Jazz Articles about James Luther Dickinson

James Luther Dickinson/North Mississippi Allstars: I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone

by Doug Collette
October 23, 2012

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 ...