Results for "Luther Dickinson"

Luther Dickinson

Most Of The Time

By Peter Parcek

Label: Lightnin' Records
Released: 2026

Peter Parcek: Most Of The Time

by Doug Collette
August 14, 2026

The contemporary blues community is densely populated with posers long on affectation and short on authenticity. Not so Peter Parcek for whom the blues carries truths that resonate in such a deep and abiding way that his own musical articulations, plus those of kindred spirits within and without the genre, become expressions straight from the heart ...

Ghalia Volt: Burn The House Down

by Doug Collette
May 17, 2026

It is certainly no coincidence that Ghalia Volt's adopted moniker suggests power, specifically the electric sort. Anglicized from the original Belgian, the name intimates dynamism, the likes of which have similarly pervaded her previous albums, such as One Woman Band (Ruf Records, 2021), though not to the same degree as Burn The House Down. The music ...

Blues With A Feeling: Luther Dickinson & JD Simo; Charlie Hunter & Jubu Smith; Mick Fleetwood & Jake Shimabukuro

by Doug Collette
September 24, 2024

The blues is more about feel than form, but even so, the genre has its readily-recognizable structures. The A-A-B lyric format, shuffles in varying tempos and the 12-bar configuration are all stock-in-trade frameworks. Still, the essential simplicity of the blues lends itself to innumerable variations and so it is with these contemporary collaborative works of Luther ...

MEM_MODS Vol. 1

By MEM_MODS

Label: Peabody Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Capricorn Catastrophe; Three On The Tree; Feathers On A House Cat; Congressional Tadpole; Harmolodica; Knotty Pine Kitchen; Midtown Miscommunication; Sonoma Smashup; Sparkle Skate; Cootie Party; Perseveration Blues; Horn Lake Hookup.

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 ...

MEM_MODS: MEM_MODS Vol. 1

by Doug Collette
May 20, 2023

Modern bluesman extraordinaire Luther Dickinson is always doing something interesting inside or outside of the recently reconfigured North Mississippi Allstars. He is one of the Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, produced and played on the stellar LP by Sisters of the Strawberry Moon, Solstice (New West Records, 2019), and collaborated with Colin Linden on Amour (Stony Plain, ...

Voices of Mississippi at Jazz at Lincoln Center

by Nick Catalano
March 3, 2022

The research into music programming for concerts at Jazz at Lincoln Center has always been top-notch, providing important informational fodder for reviewers. Perhaps none has been as significant and revelatory as the material used for the February 25-26 concerts with a truly seminal group--Voices of Mississippi. The origin and nature of the blues and ...

Vol. 2

By Charlie Musselwhite

Label: Stony Plain Records
Released: 2021
Track listing: Blues for Yesterday; She’s About a Mover; Searchlight; Oh Lord, Don’t Let Them Drop That Atom Bomb on Me; Greens and Ham; Messin’ with the Kid; Black Water; Millionaire Blues; Can’t Stand to See You Go; Blue Guitar; Blues Is a Mighty Bad Feeling.