About a month into their Buddy and Jim Show on Sirius XM’s Outlaw Country station, Jim Lauderdale and Buddy Miller have announced a new country duets album entitled Buddy & Jim, due December 11 on New West Records. It’ll be available early (Nov. 23) at some independent record stores.
The album will include “I Lost My Job of Loving You,” a song debuted Wednesday night at the Americana Honors and Awards Show in Nashville, and “Forever and a Day,” a Lauderdale tune that served as an early single for Gary Allan in 1997.
Full track list below.
1. I Lost My Job of Loving You (track preview at CMT Edge)
2. The Train That Carried My Gal From Town
3. That’s Not Even Why I Love You
4. Down South in New Orleans
5. It Hurts Me
6. Vampire Girl
7. Forever and a Day
8. Lonely One in This Town
9. Looking For A Heartache
10. I Want To Do Everything For You
11. The Wobble
In other Jim Lauderdale news:
- New bluegrass album co-authored by Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, titled Carolina Moonrise, on September 25. Lauderdale previously collaborated with Hunter for 2004′s Headed for the Hills, 2010′s Patchwork River, and 2011′s Reason & Rhyme.
- The documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts is still in progress, with the first complete cut clocking in at 2 hours and 44 minutes. They’re now working on trimming it down until it’s in the vicinity of 1 hour and 30 minutes. You can follow the film’s progress on Facebook.
Prime Cuts: June 2011
Prime Cuts: March 2011
Prime Cuts: May 2011
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A freelance writer and humorist with an abiding love of country music, C.M. Wilcox's cutting, clear-eyed take on the genre has drawn the attention of Country Weekly, The Washington Post, and The Tennessean in the years since this site began. He lives near Sacramento and can be reached by email at CMW (at) countrycalifornia.com.
That documentary sure looks impressive, yessir.