DISCOGRAPHY 2001-2025 (27CD)
BIOGRAPHY
The North Mississippi Allstars were founded in 1996; a product of a
special time for modern Mississippi country blues. RL Burnside, Jr.
Kimbrough, Otha Turner and their musical families were at their peak;
touring the world, making classic records and doing the all-night boogie
at Jr's Juke Joint and Otha's BBQ Goat picnics -- the music and the
culture rich as the black Mississippi dirt.
Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi Blues legacy while playing and shaking it down at the juke joints with their blues ancestors.
Luther (guitar and vocals) and Cody (drums and vocals) joined up with bassist Chris Chew to form the core of their own band, The North Mississippi Allstars. Through the filter of generations of Mississippi Blues men, the Allstars pioneered their own blues-infused rock and roll and continue to do so.
The band hit the road with the release of their first record, Shake Hands
With Shorty, Grammy-nominated for "Best Contemporary Blues Album."
Bringing their hill country blues-infused rock and roll to stages all over
the country and the world (including multiple tours in Europe and Asia),
the Allstars quickly gained a loyal fan base, and to date have released
six full-length albums. The bands's third record, Phantom Record also
received a Grammy nod.
Electric Blue Watermelon, their newest release and third album to receive
a Grammy nomination, embodies the Allstars' own sound. It reflects the
band's old times and lives growing up in their musical community in North
Mississippi. "The record holds to the folk tradition of oral history," as
Luther Dickinson puts it. "Electric Blue Watermelon celebrates the lives
and legends of men who are folk heroes in my community.
If the traditions are passed down and kept alive, they can't help but
mutate and change." Electric Blue Watermelon is certainly a departure from
the blues tradition, but it is a record that reaches in the future and
back into the past. It's loud psychedelic southern folk rock blues.
NEW!
2004-Instores & Outtakes (EP) @FLAC+
2006-The Early Years @FLAC
2009-Do It Like We Used to Do (2CD) @FLAC24+
2013-World Boogie Is Coming @FLAC24+
2018-BDM Blues Dance Music (EP) @FLAC
2025-Still Shakin' (LP) @FLAC24-96
51 Phantom
NMA-2001-51 Phantom @FLAC
TRACKS
01-51 Phantom
02-Snakes In My Bushes
03-Sugartown
04-Lord Have Mercy
05-Storm
06-Freedom Highway
07-Circle In The Sky
08-Ship
09-Leavin'
10-Up Over Yonder
11-Mud
Shake Hands With Shorty
NMA-2001-Shake Hands With Shorty @FLAC
TRACKS
01-Shake 'Em on Down
02-Drop Down Mama
03-Po Black Maddie
04-Skinny Woman
05-Dinking Muddy Water
06-Goin' Down South
07-K. C. Jones (On the Road Again)
08-Sitting on Top of the World (A.K.A Station Blues)
09-Someday Baby
10-All Night Long
Polaris
NMA-2003-Polaris @FLAC
TRACKS
01-Eyes
02-Meet Me In the City
03-Conan
04-All Along
05-Otay
06-Kids These Daze
07-One To Grow On
08-Never In All My Days
09-Bad Bad Pain
10-Polaris
11-Time For The Sun To Rise
12-Be So Glad
Hill Country Revue
Live at Bonnaroo
NMA-2004-Hill Country Revue Live at Bonnaroo @FLAC
TRACKS
01-Shake 'Em Down
02-Po Black Maddie...
03-Jumper On The Line
04-Bad Bad Pain
05-Down In Mississippi
06-Never In All My Days
07-Boomer's Story
08-Psychedelic Sex Machine
09-Shimmy She Wobble
10-Friend Of MIne
11-Be So Glad
12-Snake Drive
13-Goin' Home Pt.2
14-Going Down South
Instores & Outtakes
(EP)
2004-Instores & Outtakes (EP) @FLAC+
Electric Blue Watermelon
NMA-2005-Electric Blue Watermelon @FLAC
TRACKS
01-Mississippi Boll Weevil
02-No Mo
03-Teasin' Brown
04-Moonshine
05-Hurry Up Sunrise
06-Stompin' My Foot
07-Bang Bang Lulu
08-Deep Sea Blue
09-Mean Ol' Wind Died Down
10-Horseshoe
11-Bounce Ball
Keep On Marchin
(2CD)
Live EP
(11.11.05)
NMA-2005-Live EP 11.11.05 @ALAC
TRACKS
01-No Mo
02-Bang Bang Lulu
03-Mean Ol' Wind Died Down
04-Run On
05-Teasin' Brown
06-Ship
07-Moonshine
08-Stompin My Foot
09-Horse Shoe
10-Pychedelic Sex Machine
The Early Years
Mississippi Folk Music
CD1
(Thanks to Gunther)
Boulderado
Live At The Fox
(2CD)
Hernando
NMA-2008-Hernando @ALAC
TRACKS
01-Shake
02-Keep The Devil Down
03-Soldier
04-Eaglebird
05-I'd Love To Be A Hippy
06-Mizzip
07-Blow Out
08-Come Go With Me
09-Rooster's Blues
10-Take Yo Time Rodney
11-Long Way From Home
Do It Like We Used To Do It
Vol I-Gone Lay It Down - Vol II-Preacher Say Amen
(2CD)
Live In The Hills
Vol.I-2010.06.26 - Vol.II-2011.06.24
NMA-2010.06.26-Live In The Hills I @FLAC
NMA-2011.06.24-Live in The Hills II @320 *
* Thanks to Gunther
Keys To The Kingdom
NMA-2011-Keys To The Kingdom @FLAC
CREDITS
Luther Dickinson (guitar, vocals)
Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards)
Chris Chew (bass)
GUESTS
Alvin Youngblood Hart (vocals, harmonica)
Jim Spake (clarinet, saxophone)
Spooner Oldham (piano)
Jack Ashford (tambourine)
Ry Cooder (guitar)
Mavis Staples (vocals)
World Boogie Is Coming
BDM Blues Dance Music
(EP)
Freedom & Dreams
Prayer for Peace
Up and Rolling
NMA-2019-Up and Rolling @FLAC+
Set Sail
Still Shakin'
(LP)
COLLABORATION
2017-I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone [Lazarus Edition] @FLAC
2 comments:
Thanks very much for this great example of the sound of the North Mississippi Hill Country Blues
Thanks Chris for the North Mississippi Allstars share love the raw sounds Great work
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