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North Mississippi Allstars
Do It Like We Used To Do
Genres: Blues, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Someday, Baby - North Mississippi Allstars, McDowell, Mississip
2. I'm in Jail - North Mississippi Allstars, McDowell, Mississip
3. 18 Hammers - North Mississippi Allstars, Moore, Jonny Lee
4. Freedom Highway - North Mississippi Allstars, Staples, Roebucks
5. Shimmy Duo - North Mississippi Allstars, Turner, Otha
6. Goin' Down South - North Mississippi Allstars, Burnside, RL
7. 61 Highway - North Mississippi Allstars, McDowell, Mississip
8. Hey, Hey, Baby - North Mississippi Allstars, Reed, Jimmy
9. RL's Endless Boogie - North Mississippi Allstars, Boyce, R.L.
10. Crazy 'Bout U - North Mississippi Allstars, McDowell, Mississip
11. Up Over Yonder - North Mississippi Allstars,
12. Sugartown - North Mississippi Allstars, North Mississippi A
13. Be So Glad - North Mississippi Allstars, Burnside, Cody
14. Po Black Maddie/Skinny Woman - North Mississippi Allstars, Burnside, RL
15. Jumper on the Line - North Mississippi Allstars, Burnside, RL
Track Listings (12) - Disc #2
1. Mississippi Bollweevil - North Mississippi Allstars, Patton, Charley
2. Down in Mississippi - North Mississippi Allstars, Lenoir, J.B.
3. Got My Mojo Working - North Mississippi Allstars, Foster, Preston [2]
4. Hear My Train A'Comin' - North Mississippi Allstars, Hendrix, Jimi
5. The Meeting - North Mississippi Allstars, North Mississippi A
6. Goin Home ML - North Mississippi Allstars, North Mississippi A
7. Jr./Stay All Night/Lord Have Mercy/Stay All Night - North Mississippi Allstars, Kimbrough, Jr
8. Hippy - North Mississippi Allstars, Dickinson, Jim
9. Mizzip - North Mississippi Allstars, Dickinson, Cody
10. Keep the Devil Down - North Mississippi Allstars, Malcolm, Steve
11. Horseshoe - North Mississippi Allstars, North Mississippi A
12. Glory, Glory - North Mississippi Allstars, Traditional

CD Details

All Artists: North Mississippi Allstars
Title: Do It Like We Used To Do
Members Wishing: 5
Total Copies: 0
Label: Red Distribution
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 1/20/2009
Genres: Blues, Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal
Styles: Blues Rock, Roots Rock, Southern Rock
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 800314900320

Synopsis

Album Description

2009 three disc (two CDs + DVD) set. This retrospective includes two CDs that chronologically follow highlights of the Allstars' live performances over the band's first 10 years. The DVD features a full length documentary on the history of the band. Do It Like We Used To Do will please the hardcore NMA fans as well as any lover of American roots music, Southern Rock and Blues.

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CD Reviews

Veteran, Talented Blues-Rock Musicians

Art and Music | 02/17/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"The North Mississippi Allstars are veteran musicians who play standards and originals with imagination and energy. This CD offers a generous selection of tracks recorded at the band's many live performances over a ten-year period.

This band is tight and well-rehearsed, and its members have a good ear for authentic Mississippi roots blues music. In fact, they highly skilled at playing electric urban blues music convincingly. But overall, the group leans a bit more in the blues-rock direction and thus might be classified as a Southern Rock blues band.

The foundation of any song is rhythm, and more specifically the division of the beat. To give an example of how the Southern rock influence often guides the All Stars' approach to a song, the traditional shuffle blues "Someday Baby" is interpreted here in straight-eight time, the cornerstone rock rhythm.

The All Stars' rhythm section handles the standard variety of rhythms, including blues shuffles ("61 Highway"), straight-eight time ("Freedom Highway"), and sixteenth-note based rhythms ("Got My Mojo Working"), with taste and ease.

The influence of Billy Gibbons, Johnny Winter, Jimmy Vaughan and others can be heard in the solos (but that is not to say the fine solos aren't original). And the Lowebow cigar box guitar is a real pleasure to hear.

This would be a good CD for any fan of rock music, rock blues, or Southern rock. Even some electric urban-blues traditionalists might be quite pleased listening to this excellent group. There is a generous amount of good material here-not a bad song in the batch-and the price is a bargain.

Congratulations to the North Mississippi Allstars for their considerable talent and longstanding dedication to playing with verve and originality."

Allstar Roots

Bill | Washington - State | 01/29/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is a must have for any fan of the North Mississippi Allstars. The documentary DVD that accompanies the two CD set is excellent. A good insight into the band and what make these guys tick. The music is top notch as well with something from just about every previous album plus some nice covers. Including the DVD, you get three discs worth of great music, this is good deal - buy it!"

Luther is a guitar GOD!

Baberufus | West Jordan, UT USA | 03/06/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is an INDISPENSABLE album for all NMA fans!! It's not just some boring, run of the mill outtakes and bootleg-quality live recordings, it's all STELLAR-sounding live NMA at their best! And a DVD documenting their history to boot! A true treasure for all blues-rock fans!!

Luther Dickinson is one of the top guitarists on the scene today! Most guitar fans would probably say the same after listening to their previously recorded albums, but after listening to this one, it leaves all doubts out the window...fantastic guitar playing. Of course, Cody and Chris are rock solid as ever, but Luther really shines on this CD. He whips out some Hendrix stuff that is absolutely jaw dropping--you will swear you're listening to Hendrix himself--but at the same time he adds his own little touches. Luther already has a very distinctive style of his own on the guitar--he just salutes Hendrix on the side every once in a while on record--but man, can he play it!! On Disc 2 he just kills on "Hear My Train A Comin", but on Disc 1, he actually Hendrixizes on one of the standard R.L. Burnside cuts--that REALLY blew me away...

The NMA are a band that rivals ANYBODY else on the blues/rock/jam scene today, but they are very down to earth and appreciative of their fans at the same time, always willing to stick around and chat with lingering fans and shake hands with anybody--none of that rock star "meet and greet but only if you have a ticket" crap. I went to one of their shows at a local club a couple of months ago, and it just felt like a big party with your buddies in a band up there playing for you. Only in this instance the band is one of the best out there today! This 3-disc set is a deal you can't pass up!!!"