Nashville singer and songwriter Jim Lauderdale has a music career that includes recording a 1979 album with bluegrass mandolinist Roland White that wasn’t released until 2018. Along the way, Lauderdale, who will be 69 in April, has put his name on a string of albums that includes the aforementioned collaboration with White and his 2011 full-length with Grateful Dead lyricist Robert Hunter, Reason and Rhyme.
Lauderdale’s 2025 homage to 1960s country, Country Super Hits Volume 2, is one of the prolific country-Americana auteur’s drollest efforts to date — he casts something titled “Artificial Intelligence” in a midtempo country shuffle. Like, say, fellow Nashvillian Joshua Hedley’s 2025 set of Western-swing-inflected country All Hat, Lauderdale’s new music has a light tone and a sense of humor. Country Super Hits is the kind of retro I can live with, and Lauderdale writes songs that sound like pastiches until you realize they’re getting through to you. Lauderdale also has a bluegrass album, The Birds Know, set for release in April. The April 6 show at Skinny Dennis continues his yearlong residency there, where he’ll play the first Monday of every month. He’ll be joined by The Game Changers, a crack band featuring guitarists Frank Rische and Craig Smith.
7:30 p.m. at Skinny Dennis
2635 Gallatin Pike
