Van Jim Lauderdale worden op 3 augustus 2 albums uitgebracht, “Time Flies” en “Jim Lauderdale & Roland White”.
“Time Flies” is iets als een understatement voor Jim Lauderdale. Met tijdens de afgelopen 3 decennia bijna jaarlijks een album uitgebracht te hebben, kunnen we het hem wel vergeven dat het album “Jim Lauderdale & Roland White” nooit uitgebracht is doordat het op de plank is blijven liggen.
“Time Flies is a collection of my latest songs and is a different sounding record than anything I’ve made before,” Lauderdale says. “The title track ‘Time Flies’ was co-written with Mando Saenz, a great singer-songwriter from Texas. We wanted to convey that feeling you get as you realize time and lives go by fast.”
Het album “Jim Lauderdale & Roland White” is opgenomen in 1979 in de kelder van Earl Scruggs met mandoline speler Roland White. De opnames werden onlangs na bijna 40 jaar gevonden door Roland’s vrouw.
“I wasn’t able to get a deal for it at the time with my efforts. Several years later … I thought the time was right and called Roland to get the masters. Roland said, ‘I thought you had them.’ We couldn’t find them anywhere. A few months ago as Roland was leaving the stage after sitting in with me at the Station Inn, he said, ‘I think my wife found our tape at the bottom of a box,'” Lauderdale says of the lost recordings. “These two records being released on the same day are good bookends to me for the rest of my recorded work.”
