Shaped By Sound Episode 2.09 Jim Lauderdale

Jim Lauderdale, known as “Mr. Americana,” is a Nashville singer-songwriter who learned to sing and play multiple instruments in his native North Carolina. A two-time Grammy Award winner with 38 albums released and two more coming. His songs have topped country charts, and in 2002, the Americana Music Association named him both Songwriter and Artist of the Year. His Grammys include Bluegrass Album of the Year for Lost in the Lonesome Pines, which he won with Ralph Stanley. He received the Wagonmaster Award in 2016 and was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2025. After collaborating on six albums with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter and mentoring emerging artists, Lauderdale continues leading his band, The Game Changers, creating music rooted in church hymns, bluegrass, country, and rock and roll.