Luther Dickinson: Night Before theTour...
Luther Dickinson Talks Present, Past & Future
1/16/08
Things have been quite busy as of late. I've just about completed my interview with David Barbe, which should be up in the next few days. Last night I called my old friend Daniel Hutchens for a quote about Barbe I'll use in the interview introduction. Hutchens' band Bloodkin is finishing up their latest record at Barbe's studio. Barbe recorded this Bloodkin project on the heels of recording The Drive By Truckers' Brighter Than Creation's Dark. Danny was leaving town to begin a few shows out west. When he returns in a couple of weeks, we'll begin to talk about a few interesting things we'll highlight at Mystery & Manners. The Barbe interview proves beyond interesting...
Last night I also called another old friend, Stanley Booth, to tell him I was interviewing Luther Dickinson this evening. Booth got Jim Dickinson, Luther & Cody Dickinson's father, to play on the Rolling Stones song "Wild Horses" in Muscle Shoals during 1969. I am sad to report Stanley's wife--Alabama poet Diann Blakely--is hospitalized. I want to send out get well wishes to her. Jim Dickinson and Stanley Booth are old friends from Memphis and their friendship casts a long and wide shadow on the Memphis music scene.
It's snowing in Atlanta right now. It's strange seeing white roofs, trees, roads, cars and grass. One can only wonder if it will stick. I called Luther at home this evening while his wife cooked dinner. Tomorrow Luther takes his band The North Mississippi Allstars out on the road behind their latest album, Hernando, set for relase on January 22. Luther discussed growing up in Hill Country, Hernando, his new record with John Hiatt, joining The Black Crowes among many other things in an interview I hope to have up within the next week or so...rest assured, it will be worth the wait...
New reviews will be published beginning tomorrow. It looks like an interview with Jim Dickinson lingers on the immediate horizon also.
It's time to return to the task at hand. Check back in tomorrow...
James Calemine
JCalemine@swampland.com
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Comments
michaelbuffalo says...
Great interview. I look forward to hearing the Crowes with Luther... In the words of Borat, "NICE!!"