The Grammy's: Songwriter's Songwriter Jim Lauderdale On New Album 'Hope,' Missing Robert Hunter & Why There's No Shortage Of Great Music Today
Even if you never get to Jim Lauderdale's thirty-somethingth album, he hopes you at least look at the cover. It's a serene, gently surreal painting by Maureen Hunter, the widow of Grateful Dead co-lyricist Robert Hunter. To him, even if record shoppers merely see that—with the word "Hope" in block letters above that—at least he'll have made a momentary impression on their hearts….