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James Luther Dickinson/North Mississippi Allstars: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone
by Doug Collette
The music of I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone is as ghostly as the black and white cover photo of its principal. The North Mississippi Allstars provides appropriately earthy accompaniment to a front man who commands the spotlight in larger-than-life fashion.A little background helps enhance the focus on the portrait provided by this album, sufficiently vivid as it is. By the time of his death in 2009, James Luther Dickinson had become something of a griot of southern ...
read moreLuther Dickinson and The Sons of Mudboy: Onward and Upward
by Doug Collette
Luther Dickinson, a founding member of The North Mississippi Allstars and a guitarist recently recruited into The Black Crowes, is only one member of The Sons of Mudboy, an impromptu gathering of musicians offering a posthumous tribute to Dickinson's father, Jim. The group's name constitutes a further homage to the elder Dickinson, who fronted a band called Mudboy and the Neutrons in the 1970s. Jim Dickinson's solo recording career, rooted in Sun Studios session work in the 1960s, was in ...
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