This is the first post of
2014 for Jim Dickinson’s Legacy blog. It
is way cool to be
welcoming folks from the
International Blues Competition, who come to soak up the soul of Memphis and
the blues music and musicians that we adore.
It is a thrill to announce that part of the festivities surrounding the
IBC include a reading by Mary Lindsay Dickinson of excerpts from her late husband’s memoirs
on Friday, January 24, 2014 at 2pm, upstairs at A Schwab’s store on world-
famous Beale Street.
The reading includes film,
music, and pics from blues icons like the Memphis Jug Band, Bo Diddley, the
Rolling Stones, Alex Chilton, and Jim’s sons, Luther and Cody Dickinson of the
North Mississippi Allstars. You’ll
witness the birth of rock’n’roll through the eyes of Jim, who enjoyed every
minute of it, even though he had to miss meeting his friend Bob Dylan at
Bonnaroo… but more about that later-
As the Austin Chronicle
reported last March at South by Southwest celebrating a panel on Jim Dickinson,
“Whether you realize it or not, Jim had been at the heart of rock & roll
from its inception until his death at 67 in 2009. Musician on historic records
– his piano is on the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" – and producer
for countless more (Big Star'sThird, the Replacements' Pleased
to Meet Me).
The panel's title – called
“I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone, his self-composed epitaph – emphasizes the truth
that Dickinson always told, sometimes to his detriment.”
