North Mississippi Allstars Songs Ranked
North Mississippi Allstars is an American blues and southern rock band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is currently composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar, lowbrow, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards, electric washboard, vocals). Their most recent album Up and Rolling was released in 2019. The group was formed in 1996 by brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson (sons of Memphis musician/producer Jim Dickinson), along with bassist Chris Chew, with the intention of combining the blues and bluegrass of the North Mississippi region with rock and other modern forms. Their first album Shake Hands with Shorty was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Their later albums 51 Phantom and Electric Blue Watermelon have received nominations in the same category. The group also won a Blues Music Award for Best New Artist Debut in 2001. Here are all of North Mississippi Allstars songs ranked.
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10. Freedom Highway (51 Phantom, 2001)
“Superb blues guitar. “Freedom Highway” is a highlight, and also sounds great live. All these tune have a nice mellow jammin’ blues feel. Talk about feel good, happy music!!! Great videography, too!!!”
9. Up and Rolling (Up and Rolling, 2019)
“Luther Dickinson has matured unlike any musician I can recall. His guitar playing just keeps getting better and better. The musicians that that he has brought into the fold is unbelievable. We all have R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and, of course, Jim Dickinson to thank for this amazing amazing group of musicians, family as we call it down South.”
8. Po Black Maddie (Shake Hands with Shorty, 2000)
“This song is on my internal soundtrack man, I literally think to this beat. The trio’s first album and where they already leave their mark for their way of doing things. And it is that it is a group that sounds classic, old and at the same time current.”
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7. Rollin ‘n Tumblin (World Boogie Is Coming, 2013)
“A real musician can make it with anything that makes noise! One of my all-time favorites! This is raw music at its best. I loved it. Virtuosos at their respective weird instruments! All the elements come together in a tour-de-force of inspired amateurism!”
6. JR (World Boogie Is Coming, 2013)
“This band will always rock, absolute talent, the corny jamband scene, should just binge on these dudes and realize that NMA… has always been true. Amazing ripping talent”
5. Shake ‘Em On Down (Shake Hands with Shorty, 2000)
“This record caused something of a stir when it came out, Noel Gallagher was heard eulogising, and it recieved universally good reviews in the monthly music mags of the time.”
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4. Long Haired Doney (Prayer for Peace, 2017)
“This is the best track from Missisippi Allstars I ever heard…different sound. Fantastic. More, much more like this please. And duplicate the sound exactly. Everything from sound, playing and writing, powerful”
3. Mississippi Bollweevil (Electric Blue Watermelon, 2005)
“All the numbers are good, but ones to watch are the “Mississippi Boll Weevil” (great percussion and rhythms), The rap-influenced “No mo”, and the groovy “Stompin’ my Foot” (what a rocker!…with some rap inserts just to keep things interesting).”
2. Stompin’ My Foot (Electric Blue Watermelon, 2005)
“I was pleasantly surprised. This is a bloody good album! At it’s core, it’s swamp rock/blues in the best traditions of Allman Brothers and Lynard Skynard but modernised and with more variety. You wouldn’t call the lead singer’s voice musical, but with this kind of music that doesn’t matter!”
1. Drop Down Mama (Shake Hands with Shorty, 2000)
“The clean stratocaster guitar lines brings a touch of Memphis to the Mississippi blues sounds. You can tell the brothers were raised in music. By all accounts tremendous fun live, where blues still makes some sort of party music sense in the modern world, this album is a diverting but minor entry from the turn of the 21st century blues rock revival.”
