2012 GRAMMY Nominee for his latest CD, Reason & Rhyme (Best Bluegrass Album), co-written with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. This is his sixth GRAMMY nomination overall including GRAMMY wins in 2008 and 2002.
"Add Lauderdale's terrific musical stylings, the twangy expressiveness of his singing, and his backing ensemble's crack playing, and what results is a classic bluegrass sound that is yet just a turn off-center. That’s an effect Jim Lauderdale seems to bring about no matter the genre." - Stuart Munro, Boston Globe, June 21, 2011 Review of Reason and Rhyme
2008 GRAMMY Winner for The Bluegrass Diaries (Best Bluegrass Album)
2002 GRAMMY Winner for Lost in the Lonesome Pines with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys (Best Bluegrass Album)
2 Previous GRAMMY Nominations: for Bluegrass (his first solo bluegrass CD) in 2007 & I Feel Like Singing Today with Ralph Stanley in 2000
"Jim Lauderdale is one of the most respected artists working in the bluegrass and country
music communities today. His reputation as a remarkable and multi-talented composer,
studio musician, live performer, and collaborator is undeniable. Start asking the who's who
of the music community, and you will quickly learn that most folks place Mr. Lauderdale
upon the highest tier amongst Nashville's very best songwriters." - Chris Mateer, No Depression, June 21, 2011
2011 Blue Ridge Hall of Fame Inductee
Jim Lauderdale was honored with the Inspiration Award at the SESAC 2010 Nashville Music Awards, as well as songwriting awards for his Patchwork River album (Americana Performance Activity Award), and two Country Performance Activity Awards for songs he wrote for George Strait: "I Gotta Get To You" (written w/ Blaine Larsen) and "Twang"
Featured in the 2010 Gwyneth Paltrow film Country Strong as a member of her band and performed with her as band leader on rhythm guitar at the 2010 Country Music Awards, broadcast on ABC November 10.
Recent appearance on Austin City Limits as a member of Elvis Costello's Sugarcanes band, and 2010 performances with Willie Nelson on The Late Show with David Letterman, The View and PBS' Soundstage.
Jim is featured on the new Elvis Costello CD, National Ransom, for which he co-wrote the song "I Lost You". He has been performing as a member of Elvis Costello's Sugarcanes band as they toured in support of Elvis's GRAMMY Nominated Secret, Profane & Sugarcane.
Featured on the latest Willie Nelson CD, Country Music, produced by T Bone Burnett
Writer of "Twang" the title track of George Strait's 2010 GRAMMY Nominated album
Featured performer on the Hot Tuna Blues tour February and March 2011 with Jorma Kaukonen, Jack Casady andCharlie Musselwhite
Songs recorded by artists such as: Patty Loveless, George Jones, The Dixie Chicks, Solomon Burke, Mark Chesnutt, Dave Edmunds, John Mayall, Kathy Mattea, Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan, Blake Shelton. Vince Gill, and George Strait
Opened for Johnny Cash at the Montreux Jazz Fest and has toured with Elvis Costello as a member of Sugarcanes, Lucinda Williams, Ralph Stanley, Nick Lowe, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rhonda Vincent and Merle Haggard among many others
Winner: Artist of the Year and Song of the Year by the Americana Music Association (2002)
Annual host of the Americana Music Awards for the last nine years (2003-2011)
Host of Tennessee Shines, a concert series broadcasted on WDVX, during its 2008-2010 run at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee.
"I've admired Jim Lauderdale's recordings for a good while... Jim is singing close vocal harmony on every song [on] this record. He's mastered that art of singing the second line without ever pulling attention from the narrator of the tale... It's transparent and essential at the same time... As fine a singer and songwriter as he is on his own recordings, I can't say enough about the tone and timbre that he adds to mine on every line he hits."- Elvis Costello on Jim Lauderdale on Secret, Profane & Sugarcane
Recent Festival Performances include: RootsFest, CO; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Bonnaroo; Merlefest, NC; Stagecoach Festival, CA; Live Oak Music Festival, CA; Snowbird Mountain Music Festival, UT; Grass Roots Festival, NY; Magnolia Music Festival, FL; Blind Willie McTell Blues Festival, GA; Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion, VA; Asheville Brewgrass Festival, NC
