Americana Icon Jim Lauderdale's 34th album, 'Hope' Out Now
Two-time GRAMMY® Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdale’s 34th album, Hope; listen/buy here.
Co-produced by Lauderdale and his longtime collaborator Jay Weaver, Hope was recorded at the fabled Blackbird Studios In Nashville with many of the tracks engineered by Blackbird Academy students. A joyous musical tribute to the spirit of overcoming and healing, the album features songs of hope, courage, and perseverance.
Of the album, Lauderdale comments, “I wanted to get a musical message out there during this time of what we’ve all been going through, about the hope for better days ahead. If we can find any glimmers of hope, that really helps get you through another day.”
What the press are saying:
“…Hope extends an aptly optimistic message, Lauderdale serving as a philosopher-cheerleader…” –No Depression
“Leave it to Lauderdale, one of this generation’s top songwriters, to perfectly capture the many emotions of our pandemic-induced collective state of mind and take us to the other side smiling.” –Glide Magazine
“To use an old advertising line, Jim Lauderdale is as good for you today as he's always been. In fact, amid the chaos of our recent times, he's even better. The long-time host of the AMAs - and 2016 recipient of their Lifetime Achievement title - has always had a glass half full attitude to music, as to life. With Hope, he delivers a specific message of better days to come….” - Holler
”Reviewing albums can be difficult. A reviewer often does not have time to let the material sit and percolate, for it to grow, and for it to be fully appreciated. Often the material is instantly great, and then it is easy. Nashville legend Jim Lauderdale has made this review an enjoyably simple task. With thirty-one albums under his belt, this is to be expected…” - Americana UK
”There are laconic, colorful tale-spinners who just happen to have been born with the gift of gab, who can almost effortlessly entertain an audience of any size. And then there’s alt-country tunesmith Jim Lauderdale, a genial Garrison Keillor-meets-Grandpa Simpson raconteur with a surreal stream-of-consciousness style all his own. And his stories, after 35 oddly unsung years in the music business, will start deceptively simple, then zig-zag wherever they may, and yet hold your riveted interest the entire time. So when he phones to discuss Hope, his aptly optimistic new outing for YepRoc, you have to be prepared for the conversation to go just about anywhere….” - Paste Magazine
