Jim Lauderdale: Reason and Rhyme – review

(Sugar Hill Records) This album is subtitled Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter and Jim Lauderdale, and it's the input from Hunter that makes it special. He was, after all, the lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and responsible for co-writing their folk and country-influenced classics, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, in the early 70s. Here he teams up with Lauderdale, a successful Nashville singer-songwriter whose songs have been covered by the likes of the Dixie Chicks, and who has also been...

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