Jim's Greatest Legacy

 Jim's greatest legacy are undoubtedly his

sons, Luther and Cody.  Carrying the music

of our neighborhood they learned from Jim,

Otha Turner, Junior Kimbrough, and R.L.

Burnside and family to the world with 

their band, 3 time Grammy nominated

North Mississippi Allstars, the "boys"

will be busy next week in Austin, TX at

the SXSW Music Festival.  Here is their 

schedule:

 

>March 13
The Parish – 12:30am

>March 14
St. David’s Episcopal Church – 11:30p (Luther only)
Tompkins Square Label Show

>March 15
Austin Convention Center (Room 12AB) – 12:30p
Panel: Life and Times of Jim Dickinson

San Jose Hotel – 7:00pm
South by San Jose

>March 16
The Continental Club – 12:30p (Luther only)
Mojo’s Mayham!

Auditorium Shores – 8:00p
Levon Helm Benefit (Luther/Cody guest sit ins)

Jim Dickinson's Legacy- Updated

Newspapers come and go.  Facebook is fleeting.
Hopefully this blog will be a more permanent
record of Jim's Legacy.  To sum up 2012, Jim had
three new records released and was posthumously
inducted with the inaugural group of stars into the
Memphis Music Hall of Fame, sponsored by the
Rock 'n' Soul Museum and the Smithsonian.
Move over, Elvis, Jerry Lee, and Howlin' Wolf!

Jim's live performance was recorded at the New
Daisy on Beale Street in 2006, backed by North
Mississippi Allstars with Jimmy Davis on rhythm
guitar and vocals.  Released by Memphis Interna-
tional Records in 2012, "I'm Just Dead, I'm not
Gone" reached #1 on Sirius Radio.

http://www.allmusic.com/album/im-just-dead-
im-not-gone-mw0002371647 to hear music

The great  label Arf Arf  Records put out Jim's
Knowbody Else cd called "Soldiers of Pure
Peace."  This was produced and engineered by
Jim at Ardent Records in 1967.  It is the previously
unreleased masterpiece by the band that later
became Black Oak Arkansas. Words cannot
describe the psychedelic fury uncaged in this
music but your ears will understand.

"With a decades-long career as an iconoclastic
musical polymath, Jim Dickinson needs little
introduction. However, his rarely-discussed
apprenticeship as a producer-engineer at Ardent
Studios in the late 1960s made Dickinson
responsible for many of the wildest and wackiest
sessions ever held in Memphis. Some excerpts
slipped out at the time on obscure singles on Stax
and elsewhere, such as the absurd version of
‘For Your Love’ by Honey Jug. “Whenever
anybody came into Ardent, it was obvious who
was going to do the crazy stuff, ”Dickinson
recounted to me several years ago. The bands
he produced there include the pyjama-wearing
Kinks-ish Wallabys of Jackson, Mississippi and
psychedelic hillbillies Knowbody Else, later to
become famous as Black Oak Arkansas."

About the new Ace Record, "Feeling High-The
Psychedelic Sounds of Memphis"
compiled byAlec Paleo
- See more at: http://acerecords.co.uk/
feeling-high-the-psychedelic-sound-of-
memphis#sthash.JCvizBHG.dpuf


Coming up for Jim in 2013 is a panel at SXSW
called "I'm Just Dead, I'm Not Gone- The Life
And Times of Jim Dickinson" on March 15, in
Austin, Texas.  Hope you can come.

There's lots more GREAT news- too fresh to
discuss.  Coming soon....

Another Great Jim Dickinson Song

 https://soundcloud.com/playgroundrecording/love-is-strange

NMA's website's news of Luther's Grammy Nomination

We are proud to announce that Luther Dickinson received

a Grammy nomination last night in the 'Best Folk Album' 

category for his solo instrumental album Hambone's
Meditations! 

Released last May through NMA's label Songs of the South

Records, Hambone's Meditations was born out of Luther's

passion for the acoustic folk and blues music of the 

American South that surrounded him growing up. Drawing

inspiration from acoustic heroes John Fahey and, more 

recently, Jack Rose, Hambone's Meditation features five 

original compositions and a reworking of a gospel medley. 

The result
is 6 powerful tracks from the heart and soul of Luther 

Dickinson.

John Fry and Al Kapone after the Ball.

Mary Lindsay Dickinson hanging out and having fun after Pat Kerr Tigrett's
Bodacious Blues Ball, 2012, with John Fry of Ardent Recording Studio and
the great Memphis artist, Al Capone.  John Fry engineered and Jim Dickinson
produced the cult favorite band, Big Star's final record- Big Star Third/
Sister Lovers.  Big Star was honored at the Ball with the Pyramid Award.
John presented the award to Jody Stephens, drummer for Big Star and long
time manager of Ardent.  As John pointed out in his address to the packed
crowd, "All three of Big Star's releases were included in Rolling Stone
Magazine's list of "The Best 500 Records of All Time."

What an honor it is to be associated with art of this caliber.

WREG Channel Three Video

The morning after Jim Dickinson's induction into the Rock'n'Soul/
Smithsonian Museum's Memphis Music Hall of Fame, Jim's wife of
forty-five years,  Mary Lindsay Dickinson, was invited to comment
on the event and why Memphis and the surrounding area is
home to such world-changing music.

Watch Mary Lindsay's appearance @

http://wreg.com/2012/11/30/mary-lindsay-dickinson/

Grammy nomination for Luther!

December 6.20.12

 Hambone's Meditations, Luther's solo acoustic record has been
 nominated for a Grammy!  It's on NMA's record label, Songs of 
the South, and is a first nomination for the label.

Thanks to all the folks who voted for Luther. What a great honor for 
him and Jim's legacy.