Induction Year: 2025
Birth Name: James Russell Lauderdale
Birth Date: 04-11-1957
Place of Birth: Troutman, North Carolina
Jim Lauderdale was raised in Due West, SC. After college graduation in 1979, he made his way to Nashville for a few months before moving on to New York.
By the mid-1980s, he had settled in Los Angeles and was gaining traction as a writer and performer. Then, in the early 1990s, Jim returned to Nashville, where he began to land early cuts by George Strait. Before long, Jim’s songs were topping the Country chart: “Gonna Get A Life” by Mark Chesnutt, “Halfway Down” by Patty Loveless, and “You Don’t Seem To Miss Me” by Loveless & George Jones. Near the end of the decade, Strait added the Top 5 hits “We Really Shouldn’t Be Doing This” and “What Do You Say To That” to Jim’s growing list of songwriting accolades.
As an Americana recording artist, Jim’s career spans 39 albums with two Grammy Award wins for Bluegrass Album of the Year and Bluegrass chart hits such as “Mighty Lonesome,” “One Blue Mule,” and “Iodine.” His collaborations with Ralph Stanley yielded the Bluegrass Top 10 “I Feel Like Singing Today” and “She’s Looking At Me,” the 2002 Song of the Year from the Americana Music Association (AMA), which also honored Jim as its 2002 Artist of the Year. In 2016, the AMA presented him with its “Wagonmaster” Lifetime Achievement Award.
"Cruel Wind And Rain"
(written with Robert Hunter)
| Jim Lauderdale | 2012 | #25 Bluegrass |
"Don't Make Me Come Over There And Love You"
(written with Carter Wood)
| George Strait | 2001 | #17 Country |
"Gonna Get A Life"
(written with Frank Dycus)
| Mark Chesnutt | 1995 | #1 Country |
"Halfway Down"
| Patty Loveless | 1995 | #6 Country |
"I Feel Like Singing Today"
| Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys | 2000 | #9 Bluegrass |
"I Gotta Get To You"
(written with Blaine Larsen, Jimmy Ritchey)
| George Strait | 2010 | #3 Country |
"Iodine"
(written with Robert Hunter)
| Jim Lauderdale | 2013 | #18 Bluegrass |
"Long And Lonesome Letting Go"
(written with Bob Minner)
| Jim Lauderdale & The Po' Ramblin' Boys | 2024 | #18 Bluegrass |
"Lost In The Lonesome Pines"
| Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys | 2003 | #26 Bluegrass |
"Mighty Lonesome"
| Jim Lauderdale | 2007 | #17 Bluegrass |
"One Blue Mule"
| Jim Lauderdale | 2008 | #17 Bluegrass |
"Quit That"
(written with Candace Randolph)
| Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys | 2002 | #21 Bluegrass |
"She Used To Say That To Me"
(written with John Scott Sherrill)
| Rick Trevino | 1995 |
| Jim Lauderdale | 1998 |
| Wade Hayes | 2000 |
| Danni Leigh [as "He Used To Say That To Me"] | 2001 |
| George Strait | 2003 |
"She's Looking At Me"
2002 Americana Music Association Song of the Year
| Jim Lauderdale, Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys | 2002 |
"That's How The Cookie Crumbles"
| Jack Cooke | 2007 | #10 Bluegrass |
"The King Of Broken Hearts"
| Jim Lauderdale | 1991 |
| George Strait | 1992 |
| Mark Chesnutt | 1995 |
| Lee Ann Womack | 2008 |
"Twang"
(written with Kendell Marvel, Jimmy Ritchey)
| George Strait | 2010 | #14 Country |
"We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This"
| George Strait | 1998 | #4 Country |
| Jim Lauderdale | 1999 |
"What Do You Say To That"
(written with Melba Montgomery)
| Jim Lauderdale | 1998 |
| David Ball | 1999 |
| George Strait | 1999 | #4 Country |
"You Don't Seem To Miss Me"
| Patty Loveless w/ George Jones | 1997 | #14 Country |
Induction Year: 2025
