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Luther Dickinson

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

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.

Amy Helm: What The Flood Leaves Behind

by Doug Collette
July 31, 2021

Amy Helm possesses all the inner direction, motivation and independence of her father, Levon, the drummer and vocalist for The Band. As evidence of those inherent character traits, she projects her personality with no traces of self-consciousness not only in her collaborations--Sisters of the Strawberry Moon's Solstice (New West Records, 2019), produced by the North Mississippi ...

Love Me Madly

Label: Blue Elan Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Like the World Has Never Seen; Hey Love; Lose My Head; For A Little While; Gotta Be A Way; Misery With You; Love Me Madly; Give It Up; How My Dreams They Go; Fall In Love ; Answer The Phone.

Fall 2020

by Doug Collette
December 29, 2020

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. Heathcote Hill “the stories we are told" 311 Music 2020 Roots-music artists too often sacrifice ...

Eric Johanson: Below Sea Level

by Doug Collette
November 1, 2020

In choosing his side projects and production efforts, North Mississippi Allstars' Luther Dickinson has been as discerning as he has been diverse. Witness The Wandering, Sisters of the Strawberry Moon and New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers, to name just a few, and now add his collaboration with Eric Johanson to the growing list. The latter ...

Gina Sicilia: Love Me Madly

by Doug Collette
June 3, 2020

It is not to disparage Gina Sicilia in any way to say that she has come of age with her ninth album, Love Me Madly. Produced by North Mississippi Allstars' Cody Dickinson and prominently featuring Luther Dickinson, his sibling and co-founder of that group, the record carries some cosmetic similarities to the vintage sound of Philadelphia ...

ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival

by John Ephland
September 27, 2019

Krannert CenterELLNORA: The Guitar Festival Champaign/Urbana, IL September 5-7, 2019 It takes place every other year; every odd year. Going back to 2005, ELLNORA: The Guitar Festival, held in the University of Illinois' Champaign-Urbana' one-stop-shop Krannert Center, has been celebrating the works of an amazing array of plectrists from all walks ...

Colin Linden & Luther Dickinson: Amour

by Doug Collette
February 23, 2019

On Amour, Colin Linden (of Blackie & The Rodeo Kings) and Luther Dickinson (from North Mississippi Allstars) offer a collaborative paean to romantic love that is not entirely sentimental. Even on such an otherwise earnest effort, there is an inherent danger that might come across as campy, but the two guitarists/vocalists demonstrate an abiding loyalty to ...