Press Releases

• May 16 2018 Jim Lauderdale announces two new albums; new song available

  JIM LAUDERDALE RETURNS TO YEP ROC WITH PAIR OF NEW ALBUMS

   

  2X GRAMMY® AWARD-WINNING AMERICANA PIONEER ANNOUNCES

  SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE OF TWO DISTINCT LPS ON AUGUST 3

   

  ALL NEW TIME FLIES HERALDED BY

  TODAY’S ROLLING STONE PREMIERE OF TITLE TRACK

   

  PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE

  MARKS LAUDERDALE’S LONG LOST FIRST-EVER RECORDINGS

  IN COLLABORATION WITH BLUEGRASS LEGEND

   

  Yep Roc Records is proud to announce the simultaneous release of two records from Nashville legend Jim Lauderdale on Friday, August 3 — TIME FLIES and JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE. Both are “new,” but only TIME FLIES  was recently recorded.

   

  Lauderdale’s 30th and 31st studio albums respectively, TIME FLIES and JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE mark the 2x GRAMMY® Award-winner’s long awaited return to the Yep Roc roster after a decade apart. TIME FLIES and JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE are heralded by today’s Rolling Stone premiere of the former collection’s title track, “Time Flies,” streaming now at XX. In addition, Lauderdale has unveiled a Monty Python’s Flying Circus-inspired animated trailer announcing both TIME FLIES and JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE, streaming now at the official Yep Roc YouTube channel.

   

  LISTEN TO “TIME FLIES” (link)

   

  Lauderdale will mark the arrival of TIME FLIES and JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE with an assortment of upcoming live dates, including headline shows and festival performances such as this Saturday’s Appalachia Rising event at the Carter Family Fold in Hiltons, VA (May 19). Additional live dates will be announced soon – please see www.jimlauderdale.com for updates and more.

   

  JIM LAUDERDALE ON TOUR 2018

   

  MAY

  19 – Hiltons, VA – Appalachia Rising @ The Carter Family Fold

  26 – Lafayette, LA – Warehouse 535

  29 – Nashville, TN – Honky Tonk Tuesday Nights @ The American Legion

  31 – Nashville, TN – The Station Inn

   

  JUNE

  29 – Chicago, IL – The Hideout

  30 – Chicago, IL – The Hideout

   

  JULY

  19 – Buffalo, NY – Sportsman Tavern

  20 – Trumansburg, NY – Trumansburg Fairgrounds

  29 – White Sulphur Springs, MT – Jackson Ranch

   

  AUGUST

  25 – Black Mountain, NC – Pisgah Brewing Company

   

  ADDITIONAL DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED

   

  TIME FLIES sees Lauderdale doing what he does best, writing and performing classic Americana distinctively infused with striking notes of country and soul. Produced by Lauderdale and Jay Weaver at Nashville’s Blackbird Studio and House of Blues Studios, the album is among the most striking works of this one-of-a-kind artist’s three decade career, once again demonstrating his remarkable lyrical gifts and genre-agnostic musical approach. Songs like the stirring title track offer able evidence that Lauderdale’s creative mission continues unabated, his ability to rejuvenate his sound indomitable.

   

  JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE is Lauderdale’s previously unreleased first full-length record, a collection of classic bluegrass recorded in the basement of Earl and Louise Scruggs’ Nashville home in the summer of 1979 and then lost for nearly four decades. Lauderdale was new to town at the time, while White was already a true bluegrass legend, known for his mastery of the mandolin and foundation of such iconic groups as The Kentucky Colonels and Country Gazette. Sadly the master tapes went missing for 38 years and were only recently rediscovered at the bottom of a box by White’s wife. As remarkable, energetic, and original today as it was when initially recorded, JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE provides an intimate look into the nascent beginnings of a truly extraordinary American artist.

   

  Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning singer and master songwriter Jim Lauderdale has created a truly unique body of work spanning more than 30 albums of imaginative roots music, encompassing country, bluegrass, soul, R&B and rock, as such helping pave the way for the current Americana movement.

   

  Lauderdale – who has released at least one, and sometimes as many as three, records every year since 1998 – is a true songwriter’s songwriter, the second most recorded writer in George Strait’s canon as well as the writer or co-writer of country hits by Patty Loveless, George Jones, Mark Chesnutt, Dixie Chicks, Blake Shelton and others. Also known as an intuitive sideman, Lauderdale has enhanced the music of countless iconic artists, including Dr. Ralph Stanley, the North Mississippi Allstars, Donna the Buffalo, Elvis Costello, Buddy Miller and Lucinda Williams. Other collaborations include six collections co-written with legendary Grateful Dead collaborator Robert Hunter. As if all that weren’t enough, Lauderdale is also co-host – with Buddy Miller – of SiriusXM’s weekly “The Buddy & Jim Radio Show,” as well as co-host of “Music City Roots,” Nashville’s long-running roots and Americana variety show.

   

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  JIM LAUDERDALE

  TIME FLIES

  (Yep Roc)

  Release Date: Friday, August 3rd

   

  TRACKLISTING

   

  1. Time Flies

  2. The Road is a River

  3. Violet

  4. Slow As Molasses

  5. Where the Cars Go By Fast

  6. When I Held The Cards

  7. Wearing Out Your Cool

  8. Wild On Me Fast

  9. While You’re Hoping

  10. It Blows My Mind

  11. If the World’s Still Here Tomorrow

   

  JIM LAUDERDALE

  JIM LAUDERDALE AND ROLAND WHITE

  (Yep Roc)

  Release Date: Friday, August 3rd

   

  TRACKLISTING

   

  1. Forgive and Forget

  2. Gold and Silver

  3. (Stone Must Be The) Walls Built Around Your Heart

  4. Six White Horses

  5. I Might Take You Back Again

  6. Try and Catch the Wind

  7. Don’t Laugh

  8. Regrets and Mistakes

  9. February Snow

  10. (That’s What You Get) For Loving Me

  11. Gonna Lay Down My Old Guitar

  12. Nashville Blues

   

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