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Jim Lauderdale when Carolina comes home

3/11/2020

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​Jim Lauderdale (from the album When Carolina Comes Home available on Yep Roc Records)  (by Bryant Liggett)
Jim Lauderdale is an ace at nailing many of the traditions of Country music. He can rock a Nudie suit, pen love tunes to his home, and whip out a crying in your beer song. There’s more to the genre but those could be in the top three of the traits when considering the look and the feel of Country music, and on his latest release, When Carolina Comes Home, Jim Lauderdale gives a loving nod to the Carolina’s while also proving he has countless ways to write of your significant other walking out the door, leaving you wondering what the hell happened to what’s left of your heart.
‘The mountains and beaches I walk with you’ is a NewGrass nod to a Carolina home on the driving album opener and title track for When Carolina Comes Home Again The track is followed by a one, two, three punch of heartache as Jim Lauderdale sings of a ‘mountain crashing through my door, I’ll take that as a sign you don’t love me anymore’ on “As a Sign”. He quickly moves into a Classic Country territory for “Misery’s Embrace”, reminding us that embrace is in fact ‘a cold and lonely place’. The ballad of “The Last to Know” is aching and lonely with “Cackalacky” and “Mountaineer” bringing in some fun with an almost child-like charm, and Jim Lauderdale can “Spin a Yarn” with old-fashioned Southern storytelling, ‘the taller the tale, the bigger the fish’. Recorded at the highly touted Echo Mountain Recording in Asheville, North Carolina, When Carolina Comes Home is a masterful statement on Bluegrass and Country. The album features an all-star cast when Jim Lauderdale is backed North Carolina’s best, including members of Steep Canyon Rangers and Songs from the Road Band. 
 
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