Jazz Articles about North Mississippi Allstars

The North Mississippi Allstars: The Essex Experience Green - 2023 Old Stage Summer Series

by Doug Collette
August 5, 2023

The North Mississippi Allstars The Essex Experience Green 2023 Old Stage Summer Series Essex, Vermont July 29, 2023 After an afternoon of steady rain, comparable to but hardly so severe as those that caused flooding in the state of Vermont earlier in the summer, the clouds parted and the sun shone over the Green Mountains the evening of July 29th, allowing local blues savant and radio personality Mr. Charlie Frazier to introduce the North ...

North Mississippi Allstars: The North Mississippi Allstars: Keys to the Kingdom

by Doug Collette
February 6, 2011

Following a hiatus of sorts for The North Mississippi Allstars, during which time guitarist Luther Dickinson worked with The Black Crowes while drummer sibling Cody fronted his own band, Hill Country Revue, the group's reformation has fueled a fire within the music of Keys to the Kingdom. The music begins to flow in a rush of emotion, right from the beginning of “This A'Way," and “Jumpercable Blues," though a bit tongue-in-cheek, is a comparable torrent of feeling. “Ain't ...

North Mississippi Allstars at Highline Ballroom

by David Miller
March 2, 2010

North Mississippi AllstarsHighline BallroomNew York, NYFebruary 26, 2010As expected, in the best way possible. When my friend (a North Mississippi Allstars virgin) asked what we were in for as the Allstars took the Highline Ballroom stage on a snowy Friday evening in New York, I told her some specifics: drummer Cody Dickinson also plays the washboard; bassist Chris Chew is the most demonstrative of the bunch and brings some funky mojo to each show; and ...

The North Mississippi Allstars: Do It Like We Used to Do

by Doug Collette
April 27, 2009

The North Mississippi Allstars' youth belies its history, as documented on Do It Like We Used to Do. Over the course of two CDs and a DVD featuring archival material, interviews and concert footage, the band displays reverence for the music it plays, without ever taking itself too seriously.

Reasonably priced in skeletal packaging with colorful and information-laden graphics simulating a scrapbook, this three-disc set ostensibly covers the first twelve years of NMA history, from 1996 to 2008. Yet this ...

North Mississippi Allstars in Denver

by Geoff Anderson
February 15, 2009

North Mississippi Allstars Bluebird Theater Denver, Colorado January 31, 2009

It's just as well that the Bluebird Theater doesn't have any seats. When the North Mississippi Allstars play, no one would be sitting anyway. Their shows are basically a non-stop two-hour boogie fest. They play “country blues" that has a repetitive, sometimes funky, bass line with chords that don't always get into the classic I-IV-V progression. Some of the extended jams focused on ...