North Mississippi Allstars

North Mississippi Allstars – Up and Rolling (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:57 minutes | 910 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records

The tenth album from North Mississippi Allstars was inspired by a forgotten roll of film. Shot by Texas photographer Wyatt McSpadden, the images documented a Sunday in 1996 when Luther and Cody Dickinson showed the photographer around their native north Mississippi – a month later, the Allstars made their Memphis debut, using their father Jim Dickinson’s roots music concepts as a springboard for experimentation, and the rest is history.

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North Mississippi Allstars – Prayer for Peace (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:42 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Prayer for Peace is North Mississippi Allstars 8th studio album and self-produced by the Dickinson Brothers. It was recorded across the country at 6 different studios: including the famous Royal Studios in Memphis with Boo Mitchell & their legendary father Jim Dickinson’s Zebra Ranch in Hernando, MS. Special guests on the album include bassist Oteil Burbridge (Allman Brothers Band, Dead & Company), Graeme Lesh (Midnight North, The Terrapin Family Band), vocalist Sharisse Norman, bassist Dominic Davis (Jack White), and singer/fife player Shardé Thomas, daughter of Mississippi blues giant Otha Turner. North Missisippi Allstars is a 3 time Grammy nominated band for Best Contemporary Blues Album

The North Mississippi Allstars celebrate their 20th anniversary (21st, actually) by going all the way back to their roots. Prayer for Peace is a set comprised mostly of blues and folk covers played by Luther & Cody Dickinson assisted by a cast of friends and longstanding collaborators. While five tracks were tracked at Grand Royal Studios in Memphis with co-producer Boo Mitchell, the remainder of the 11 tunes were cut all over the country with a host of guest musicians.

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North Mississippi Allstars – Keys to the Kingdom (2011/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:45 minutes | 531 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Keys to the Kingdom is easily the most personal album recorded by the North Mississippi Allstars to date. Luther and Cody Dickinson lost their father, the legendary producer and musician Jim Dickinson, in late 2009. Along with fellow bandmember Chris Chew, the trio gathered together in the Dickinson family’s home Zebra Studios to record a tribute. The words “Produced for Jim Dickinson” adorn the back of the album Keys to the Kingdom CD music.

Despite the sobering circumstances, the band focused on their father’s motto – “I will not celebrate death” – as the m Keys to the Kingdom album for sale. o for the sessions Keys to the Kingdom songs. They gathered together a slew of family friends including Alvin Youngblood Hart, Mavis Staples, Ry Cooder, Spooner Oldham, Gordie Johnson, and Jack Ashford, among others, to cut a set of original material inspired by old-school Dixie-fried roots rock, Delta blues, funk, and R&B. The album features a single cover, a one-chord blues version of Bob Dylan’s “Stuck Inside of Mobile (With the Memphis Blues Again),” to fulfill a last request by their father. Keys to the Kingdom album for sale by North Mississippi Allstars was released Mar 15, 2011 on the Songs Of The South label.

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North Mississippi Allstars – Hernando (2008/2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 40:29 minutes | 444 MB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

Fittingly named after the Mississippi town in which Cody and Luther Dickinson and Chris Chew all grew up, „Hernando“ is the roadhouse trio’s most personal record. It’s also their finest. Recorded at their own Zebra studios (aka “The Barn”) by Cody and Luther’s father, legendary Memphis producer Jim Dickinson, and released on their own label, Songs of the South Records, the album has a warmth and earthiness that suggest comfort in their own skin and surroundings.

Most importantly, though, „Hernando“ is the first North Mississippi All-Stars record to break out of the blues tribute-band mold and reveal their biggest influences: ’70s classic rock, ’80s metal, and ’90s grunge, the same stuff every pot-smoking teenager in America cut their teeth on. “Eaglebird” grooves like vintage ZZ Top; “Rooster’s Blues” redirects Jimmy Page riffs through an Alice in Chains prism; and “Keep the Devil Down” is a bluesy take on late Metallica. Herein lies „Hernando’s“ greatest pleasure: a blues roots band staying true to its real roots.

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North Mississippi Allstars – Do It Like We Used to Do (Live) (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 02:20:51 minutes | 1,57 GB | Genre: Blues
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Legacy Recordings

This live album spans the entire career of the North Mississippi Allstars to date, from 1996 to 2008. Guitar star Luther Dickinson and his drumming brother Cody (sons of famed producer/keyboardist Jim Dickinson), together with bass buddy Chris Chew, redefine the concept of blues rock over the course of these two discs, rescuing it from the lazy, third-hand vibe of so many ’70s bands, and investing it with the deep feeling and trenchant attack they learned from both the elder Dickinson and North Mississippi blues king R.L. Burnside himself. They tear up the house on songs associated with everyone from Burnside to Muddy Waters here, not to mention their original tunes.

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North Mississippi Allstars – Set Sail (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:22 minutes | 867 MB | Genre: Blues Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © New West Records

Luther and Cody Dickinson started the North Mississippi Allstars in 1996 as a loose collective of like-minded second-generation musicians who shared a local repertoire and regional style. Over the years the lineup shifted by design, and each NMA record offered up a different combination of collaborators. Set Sail finds the brothers working with Jesse Williams on bass and Lamar Williams, Jr. for the first time. Set Sail, the North Mississippi Allstars’ thirteenth album, follows 2019″s Up and Rolling, which was nominated for a Grammy Award for the Best Contemporary Blues Album in 2021. Set Sail continues the band’s tradition of creating roots music that displays remarkable variety. With their latest record, NMA are able to build upon their self-described sound of Primitive Modernism. A melding of the new and the old, traditional and futuristic, crafted lyrics and improvisational music.
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