Jim Lauderdale To Release Bluegrass Album

Jim Lauderdale will release his 21st recording, Carolina Moonrise, September 25 through Sky Crunch Records. All 13 tracks on the bluegrass album were co-authored by Lauderdale and writer, Robert Hunter, marking the pair’s fifth effort together.

Recorded at Nashville’s Slack Key Studios with producer and dobro player Randy Kohrs, the album features Tim Crouch (fiddle), Jay Weaver (bass), Josh Williams (guitar), Aaron Ramsey (mandolin), and Scott Vestal (banjo) on every track.

“Iodine,” the album’s first track, has been released as a single to bluegrass radio.

“I got to write the whole record with one of my all-time heroes, Robert Hunter,” Lauderdale said. “Randy Kohrs really outdid himself as a producer and it was incredible to work with these fine players.”

Lauderdale will return to host the Americana Awards & Honors at the Ryman Auditorium this evening (9/12). Additionally, the singer has joined Buddy Miller, for The Buddy & Jim Show, airing in bi-weekly Saturday and Sunday segments on Sirius XM Outlaw Country. Lauderdale also hosts a radio program on Nashville’s WSM-AM as well as Music City Roots, Live From The Loveless Café.

He has earned a Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album in 2002 and 2007 for Lost In The Lonesome Pines, a Ralph Stanley collaboration and The Bluegrass Diaries, respectively.

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