Jim Lauderdale Returns To His Roots With When Carolina Comes Home Again
Cover photo by Ian Laidlaw. Design by Nathan Golub.
Two-time GRAMMY Award-winning Americana Legend Pays Homage To His Native North Carolina with Bluegrass Album Out March 6
Features Celebrated North Carolina Artists: Steep Canyon Rangers, Balsam Range, Town Mountain, Songs From the Road Band, among others
Includes Co-Writes with Robert Hunter, Charles R. Humphrey III, John Oates, Si Kahn, Graham Sharp, Logan Ledger and Sara Douga
On the heels of 2019’s From Another World, the prolific, two-time GRAMMY Award-winning American music icon Jim Lauderdalewill release his 33rdalbum, When Carolina Comes Home Again, March 6on Yep Roc Records. The first single, “As A Sign,” co-written with Robert Hunter, is now available at all digital platforms. Click here to listen.
Returning to his geographical and musical roots, the 13-track bluegrass album pays homage to his native North Carolina and harkens back to the earliest music he learned to play. Recorded at Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, NC, the 13-track album features instrumental accompaniment from various members of NC-based acts, including Balsam Range, Cane Mill Road, Hank Pattie & the Current, John Stickley Trio, Songs From The Road Band, Steep Canyon Rangers, and Town Mountain; as well as Matt Pruett (banjo); Pattie Hopkins Kinlaw (fiddle); Aaron Ramsey (mandolin); Nick Dauphinais and Presley Barker on guitars.
“North Carolina has such a long and important heritage in bluegrass music,” Lauderdale says. “Since it’s where I’m originally from and where I started playing bluegrass, it seemed right to go back to my roots in bluegrass there and collaborate with musicians in that area. There’s just something in the atmosphere there. Hearing bluegrass in different areas and settings in North Carolina, the music is just there in the air. The first bluegrass festival I ever went to was Union Grove when I was 14, and it blew my mind. The music got into my bones, and I just had to get a banjo.”
When Carolina Comes Home Again is now available for pre-order.