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Pop: hot ticket
By Times staff
© St. Petersburg Times
published July 4, 2002
The blues in their bones
Everything you've heard about the North Mississippi Allstars' live show is true. Those of us lucky to catch the band at this year's Tampa Bay Blues Festival know that the act, now a quartet, puts on a blistering performance, filled with blues boogie-woogie and jams that would have Phish phreaks swimming happily.
Led by greasy-haired guitar virtuoso Luther Dickinson, the Allstars plow through blues standards and originals with grit and grooves. Surely, Chris Chew's fat bass lines will get your booty shaking while Dickinson growls away on those lovelorn lyrics.
That's Luther's brother Cody Dickinson on drums, and music is all in the family with these guys: They're the sons of famed Memphis studio whiz Jim Dickinson. The Dickinson boys were punk rockers before they returned to their musical roots of post-Stax Memphis and blues. Now the Allstars blend the feistiness of the Minutemen with a woe like Howlin' Wolf's.
North Mississippi Allstars perform with the Beat Daddys at 6 p.m. Sunday at Skipper's Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Road, Tampa. $15 advance, $18 day of show. (813) 977-6474.
-- GINA VIVINETTO, Times pop music critic
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