{"id":199393,"date":"2026-03-20T16:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199393\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T16:48:11","slug":"country-americana-king-jim-lauderdale-returns-to-tampa-on-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199393\/","title":{"rendered":"Country-Americana king Jim Lauderdale returns to Tampa on Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"355090\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/music-2\/country-americana-king-jim-lauderdale-returns-to-tampa-on-thursday\/attachment\/jim-lauderdale-press-photo-2-yep-roc\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jim-Lauderdale-Press-Photo-2-Yep-Roc-scaled.jpeg?fit=2560%2C1709&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1709\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Jim-Lauderdale-Press-Photo-2 Yep Roc\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Jim Lauderdale&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jim-Lauderdale-Press-Photo-2-Yep-Roc-scaled.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Jim-Lauderdale-Press-Photo-2-Yep-Roc-scaled.jpeg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1774025291_523_Jim-Lauderdale-Press-Photo-2-Yep-Roc.jpeg\" alt=\"A studio portrait of country and Americana singer-songwriter Jim Lauderdale against a dark grey background. The person has silver, shoulder-length hair and wears a vibrant, multi-colored floral western-style shirt with pearl snap buttons. They are holding a sunburst-finish acoustic guitar with a dark leather strap, looking directly at the camera with a steady, neutral expression.\" class=\"wp-image-355090\"  \/>Jim Lauderdale Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/chapelboromedia.s3.amazonaws.com\/uploads\/2020\/02\/21121957\/Jim-Lauderdale-Press-Photo-2.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Yep Roc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To kick off the 2020s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jimlauderdalemusic.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.jimlauderdalemusic.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Lauderdale <\/a>released an uplifting post-pandemic album, Hope. Last year, he tapped the Po\u2019 Ramblin\u2019 Boys in a return to bluegrass.<\/p>\n<p>In between those outings, however, was Game Changer, a 2022 honky-tonk record put to tape at Nashville\u2019s Blackbird Studios featuring songs he\u2019d written with bassist and longtime collaborator Jay Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCountry music is constantly evolving, but I\u2019ll always have a soft spot in my heart for steel guitar and a Telecaster,\u201d Lauderdale, a two-time Grammy-winner, said in a press release from that cycle. \u201cI have done my job on this record if people who love classic country feel like they can put it on, or have it in their collection, and it would fit right in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/jim-lauderdale-and-the-game-changers-21264625\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/jim-lauderdale-and-the-game-changers-21264625\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Jim Lauderdale &amp; The Game Changers play Skipper\u2019s Smokehouse in Tampa on Thursday, March 26 are still available for $25.03.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jimlauderdale.bandcamp.com\/album\/game-changer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Game Changer by Jim Lauderdale<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/mar-19-25-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mar. 19 \u2013 25, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Lauderdale Credit: Yep Roc To kick off the 2020s, Jim Lauderdale released an uplifting post-pandemic album, Hope.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[92201,1864,20235,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-199393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-jim-lauderdale","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-skippers-smokehouse","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}