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 | James Luther Dickinson Dixie Fried First time on CD for this 1972 album from the best-known unknown musician Memphis has ever produced. As a bandleader, session musician and producer, his legacy stretches back to the early '60s, when he started out in g... more » |
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Album Description First time on CD for this 1972 album from the best-known unknown musician Memphis has ever produced. As a bandleader, session musician and producer, his legacy stretches back to the early '60s, when he started out in garage rock bands like Flash and the Memphis Casuals. He played the piano on The Rolling Stones' 'Wild Horses' and can be seen in the studio with the Stones in the film Gimme Shelter. Sepia Tone. 2002. Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsYes it is swampy honky tonk, but also deep soul food Bachelier | Ile de France | 10/11/2005 (5 out of 5 stars) "Add James Luther Dickinson to the pile of producer/artists whose influence is vast but whose recognition, except with cognoscenti, is minimal. He is in august company, and runs a North Mississippi/Memphis recording studio on par with Cowboy Jack Clements's outside Nashville. With the revival of attention in southern roots music prompted by the best selling "O Brother Where Art Thou?" soundtrack and live recording, it is surprising Dickinson's own contribution, now available on CD, is overlooked. For with this album Dickinson gives a voice more authentic than a mere preservationist. This is far beyond the earliest Dickinson sounds from the Sun-influenced "The Goat Dancers" period. Indeed, the guitar solo on "Wine" is a fabulous execution worthy of Junior Brown, while the jackhammer piano is full-on honky-tonk, and if it were not for Dickinson's bulk you'd think the Killer himself had kicked over the piano stool to rip it out. The drums can barely keep up, and the wet voices of backup singers already sneak in notes they will scream horizontally in the after show entertainment. And this is only the first cut on the album, not the best cut on the album. There are, perhaps, certain points of comparison with early recordings of "Little Feat," to which this reviewer can only respond: they stole it all from Dickinson." Lost Masterpiece rediscovered James Harrison | Melbourne, Australia | 05/19/2008 (5 out of 5 stars) "Originally released in 1972 this wonderful album's re release in 2002 has again appeared to have "slipped by the radar". A fantastic example of southern rock by this great american musician, mentor and producer who has worked with the greats including Dylan, Cooder, Rolling Stones to name a few. From the opening rocker-Wine, the ballads-The Strength of Love, the country romps Louise, Dixie Fried and Wild Bill Jones, the Blues-Casey Jones and O How She Dances this recording is a classic. The version of Dylan's John Brown has been used by Dylan in pre show soundtrack for his concerts. It is the definitive version of the song The man Dylan called "My Brother" when accepting his grammy for Time Out of Mind, after playing on same and assisting Dylan & Lanois with the production created this Classic Album 36 years ago and I have only recently discovered it, what a shame it took me so long." Dixie Fried: A Southern Recipe Masterpiece M. Gaines | Alabama, United States | 01/21/2003 (5 out of 5 stars) ""There were only a few other albums in the 1970s roots movement that even attempted to go this deep - the Flying Burrito Brother's Gilded Palace of Sin and Gene Clark's forgotten No Other come to mind - but none of them were such true products of the real roots they purported to spring from.
And the intensity goes up on the next track, a talking blues version of Dylan's scathing anti-war, anti-jingoist "John Brown." Over a funky Memphis groove that might have served as a template for Dylan's later Muscle Shoals Jesus phase, Dickinson, intoning like some sort of Delta Jim Morrison, recites the almost unbearable story of a mother's sick pride in her war-ruined son, while soprano sax and ghostly pedal steel keen out desolate obbligatos. -Dusted-How to describe JLD's first studio effort? Quite simply a masterpiece of every influence that ever excisted in the musical genre of rock. If you've gotten hold of his last effort "Free Beer Tomorrow: then this is your next stop. Endlessly eternal and forever deep. Get hold of this reissue before it disapears for another 20 years!" |
