 Artist: Jim Lauderdale: mp3 download Genre(s): Country Discography:  Country Super Hits, Vol. 1 Year: 2006 Tracks: 13  Bluegrass Year: 2006 Tracks: 13 Singer/songwriter Jim Lauderdale helped put down out the design for the Americana trend of the '90s, earning high school critical marks for an eclectic serial of albums that spanned hard land, slick pop, rootsy rock music & cast, blues, tribe, R&B, and blue grass. He ne'er sold that many records on his own, merely his compositions were recorded -- ofttimes with considerable success -- by a number of contemporary area stars, including George Strait, Patty Loveless, Vince Gill, Mark Chesnutt, Kathy Mattea, and George Jones, among others. Lauderdale was born in Statesville, NC, in 1957 and grew up loving country euphony; even so, he was besides careworn to the theatre and later stirred to New York, where he landed roles in deuce national touring productions. He later 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 -- res publica a record deal with CBS. He completed an album in 1989, just the label declined to release it; it last appeared o'er decade long time later on on an overseas label as Point of No Return.Undaunted, Lauderdale signed with the Bluewater euphony publication firm in Nashville, where his compositions set up immediate success in the contemporaneous res publica worldly concern. 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, Major planet of Love, in 1991, with production from Rodney Crowell and John Leventhal. The record album was greeted with stiff reviews by many critics, world Health Organization hailed Lauderdale as a major modern natural endowment. Still, it would be triplet days before he would release another record; he returned in 1994, now on Atlantic, and issued 2 acclaimed albums over the next iI old age in Pretty Close to the Truth and Every Second Counts. In 1996, he affected over to roots label Rounder's Upstart subsidiary for Persimmons, withal some other critical success. Hopping to BNA, Lauderdale released Whispering in 1998, then returned to the big league on RCA, issuing the somewhat slicker-sounding, more than commercial Forward Through It All in 1999. That same class, Lauderdale also took a detour into traditional bluegrass, recording the collaborative record album I Feel Like Singing Today with the legendary Ralph Stanley for Rebel. Lauderdale eventually establish a more than permanent home on Dualtone and debuted with 2000's The Other Sessions, a retrovert to hard-core state. 2002 brought iI projects: another album with Stanley, called Lost in the Lonesome Pines, and a country record called The Hummingbirds. Ever prolific, Lauderdale released Hold back Til Spring in 2003, Headed for the Hills in 2004, Bluegrass Region in 2006, and The Bluegrass Diaries in 2007. |
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