The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage 12/30/16 Jim Lauderdale comes back to

Jim Lauderdale comes back to his roots with When Carolina Comes Home Again

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The Phantom Band Checkmate Savage 12/30/16 Jim Lauderdale comes back toThe Phantom Band's glorious, kaleidoscopic debut emerged, fully formed, in January of 2009 and took more or less everyone (apart from us) by surprise at just how epic, timeless and, well, fantastic it sounded. From the opening pulses of 'The Howling' to the fluttering fade out of 'The Whole Is On My Side', 'Checkmate Savage' plots a musical course that manages to be both surprising and strangely familiar all at the same time. A decade on from its