Content by tag "The North Mississippi Allstars"

Joe Restivo: Where's Joe?

By DOUG COLLETTE

The title Where's Joe? carries a deliciously ironic subtext because guitarist Joe Restivo has hardly been an unobtrusive figure on the Memphis music scene. On the contrary, after having schooled himself on the history of the area as a flashpoint for blues and jazz, as a member of the Bo Keys, Restivo began making regular club ...

Anders Osborne: Buddha And The Blues

By DOUG COLLETTE

NOLA songwriter/musician Anders Osborne's frequent and diverse studio and stage collaborations, including but not limited to those with Luther and Cody Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars and Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, all lead back to solo work like Buddha and the Blues, self-composed tunes rendered all the more pungent through musicianship tuned to ...

Summer 2019

By DOUG COLLETTE

Blues Deluxe is a regular column comprised of pithy takes on recent blues and roots-music releases of note. It spotlights titles in those genres that might otherwise go unnoticed under the cultural radar.

Johnny Shines
The Blues Came Falling Down: Live 1973
Omnivore Recordings
2019

The cumulative force ...

The Original Delaney & Bonnie (Accept No Substitute) and To Bonnie From Delaney

By DOUG COLLETTE

Delaney & Bonnie's best work functions as a primer on contemporary rock and roll, not to mention how the pair functioned as a catalyst to what's arguably the most prolific and productive instances of musical community that arose from the late Sixties and early Seventies. And even if the following two selections are the sole titles ...

Meet Doug Collette

By AAJ STAFF

I currently live in: South Burlington, VT

I joined All About Jazz in: 2003

What made you decide to contribute to All About Jazz?

I wanted to hone my writing skills and offer my insight about music to the public via the web.

How do you contribute to All About Jazz?

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, ...

Doug Collette's Best Releases of 2011

By DOUG COLLETTE

In no particular order, but all artists display unusually high levels of imagination and creative courage here, rendering each album worth playing for years to come.






Brad Mehldau
Live in Marciac
(Nonesuch)





Pat Metheny

The Black Crowes: Croweology

By DOUG COLLETTE

Croweology is a reaffirmation of the versatility of The Black Crowes lineup as first presented on Warpaint (Silver Arrow, 2008). It also extends the group's reach into the realm of Americana, as introduced on Before the Frost/Until the Freeze (Silver Arrow, 2009)

In hearing this two-CD set, it's essential not to compare these new ...

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

By DOUG COLLETTE

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 ...

North Mississippi Allstars: Keep On Marchin'

By DOUG COLLETTE

The simplicity and passion at the heart of the blues become all the more impressive as successive generations (re)discover those virtues. The North Mississippi Allstars recorded their DVD, the inaugural title on their new label, in November of 2005 at the fan- and performer-friendly Vermont venue Higher Ground, and Keep on Marchin' documents an evening of ...