Jim Lauderdale Featuring Opening Act The Accomplices Band

  • Opening Act

Showings

Mars Theatre Sat, Jun 27, 2015 8:00 PM
Event Info
Doors Open:1 Hour Before Show Time
Run Time:2 Hours
Ticket Price:$25.00
More Info
Website:www.jimlauderdale.com
www.theaccomplicesband.com
Facebook:www.facebook.com/JimLauderdaleOfficial

Description

“Few current...acts sing with the command and authority Lauderdale brings to his performances, and fewer still have a set of songs at their disposal as good...” - All Music Guide


Jim Lauderdale is a multiple Grammy® and Americana Music Association Award-winning musician and one of the most respected artists working the Americana, Bluegrass and Country music communities today. His record Buddy and Jim, which he wrote and recorded with longtime friend and collaborator Buddy Miller, was nominated this year for a Grammy in the Best Americana Album category and several Americana Music Awards, a show which he has hosted since 2002.


Lauderdale has always stayed true to his North Carolina roots but is influenced from the experience of his travels. He first immersed himself in the early country music scenes of both New York City and Los Angeles before breaking through in Nashville as a songwriter. He has helped pave the way of the current Americana Movement recording records and writing songs that cross genres from country, pop, roots, rock, folk and bluegrass.


Lauderdale, a master songwriter, has had his work recorded by artists such as Patty Loveless, Shelby Lynne, Solomon Burke, The Dixie Chicks and George Strait, who has had numerous hits with Jim’s songs. Lauderdale’s music has been featured regularly on the ABC hit show Nashville, and he has several tracks on the soundtrack of the successful film Pure Country.


Lauderdale is often called upon as a player and has toured with the likes of Lucinda Williams, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Rhonda Vincent and Elvis Costello. He also co-hosts a weekly radio show on SiriusXM with Buddy Miller called “The Buddy & Jim Show,” which NPR’s Fresh Air described as “...highly entertaining...” Lauderdale is also the host of the popular Music City Roots each week from the Loveless Barn in Nashville and Scenic City Roots monthly in Chattanooga, TN.


He frequently collaborates with legends like Ralph Stanley, Elvis Costello and Robert Hunter and is also a critically acclaimed solo artist with dozens of studio releases, including his latest I’m A Song.

Featuring Opening Act The Accomplices Band

The Accomplices are a lowcountry string band based in Savannah, Georgia that have found a road of their own in the vast wilderness of the Americana sound. Not quite country, not quite bluegrass, not quite jamband, but a remarkable amalgam of all of the above and more, The Accomplices—Matt Eckstine, Zach Smith, Colleen Heine, and Stan Ray—create a timeless, energetic sound full of audio texture, gorgeous harmonies and thoughtful songwriting.