Jim Lauderdale

Jim Lauderdale plays McGonigel's Mucky Duck on Thursday, February 11, 2027. He's a two-time Grammy winner and a songwriter who's spent decades working behind the scenes as much as in the spotlight. In the industry, he's known as a 'songwriter's songwriter'—the kind of writer other artists go to when they need something that hits right.

Since 1986, Lauderdale has put out 37 albums of roots music that pull from country, bluegrass, soul, R&B, and rock. That blend of styles helped pave the way for the Americana movement as it exists today, and he's spent his career crossing those same lines. He's written or co-written modern classics for some of the biggest names in the business, and he's worked with a long list of artists across the country and roots spectrum: Ralph Stanley, Elvis Costello, George Strait, Buddy Miller, Lucinda Williams, John Oates, Solomon Burke, Lee Ann Womack, Old Crow Medicine Show, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Blake Shelton, the Dixie Chicks, Vince Gill, Patty Loveless, and Gary Allan. If you've spent any time listening to country or Americana over the last few decades, there's a good chance you've heard his work without even knowing it.

Outside of the stage, he co-hosts The Buddy & Jim Show weekly on SiriusXM with Buddy Miller, and the Americana Music Association honored him with the WagonMaster Lifetime Achievement Award. This show is a solo bill, with Lauderdale as the only name on the poster. It's a chance to hear a songwriter who's spent more than forty years writing for other people finally taking center stage.

The show is at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk St, Houston, TX 77098, and it starts at 8 PM.