Onward Through It All

Jim Lauderdale | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 10, 1999)
• Original Release Date: August 10, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B00000JMFG
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #260,900 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You Just Know

2. I Already Loved You

3. Calico

4. Lost Sunset

5. Trust [Guiding Star]

6. Onward Through It All

7. It's Just Like You

8. Almost Next to Nothing

9. Please Be San Antone

10. Lonely Chill

11. We Really Shouldn't Be Doing This

12. What I Want You to Say

13. The One That Didn't Get Away

14. Understanding Everything

15. As If We Would Never Love Again

16. Still Not Out of the Woods

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enthralling..., November 17, 1999

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B. McGreevy (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Onward Through It All (Audio CD)

What a lovely surprise this was... The title song with one of my other favorite artists, Kim Richey, is luscious and intriguing... a great listen the first time and it just keeps revealing more turns of thought and feelings everytime i hear it. I could listen to Calico over and over again too. This disc has been part of my daily mix for almost 3 weeks now! I can't get enough. Saw Jim live twice in the past year and he's just a great performer too. You can tell that he's as grateful to be there singing as we are to be listening and singing along with him. Glad he's in this world, writing, singing and laughing with us. Couple this with his new one "I Feel Like Singin' Today" with Dr. Ralph Stanley for an excellent gift.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jim is the great secret in country today, December 28, 1999

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William T. Vogt Jr. (SOUTH TEXAS) - See all my reviews
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Just when I thought there was no "new" country music worth hearing and I had worn out all of my Merle, Willie, and Kris Cds, I found Onward Throught It All. It has everything you don't hear on today's country radio: great words and real tunes by great musicians. I can't get it off my cd player. I have just ordered his first two, can't wait to give them a spin. This had got to be my favorite cd of of the year. Everyone I have played it for has loved it. Buy two and give one to a friend!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great, great album, July 9, 2002

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Jeremy Baldwin "Radio Host" (Ypsilanti, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Onward Through It All (Audio CD)

Jim Lauderdale is a singer-songwriter who is better known for writing hits for others than for his own recording career. Jim has written for all sorts of mainstream country stars including George Strait and the Dixie Chicks and he is well liked and respected within Nashville's musical community, but relatively unknown to the outside world. That is a shame because he is not only a great songwriter, but also an amazing singer who surely interprets his own songs better than anybody else.

Onward Through It All is Lauderdale's most recent solo album, although he has more recently released a duet album with Ralph Stanley called I Feel Like Singing Today. There are 16 songs on this latest disc and everyone of them is a gem. Lauderdale understands the conventions of country music so well that he can employ them in such a way as to make a song that you have never heard before sound like an old favorite. This is not to say that these songs are derivitive or faceless. Lauderdale singing voice is great and the arrangements are stellar. Julie and Buddy Miller as well mandolinist David Grisman sit in on various cuts, but Lauderdale is the center of the disc. His writing runs the
gamut between aching ballads like "I Already Loved You" to rockers like "Still Not Out of the Woods". His subject matter is often more philosophical than your average fare on cuts like "Understanding Everything" and "Trust(Guiding Star)the latter of which is a collaboration with Grateful Dead lyricist, Robert Hunter.

Unfortunatley, Lauderdale seems to tour infrequently which may be part of the reason he is largely unknown, but if you enjoy Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams or just country music with integrity be sure to check out this excellent release