The Crimson Moon: JIM LAUDERDALE (Grammy Winning Country Songwriter)

Jim Lauderdale is a beloved and respected roots music force whose songs were in country radio favor, recorded by Strait, the Dixie Chicks, Solomon Burke, Patty Loveless, Vince Gill, Blake Shelton and many others.He won Grammy awards, on his own (Bluegrass Diaries, in 2009) and with Ralph Stanley for Lost in the Lonesome Pines, in 2004). He won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Americana Music Association, and became known as “Mr. Americana.” He released an astoundingly varied catalog of albums that explores bluegrass, soul, rock and country, and that merited him induction into the North Carolina Music , rock and country, and that merited him induction into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. He collaborated with Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, the
North Mississippi All-Stars, and George Jones. JimLauderdale.com