Jim Lauderdale Announces 'From Another World' West Coast US Tour for May 2020

After seventy shows across almost as many cities, including two trips to Australia, 2-time Grammy winning Americana legend Jim Lauderdale is continuing the US phase of his ‘From Another World’ tour with a string of dates across the West Coast this coming May.

“After the experience of taking this record around the world and back, getting to play with all these different musicians and to such a variety of audiences, I really feel like these shows in May are going to be the ultimate experience I can give my fans. I can’t wait to bring the tour out West” says Lauderdale.

The shows will feature the legendary singer-songwriter backed by a red hot band hand-picked by Lauderdale from across three separate countries, performing a selection of songs form across his formidable catalogue – from the hits artists like George Strait and Patty Loveless ruled the charts with in the 90s through to selections from this year’s acclaimed From Another World. 

“One thing I’m looking forward to doing in these shows is paying tribute to my late friend, hero and co-writer Robert Hunter. We’re going to do a mini-set of some of my favorite songs he and I wrote together, our way of bringing his spirit to the stage each night”.

You never know what to expect at a Jim Lauderdale gig, with recent shows featuring surprise duets, impromptu audience requests and guest horn sections briefly turning the show into a soul revue.

Lauderdale’s West Coast roots run deep, back to the 80s when he was a fixture of the Palomino scene in Los Angeles, alongside contemporaries like Lucinda Williams and Dwight Yoakam, raising the roof of the legendary North Hollywood country club night after night, and building the following that launched his career.

“I’ve got so many great memories of LA – it’s always a treat to get back. Playing songs like The King of Broken Hearts only a short drive from where I wrote them, seeing people in the crowds who used to pack out the Palomino decades ago, it makes it extra special.”

Lauderdale will be joined on all dates by special guest Imogen Clark, the acclaimed Australian singer-songwriter known to US audiences from her performances at the Americana Music Festival in Nashville and for her East Coast tour with Clare Bowen earlier this year.

JIM LAUDERDALE
FROM ANOTHER WORLD WEST COAST TOUR
MAY 2020

Wednesday 6 – Seattle WA, Tractor Tavern

Thursday 7 – Portland OR, White Eagle Saloon

Saturday 9 – Bend OR, Domino Room

Sunday 10 – Sacramento CA, Goldfield Trading Post

Thursday 14 – Costa Mesa CA, The Wayfarer

Friday 15 – Los Angeles CA, Zebulon

Saturday 16 – Tucson AZ, Hotel Congress

For all ticketing details and more info, visit www.jimlauderdalemusic.com 

ABOUT JIM LAUDERDALE

Jim Lauderdale is a 2-time Grammy winning Americana icon, a singer-songwriter whose unmistakable rhinestone-incrusted silhouette has been a symbol for creative integrity and prolificacy for thirty-one albums over decades of recording. He’s an A-list Nashville songwriter whose songs have ruled the country charts while recording an eclectic catalogue of albums that run the gamut of American roots styles. 

From the start of his career, Jim Lauderdale has been creating his own musical world. Too expansive, eclectic and creatively curious to fit into any prescribed genre boxes, he innovated what is now called Americana music, long before there was a term for it. Everything about the man and his music is classic and timeless, but he’s a total original. The McCartney-esque melodies sung in his aching high lonesome tenor, the fiercely authentic bluegrass songs with mind-expanding psychedelic lyrics… nothing about Jim’s music can be reduced to a single influence, and no other songwriter would fuse these classic strains of tune-craft into such unexpected but immediately satisfying combinations.

It’s no wonder that artists from Willie Nelson to John Oates line up to collaborate with Jim, hoping to snare some of that Lauderdale magic. After all, his songs have helped sell millions of albums for artists like George Strait, the Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless, Lee Ann Womack, Blake Shelton, Solomon Burke, Gary Allan and Vince Gill. Classic songs like ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends’, ‘You Don’t Seem to Miss Me’, ‘Hole in My Head’, ‘Halfway Down’, ‘We Really Shouldn’t Be Doing This’ and many more have come from his pen.