★★★★★
We all know the legendary songwriting duos of the 20th century: Elton and Bernie, Burt and Hal, Lennon and McCartney, Leiber and Stoller others. But in the 21st century there really haven't been any serious contenders when it comes to writing teams whose work will live on after they're gone, especially in an age of downloaded singles. Perhaps the closest thing we have to that status so far in these modern times is Jim Lauderdale and Robert Hunter...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Sky Crunch For all of the excitement over the musical partnership between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss or The Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin, the pairing of much-admired Nashville songwriter Jim Lauderdale with Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia lyricist Robert Hunter could top them all. The two esteemed songwriters are back with their fifth collaboration, the 13-track Carolina Moonrise...
- www.jambands.com
2012-12-19
★★★★★
Jim Lauderdale is a proponent of what might be called "roots bluegrass." No fancy jazz chords here, no Tex-Mex progressions or extended improvisations. Lauderdale makes his bluegrass the old fashioned way: by finger-picking like a lunatic while warbling about women, whiskey and women, not necessarily in that order. Carolina Moonrise is a collection of tunes that Lauderdale co-wrote with Robert Hunter, best known as the lyricist for much of the ouevre of The Grateful Dead...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-12-13
★★★★★
Sky Crunch For all of the excitement over the musical partnership between Robert Plant and Alison Krauss or The Steep Canyon Rangers and Steve Martin, the pairing of much-admired Nashville songwriter Jim Lauderdale with Grateful Dead/Jerry Garcia lyricist Robert Hunter could top them all. The two esteemed songwriters are back with their fifth collaboration, the 13-track Carolina Moonrise...
- www.relix.com
2012-12-07
★★★★★
Sugar Hill Records Over the past twenty years, Jim Lauderdale has established himself as one of the most accomplished musicians in the current Nashville country bluegrass scene, and his newest album Reason and Rhyme marks the continuation of a budding partnership with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter. Lauderdale and Hunter is a match made in Americana heaven, and Reason and Rhyme is the third album they have created together...
- www.jambands.com
2011-08-29
★★★★★
Buy it from Buy the CDJim LauderdaleReason And RhymeSugar Hill2011 This album is subtitled Bluegrass Songs by Robert Hunter and Jim Lauderdale, and it's the input from Hunter that makes it special. He was, after all, the lyricist for the Grateful Dead, and responsible for co-writing their folk and country-influenced classics, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, in the early 70s...
- www.guardian.co.uk
2011-08-15
★★★★★
Jim Lauderdale isn't your typical country singer -- he's recorded with folks ranging from Donna The Buffalo to bluegrass stalwart Ralph Stanley -- so the fact he's hooked up with Robert Hunter, former Grateful Dead lyricist, is just another day at the office for Lauderdale. Following up on the success of their 2010 Patchwork River album, the duo keep the songwriting flowing with a bluegrass followup, Reason & Rhyme. And flow it does...
- www.ink19.com
2011-07-25
★★★★★
After Jerry Garcia's death, no one would have pegged Jim Lauderdale as Robert Hunter's favorite co-writer, but Reason and Rhyme teams Nashville's song machine with the Grateful Dead lyricist once again. Last year's highly-touted collaboration Patchwork River was a roots-rock affair, and this time they get high and lonesome, with bluegrass featuring some of Music City's foremost pickers, including Mike Compton, Scott Vestal, Tim Crouch, and Randy Kohrs...
- www.austinchronicle.com
2011-07-11
★★★★★
Most country and folk music fans know the Appalachian murder ballad "Knoxville Girl". The song has been covered by everyone from old time acts like the Blue Sky Boys, the Wilburn Brothers and the Louvin Brothers to more contemporary performers such as the Lemonheads, Elvis Costello, and Nick Cave...
- www.popmatters.com
2011-01-20
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