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Shake Hands With Shorty (CD)

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North Mississippi Allstars Artist Snapshot:

Brothers Cody and Luther Dickinson are the sons of producer/songwriter and all-around Memphis legend Jim Dickinson. Equipped with their father's blues-based sense of eclecticism, during the 1990s the brothers honed their chops playing in punk bands, doing session work for the likes of the Replacements and Billy Lee Riley, and getting hands-on coaching from blues legends like R.L. Burnside. This amazing pedigree has made the North Mississippi Allstars one of the most confidently free-wheeling groups on the jam band circuit, embodying a grittier, tougher sound than other more hippie-inspired bands within the scene's ranks.

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DISC 1 for Shake Hands With Shorty (CD) Album By North Mississippi Allstars (Ar...
1   Shake Em On Down
2   Drop Down Mama
3   Po Black Maddie
4   Skinny Woman
5   Drinking Muddy Water
6   Goin' Down South
7   K.C. Jones (On The Road Again)
8   Station Blues
9   Someday Baby
10   All Night Long
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (4/27/00, p.75) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...Their shambling Cream-colored shuffles add some twists to the trancy hill-country boogie identified with R.L. Burnside and the late Junior Kimbrough..."
Entertainment Weekly (5/19/00, p.75) - "...The rich dirt of delta blues reverberates in every slip of their slide guitars....these retro blues sound utterly new." - Rating: B+
Q (8/00, p.102) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Rootsy, rocking blues....Their energized, driving style is straight out of the present...and so good that the limitations of a trio are rarely evidenced..."
Living Blues (7-8/01, p.19) - Rated as "Best Blues Debut Album of 2000" in LB's 2001 Critics' Awards.
No Depression (7-8/00, p.103) - "...A watershed of contemporary blues-rock....a dynamic package that reasserts the relevance of Southern rock..."
Mojo (Publisher) (8/00, p.99) - "...It's rollicking good fun...poised on the cusp where country-blues recieved its first jolts of electricity..."

Title Note

North Mississippi Allstars: Luther Dickinson (vocals, acoustic, electric, slide, & lap steel guitars, mandolin); Cody Dickinson (vocals, guitar, drums, programming); Chris Chew (vocals, bass).

Additional personnel: Alvin Youngblood Hart, Steve Selvidge, Jimbo Mathus (guitar); East Memphis Slim (piano); Richard "Hombre" Price, Garry Burnside (bass); Cedric Burnside (drums); Otha Turner (cane fife); Jimmy Crosthwait (washboard); Tate County Singers, Harmony Four (background vocals).

Recorded at Zebra Ranch Studios, Tate County, Mississippi in 1999. Includes liner notes by Larry Brown.

SHAKE HANDS WITH SHORTY was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album.

Luther and Cody Dickinson, guitarist and drummer respectively for the hotter-than-Hades electric blues boogie trio the North Mississippi All Stars, have a tough rock & roll bloodline to live up to. Their father Jim is among the grandest and most multi-faceted figures to emerge from the Memphis music scene in the last 40 years, playing piano and producing records for a vast cross-section of legends, superstars and the historically notorious. The All Stars' sparkling debut, SHAKE HANDS WITH SHORTY, delivers hip swaying, juke joint blues boogie with teeth and bite.

Luther Dickinson's fingerpicking and bottleneck slide are the star attractions at these proceedings. While Cody and bassist Chris Chew lock down the simmering bottom, Luther slips and slides over the groove, glowing with exultant dancing lines that quote Duane Allman on "Po Black Maddie," and reeling and rocking like a freight train on "Goin' Down South." The syncopation points to the dance-floor even when the All Stars invoke their acoustic heritage; their take on Furry Lewis' "KC Jones (On the Road Again)" is a tragic story told with a sunny enthusiasm that must make their pappy proud.

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