Buddy Miller Jim Lauderdale: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

There s something endearing, oldtimey and almost vaudevillian about Buddy Miller and Jim Lauderdale even the way they bill themselves as Buddy and Both veteran musicians are in love with country music in all its many forms and influences; their music incorporates the blues and bluegrass, rock n roll and a good deal of craft. Buddy Miller is the guitar player to hire if you re playing heartfelt, notsoshiny countryrock songs. Ask Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, with whom Miller toured for their Raising Sand tour, or Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin and Patty Griffin, who named their tour together Three Girls and Their Jim Lauderdale writes awardwinning country songs hits for George Strait, Patty Loveless and the Dixie Chicks. He ll once again host the Americana Music Awards alongside Miller, with whom he shares a radio show on Sirius XM s Outlaw Country Channel; that s where the corny humor comes in. You ll hear some of that in this Tiny Desk Concert, but you ll also hear musical merrym