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Although they may mix elements of hip-hop, metal, and alternative rock into their repertoire, the North Mississippi Allstars are really a power blues trio whose members lean heavily on the kind of Mississippi folk-blues numbers they learned firsthand from the likes of R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Othar Turner, an approach that has given the NMA a solid grounding in local blues history as well as a solid sense of place, and by understanding and embracing the local North Mississippi modal drone approach, the Allstars have inherited a perfect springboard into a loose, ragged, but powerfully tight sound that somehow manages to seem both reverently traditional and completely contemporary at the same time. This set chronologically collects live highlights of the band's first ten years together over the course of two discs and adds a third DVD disc that documents the band's history. It's powerful stuff, rocking like Mississippi thunder and then turning as delicate as Mississippi rain at times, and in many ways, this might be the best release from the band yet, particularly since it captures the NMA in their natural habitat -- live and on fire. Highlights abound, including a wonderful version of Mississippi Fred McDowell's "I'm in Jail," a stark take on the NMA original "Sugartown," and an eye-opening stomp through J.B. Lenoir's wry "Down in Mississippi," but the best of all is a quick, blisteringly ragged version of Charley Patton's "Mississippi Boll Weevil Blues." Stripped down and raw, it thunders along on Cody Dickinson's drums, throwing dynamics to the wind until the end, when it winds wistfully away on Luther Dickinson's slide guitar work. It's a wonderful rendition, and it reestablishes the past in the present without doing damage to either, a balancing act that the NMA do as well as anyone currently on the rock or blues scenes. This set will burn your house down. Guaranteed.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
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Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Fred McDowell, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Fred McDowell, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - Johnny Lee Moore, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Roebuck "Pops" Staples, Composer, Lyricist - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - Otha Turner, Composer, Lyricist - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - R.L. Burnside, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Fred McDowell, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - Jimmy Reed, Composer, Lyricist - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - RL Boyce, Composer, Lyricist - Duwayne Burnside, Guitar
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Fred McDowell, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - Duwayne Burnside, Guitar
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist - Duwayne Burnside, Guitar
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Ed Lewis, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - Robert Lee Burnside, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - Robert Lee Burnside, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
DISC 2
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Charlie Patton, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - J.B. Lenoir, Composer, Lyricist - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - Preston Foster, Composer, Lyricist - Robert Randolph, Steel Guitar - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - JIM DICKINSON, Keyboards, Vocal - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - Jimi Hendrix, Composer, Lyricist - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - Junior Kimbrough, Composer, Lyricist - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - Jack Dupree, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - Cody Dickinson, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist - Steve Malcolm, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer - NMA, Composer, Lyricist
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Not Documented, Producer - Traditional, Composer, Lyricist - North Mississippi Allstars, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Brad Blackwood, Mastering Engineer - Kevin Houston, Mixing Engineer
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records
Album review
Although they may mix elements of hip-hop, metal, and alternative rock into their repertoire, the North Mississippi Allstars are really a power blues trio whose members lean heavily on the kind of Mississippi folk-blues numbers they learned firsthand from the likes of R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, and Othar Turner, an approach that has given the NMA a solid grounding in local blues history as well as a solid sense of place, and by understanding and embracing the local North Mississippi modal drone approach, the Allstars have inherited a perfect springboard into a loose, ragged, but powerfully tight sound that somehow manages to seem both reverently traditional and completely contemporary at the same time. This set chronologically collects live highlights of the band's first ten years together over the course of two discs and adds a third DVD disc that documents the band's history. It's powerful stuff, rocking like Mississippi thunder and then turning as delicate as Mississippi rain at times, and in many ways, this might be the best release from the band yet, particularly since it captures the NMA in their natural habitat -- live and on fire. Highlights abound, including a wonderful version of Mississippi Fred McDowell's "I'm in Jail," a stark take on the NMA original "Sugartown," and an eye-opening stomp through J.B. Lenoir's wry "Down in Mississippi," but the best of all is a quick, blisteringly ragged version of Charley Patton's "Mississippi Boll Weevil Blues." Stripped down and raw, it thunders along on Cody Dickinson's drums, throwing dynamics to the wind until the end, when it winds wistfully away on Luther Dickinson's slide guitar work. It's a wonderful rendition, and it reestablishes the past in the present without doing damage to either, a balancing act that the NMA do as well as anyone currently on the rock or blues scenes. This set will burn your house down. Guaranteed.
© Steve Leggett /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 27 track(s)
- Total length: 02:20:37
- Main artists: North Mississippi Allstars
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Legacy Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
(P) 2009 Songs of the South Records LLC.
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