Country great Jim Lauderdale plays Bend’s Silver Moon Brewing

When he picks up the phone for an interview with GO! magazine, Jim Lauderdale is somewhere in Los Angeles, where he’s winding down after a day of rehearsals for a star-studded tribute to the late country-rock icon Gram Parsons. One of Parsons’ closest collaborators, Emmylou Harris, is slated to perform. So are the Black Crowes, Margo Price, Grace Potter and other well-known figures in the field. As for Lauderdale, he’s singing harmony on a few songs with Elvis Costello, and Costello’s returning the favor on a song Lauderdale will lead. The veteran Nashville singer-songwriter takes a typically humble and practical approach to the whole thing. “I stay so busy, I have to do my homework (before) show time, just to make sure that I do good, you know?” Lauderdale said. “I don’t want to mess it up.” Rehearsal is important, of course, but Lauderdale seems likely to do just fine.

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