderdale spent time writing for country artists and for the TV series Nashville, and released I'm a Song in June of 2014 on Sky Crunch through New West.
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