If there’s a more prolific or consistent Nashville songwriter than Jim Lauderdale, I couldn’t tell you who it is. He’s written tunes for lots of famous singers—George Strait, Patty Loveless, Blake Shelton, Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan—but he’s also a terrific performer himself. Throughout the 90s he bounced among numerous major labels with little commercial success, but since turning to indies—and lately his own Sky Crunch imprint—he’s been releasing music under his own name as prolifically as he’s been writing it for other people. Since 2012 he’s dropped seven albums, including his latest, Soul Searching, which spreads 26 tunes across two discs.
Today’s playlist:
