"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 "I've admired Jim Lauderdale's recordings for a good while... Jim is singing close vocal harmony on every song [on] this record. ...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

BUDDY AND JIM
- Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale December 2012, New West Records

CAROLINA MOONRISE
- Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter and Jim Lauderdale
September 2012, Sky Crunch Records

THE KING OF BROKEN HEARTS
Jim Lauderdale documentary directed by Jeremy Dylan
Premiered at Grammy Museum December 2012

★Annual host of the Americana Music Awards for the last eleven years (2003-2013)

★Co-host of The Buddy & Jim Show with the Americana Artist of the Year Buddy Miller - airing on the SiriusXM Radio Outlaw Country channel

★Host of Tennessee Shines, a concert series broadcasted on WDVX, during its 2008-2010 run at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee

GRAMMY HIGHLIGHTS:
★2014 GRAMMY Nominee for Buddy and Jim (Best Americana Album) with Buddy Miller
★2012 GRAMMY Nominee for Reason and Rhyme (Best Bluegrass Album), co-written with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter.
★2010 GRAMMY Nominee for Could We Get Any Closer? (Best Bluegrass Album)
★2008 GRAMMY WINNER for The Bluegrass Diaries (Best Bluegrass Album)
★2007 GRAMMY Nomination for Bluegrass (his first solo bluegrass CD)
★2002 GRAMMY WINNER for Lost in the Lonesome Pines with Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys (Best Bluegrass Album)
★2000 GRAMMY Nomination for I Feel Like Singing Today with Ralph Stanley

HONORS & AWARDS:
★2011 - Blue Ridge Hall of Fame Inductee
★2010 - Honored with the Inspiration Award at the SESAC Nashville Music Awards. Also, presented with the Americana Performance Activity Award for the CD Patchwork River and two Country Performance Activity Awards for the songs he wrote for George Strait: "I Gotta Get To You" (written with Blaine Larsen) and "Twang"
★2004 - Presented with the Americana Performance Activity Award at the SESAC Country Music Awards for his CD Headed for the Hills
★2002 - Winner of the Americana Music Awards for Artist of the Year AND for Song of the Year "She's Looking at Me" with Ralph Stanley

OTHER AWARDS:
★BMI One Million Performances Award for "Gonna Get a Life" and "Halfway Down".
★BMI Country Award (for Popularity as Measured by Broadcast Performances) for "We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This" and "You Don't Seem To Miss Me" in 1999.
★BMI Country Award for "Gonna Get a Life" and "Halfway Down" in 1996 and winner of the Music Row Award for Breakthrough Songwriter of the Year in 1996

ON TV:
★Fall 2013 - Host of Music City Roots, a weekly live variety show from Nashville's Loveless Café broadcast on PBS.
★2013 - Featured performing at the Grand Ole Opry on ABC's Nashville (5/5/13) - the third time either Jim or his music has been featured on the acclaimed, country music-based drama.
★2012 and 2009 - On Austin City Limits with Elvis Costello's Sugarcanes as well as featuring on Elvis' 2010 CD, National Ransom, for which Jim co-wrote the song "I Lost You". Jim also performed on Elvis' 2009 GRAMMY Nominated CD Secret, Profane & Sugarcane and with Elvis' Sugarcanes on The Late Show with David Letterman during this tour.
★2010 - Featured in the Gwyneth Paltrow film, Country Strong, as a band member and performed as her band leader at the ABC televised 2010 Country Music Awards
★2010 - Performances with Willie Nelson on The Late Show with David Letterman, The View and PBS's Soundstage. As well as on Willie's GRAMMY Nominated CD, Country Music, produced by T Bone Burnett

RECENT FESTIVAL PERFORMANCES INCLUDE:
RootsFest, CO; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; Bonnaroo; Merlefest, NC; Stagecoach 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

ON TOUR WITH:
Elvis Costello as a member of his band The Sugarcanes, plus shows with Lucinda Williams, Ralph Stanley, Nick Lowe, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rhonda Vincent and Merle Haggard among many others. Opened for Johnny Cash at the 1994 Montreux Jazz Fest.

SONGS COVERED BY:
George Strait ("I Gotta Get To You" and "Twang"), Patty Loveless, George Jones, The Dixie Chicks, Solomon Burke, Mark Chesnutt, Dave Edmunds, John Mayall, Kathy Mattea, Lee Ann Womack, Gary Allan, Blake Shelton and Vince Gill