2022 release. At any given time, you're likely to find Jim Lauderdale making music, whether he's laying down a new track in the studio or working through a spontaneous melody at his home in Nashville. And if he's not actively crafting new music, he's certainly thinking about it. "It's a constant challenge to try to keep making better and better records, write better and better songs. I still always feel like I'm a developing artist," he says. This may be a surprising sentiment from a man who's won two Grammys, released 34 full-length albums, and taken home the Americana Music Association's coveted Wagonmaster Award. But forthcoming album Game Changer is convincing evidence that the North Carolina native is only continuing to hone his craft. Operating under his own label, Sky Crunch Records, for the first time since 2016, Lauderdale recorded Game Changer at the renowned Blackbird Studios in Nashville, co-producing the release with Jay Weaver and pulling from songs he'd written over the last several years. "There's a mixture on this record of uplifting songs and, at the same time, songs of heartbreak and despair-because that's part of life as well," he says. "In the country song world especially, that's always been part of it. That's real life."

Tracklist:

That Kind Of Life (That Kind Of Day)
Friends Again
Keep It Real
Game Changer
Wishbone
Lightning Love
Our Happy Hour
We're All We've Got
Let's Make Some Memories
I've Heard Of That
You're Hoggin' My Mind
I'll Keep My Heart Open For You

UPC: 850030871701
Label: Sky Crunch Records
Release Date: 9.23.22
Format: CD

Jim Lauderdale - Game Changer (CD)