Thursday August 21st, 2003

The North Mississippi Allstars live from Valley Arts Guitars

(photo by Danny Clinch)

Two time Grammy nominees the North Mississippi AllStars brought their psychedelic-hip hop-gut bucket-trance boogie to Nashville's Valley Arts Guitar store Wednesday, August 20, for an acoustic live-remote broadcast on local FM radio favorite Lightning 100. They kicked off the set with "Trance," an original song from their third CD, Polaris, to be released Sept. 9.

NMA mixes the hill country, roots music of Tate County, Mississippi, with genes inherited from legendary roots-rock producer Jim Dickinson (the Replacements, Big Star, Ry Cooder, Toots & the Maytals among other) and blues master R.L. Burnside. Dickinson's young, twenty-something sons, Luther and Cody, grew up in the studio with their Dad. "'Studio' was the first word out of my mouth," Luther said. R.L.'s son Duwayne joined the All-Stars September 2001 and brought a twin-guitar attack to NMA's sound and their second song of the radio set "Meet Me in the City."

They then launched into one of Cody's songs, "One to Grow On" which features the band's friend, Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher, on the CD version. "We met in London and he invited me to an Oasis session," Cody told the crowd and radio listeners. "When he heard the demo of "One to Grow On" he insisted on adding a vocal part and he sure did. Sorry he couldn't be here today," he joked.

Valley Arts Guitars
1121 Church Street
Nashville, TN 37203

Radio Lightning's David Hall 'Rocks Y'all' talks about the new album with the band.

Luther Dickinson tries out a DM-33 Metal body Dobro from OAI

Bassist Chris Chew playing an Epiphone El Capitan acoustic bass

Duwayne Burnside, on his old Epiphone Blues Master plays along with
Cody Dickinson, who has a Gibson J-185 12-string.

The band hung out after the show to meet fans and sign autographs

The band shows off some new Epiphone Masterbilt acoustics.

Luther, Valley Arts General Manager Mickey Butler, Chris, Epiphone's Mike Voltz,
Duwayne (with his 'new shirt') and Cody