One of the top songwriters in Nashville, Lauderdale is an amazingly prolific tunesmith whose songs have been recorded by Patty Loveless, George Strait and Vince Gill, among others. He is also a quietly charismatic performer and a distinctive vocalist with a plaintive, instantly recognizable drawl. . . . On Persimmons he gives us his most relaxed, rawest-sounding album yet. Like It,' a lament masquerading as a good-time shuffle. Persimmons is as unvarnished an album as Lauderdale is likely to make.
Persimmons is ripe with great songs and thoughtful performances. . . .
Jim's got an amazing ear for melody. Man, what a record. Lauderdale can do and does no wrong.