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In the News (Tue 22 Dec 09)

  
  PCP : Jim Dickinson
Jim Dickinson : Grits, Hog Jowls, Blaze Foley, and the Birth of Psychedelia
Dickinson's first solo album, released in 1972 on Atlantic (who employed The Dixie Flyers), was entitled Dixie Fried, and has become a cult classic, one of the most endearingly off-center records in many fans' collections.
Dickinson is accompanied by his boys, Luther and Cody, nowadays better known as 2/3 of the North Mississippi All-Stars, both in their 20s and becoming nationally recognized as musicians and producers in their own right.
www.popculturepress.com /jimdickinson.html   (3677 words)

  
 - Hycroft Financial Partners (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jim has worked on domestic and international construction projects of every size and scope, from Northern Canadian oil and gas pipeline production facilities with the Bechtel Corporation, medium and large scale single family and multi-family residential developments and exotic luxury resort developments in the Caribbean.
Currently, Jim is co-founder and President of his own real-estate development firm, overseeing the acquisition and development of raw land, design of the homes and community infrastructure, and project management of the actual construction.
Dickinson is a sought after member of various Boards of Directors, for both commercial and philanthropic ventures, because of his insight into results-oriented projects.
www.hycroftfinancial.com.cob-web.org:8888 /JimDickinson.aspx   (278 words)

  
 Bob Frank Songs
Jim Dickinson, whose career was moving in a decidedly theatrical direction, appreciated the power of folk music (he’d first retired from rock and roll in 1959).
Jim Dickinson and Bob Frank have known each other ever since the early sixties — til Bob finally disappeared in the fog out in San Francisco.
Jim put this one on the album because Bobby Fisher said it was a hit song, and Jim learned a long time ago that when it comes to picking hit songs, Bobby Fisher has an inside link.
www.bobfranksongs.com /pages/keeponburning.html   (1850 words)

  
 Music | Southern accents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
When the band’s founding brothers, guitarist Luther Dickinson and drummer Cody Dickinson, were in their early teens, their father, the legendary producer and pianist Jim Dickinson, returned the family to the Memphis area "as part of my sons’ ongoing roots-music education," he explains by phone from their home in Coldwater, Mississippi.
Jim Dickinson’s musical roots are in the ’60s Memphis blues scene.
Like Cody and Luther Dickinson, Mathus took a while to discover his musical heart in a raw, distorted sound that could be coming from the open door of a juke-joint twilight zone.
www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/music/top/documents/02651819.htm   (3566 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jim Dickinson is an American record producer, pianist and singer.
Dickinson also played piano on The Rolling Stones' 1969 "Wild Horses" and on The Flamin Groovies' 1971 "Teenage Head" album." In 1972 he released his first solo album, Dixie Fried, which was a free-wheeling mixture of songs by Bob Dylan, Carl Perkins and Furry Lewis.
Jim Dickinson is one of a long line of eccentric and highly quotable Memphians; as he explained to an interviewer in 1992, "If you're not in the recording studio you might as well not do it, because you might get it.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jim_Dickinson   (384 words)

  
 CD Baby: JAMES LUTHER DICKINSON: Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jungle Jim & The Voodoo Tiger is the third studio album in 34 years from pianist/vocalist/bandleader/producer/pianist/session player/raconteur/cultural iconoclast Jim Dickinson and his Memphis International debut.
Jungle Jim & The Voodoo Tiger is a set of songs that Dickinson has collected over the years in, as he puts it, “the jukebox of my mind,” plus some new songs by writers he greatly admires.
Dickinson expects to tour upon the release of the album with Cody and Luther’s backing, bringing their skewed version of “family values” to the great American road.
www.cdbaby.com /jldickinson   (1078 words)

  
 Zebra Ranch Biographies
Jim Dickinson was born November 15, 1941, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Dickinson left the Dixie Flyers and returned to Memphis, recording his solo album, DIXIE FRIED for Atlantic.
Honored by local NARAS chapter with the Board of Director's Governor's Award in 1992, Jim Dickinson won Producer of the Year seven times before retiring his name from the competition.
www.zebraranch.com /jim_bio.htm   (471 words)

  
 Luther Dickinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Their father, Jim Dickinson, is a long time musician and producer who worked with everyone from Aretha Franklin to the Replacements to the Rolling Stones.
Jim is the producer of “Electric Blue Watermelon,” and it was his idea to bring in the many guest musicians on the new album, which include Robert Randolph, The Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Lucinda Williams, rapper Al Kapone, the late Otha Turner, and others.
Turner, one of the last of the rural fife and drum blues masters, died in 2003 at 94 years of age, Kimbrough died in 1998 at 67 years of age, and Burnside was 76 year old when he passed in 2005.
www.gritz.net /subscribers_area/inner_views/luther_dickinson_2006.html   (3365 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson: A Different Stripe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Jim Dickinson has a knack for being around when music history is being made.
Jim’s piano playing is etched in the collective consciousness thanks to his keyboard contributions to the Rolling Stones “Wild Horses” and Bob Dylan’s Time Out of Mind.
As a producer, he has maintained his edge for over four decades, as is attested by recent projects with Jim Mathus’ Knockdown Society, Jon Spencer, T-Model Ford, the North Mississippi Allstars (led by Jim’s sons Luther and Cody) and the forthcoming new album by John Hiatt.
www.harpmagazine.com /articles/detail.cfm?article_id=2708   (1115 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson : Dixie Fried - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Veteran producer Jim Dickinson had been well-established as a trusted producer and sideman by the time he recorded an album of his own in 1972.
Atlantic honcho Jerry Wexler had signed Dickinson and the Dixie Flyers, the label's house band for nearly all its soul recordings at the time, to record an album.
On Bob Dylan's "John Brown" Dickinson loses his way a bit, and his voice (at once hesitant and overzealous) trips him up in a number of places throughout.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,76158,00.html   (326 words)

  
 Midheaven Mailorder | Browse by Artist: DICKINSON, JIM
Because no matter what form of emotional reality Dickinson is working in, he is above all else telling a tale, with his hands on a keyboard, his voice at the microphone or his body behind a recording console.
Now, Dickinson is stripping his talent down to its essence on Fishing with Charlie, using only words to paint the pictures he is so good at.
Dickinson has played and recorded with everyone from The Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan to Spiritualized and Mudhoney.
www.midheaven.com /artists/dickinson.jim.html   (485 words)

  
 Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Set Break 12 21 02
When producer/piano player Jim Dickinson reminisces about his storied career, the names and albums roll by in an unassuming and gentle Southern drawl, as casual as a waitress reciting breakfast specials.
Even with a new album finally under his belt, Dickinson hasn't changed his outlook on his own career much, meaning that his gig at Tipitina's this week (opening for the North Mississippi All-Stars) is a rare chance to see Dickinson perform live.
Guitarist Luther and drummer Cody will be in Dickinson's band, but it remains to be seen whether the elder Dickinson will return the favor and jam with his sons' band.
www.bestofneworleans.com /dispatch/2002-12-21/setbrk.html   (776 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
A graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Jim gained over 20 years experience in design, marketing and management before he left the corporate world to work full time providing top notch real estate services.
Using his experience, creative marketing and negotiating techniques, Jim specializes in helping sellers realize the maximum potential for their property, in any market.
Jim resides in Haddon Township with his wife and two children.
www.lvlrealtors.com /bios/biojdic.html   (190 words)

  
 Bob Frank Songs Recorded by Other Artists
Jim’s version of “Wild Bill Jones” (James Luther Dickinson, Atlantic, 1972) "stands as one of the great testaments not only of rock 'n' roll but also of its ancient and unfathomable roots," according to Nick Tosches (Where Dead Voices Gather).
Dickinson is not only a unique recording artist, he’s also one of the greatest producers of authentic American music that ever stepped into a studio.
Jim produced it, and his sons, Luther and Cody, of the famous blues/rock group, the North Mississippi Allstars, are playing on it, as well as a lot of other authentic musicians from Memphis and north Mississippi.
www.bobfranksongs.com /pages/other_artists.html   (1192 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The following piece stems from a reunion gig performed by Jim's high school combo, The Regents, during September of 1997 and is included as an added bonus.
It was about half an hour past midnight on a hot and humid Sunday evening in late September when your intrepid scribe, aided and abetted by Grinz Interactive's head-honcho, Ross Gohlke, approached a non-descript fire door, off a seedy alley, in the downtown area of Memphis and knocked loudly three times.
Dickinson is still very much a part of the Memphis music scene, unlike so many of his contemporaries, and members of the local glitterati - The Grifters, The Hellcats and The Oblivians plus the folks from Shangri-La Records - came along to pay homage, get down and suck on a few beers!
www.furious.com /perfect/jimdickinson.html   (6385 words)

  
 Danny Brooks singer/ songwriter, recording artist -Soulsville- Jim Dickinson
Dickinson records 'Wild Horses' with the Rolling Stones for their album, Sticky Fingers.
Honored by local NARAS chapter with Board of Directors Governor's Award in 1992, Jim Dickinson has won Producer of the Year seven times before retiring his name from competition.
Their debut LP, Shake Hands with Shorty, was produced by Jim and was nominated for a Grammy in 2001 for Best Contemporary Blues Artist.
www.dannybrooksmusic.com /jimdickinson.asp   (318 words)

  
 Boulder Weekly | Buzz | BuzzLead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
This time Hiatt not only thought of Dickinson to produce, but also used Dickinson's sons, guitarist Luther and drummer Cody (two-thirds of the acclaimed bluesy roots rock group the North Mississippi Allstars)—as the core backing group on the CD, which was recorded at the famed Ardent Studio in Memphis.
As a producer, Dickinson is known for his work with the revered pop group Big Star and the equally respected punkish rockers the Replacements.
And while the instrumentation on the CD is nothing if not judiciously applied to the songs, Dickinson pushed for more of a full-sounding recording.
www.boulderweekly.com /archive/071405/buzzlead.html   (808 words)

  
 James Luther Dickinson
Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger continues in the spirit of both the legend and the character.
Rarely writing his own songs, Dickinson always includes a Bob Frank tune, here opening with a rendition of "Redneck, Blue Collar," a vision of the workingman as hard to pin down as James Luther himself.
With a voice that is more gruff attitude than mellifluous melisma, Jim Dickinson demonstrates that attitude is enough if you have the goods to back it up.
www.puremusic.com /66jim.html   (446 words)

  
 ::::Jim Spake Biography::::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Saxophonist Jim Spake lives and works in his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, where he has made his living in music since high school.
Memphis's rich musical history continues to draw producers and artists here to record - perhaps to capture some of the "magic." In recent decades, Jim's saxophone work is an integral part of the mix.
From '93 to '01, the Sweet Soul Music International Soul Festival in Porretta Terme, Italy was an annual opportunity for Spake to work with such Soul/RandB icons as Lavern Baker, Otis Clay, Ann Peebles, Dan Penn, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Mavis Staples, Solomon Burke, and Irma Thomas.
www.jimspake.com /Pages/bio.html   (264 words)

  
 The sounds of the Fourth
Recording his 21st album in Memphis at the legendary Ardent Studios, Hiatt drew musical support from the North Mississippi Allstars' guitarist and drummer, Luther and Cody Dickinson, and tapped their father Jim Dickinson (whose credits range from Aretha Franklin and the Rolling Stones to Big Star and the Replacements) to produce.
Given the younger Dickinsons' fiery spirit, it's surprising that Hiatt's new "Master of Disaster" is a relatively quiet and understated affair, full of soulful, nostalgic yearning.
For his part, Moby never fails to rise to the occasion before a big outdoor crowd -- his Area1 and Area2 concerts remain at the top of the list of the best amphitheater shows I've ever seen -- and he is touring behind "Hotel," an album full of electronic pop gems.
www.jimdero.com /News2005/JulyFourthLiveJuly1.htm   (868 words)

  
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Dickinson's interest in the mystery and intrigue behind recorded music goes all the way back to his childhood.
Dickinson gained much hipster credibility from the release, which led to more and more producing gigs in the '80s.
The main force behind Dickinson's return to recording was his two sons, Luther and Cody, members of the roots-rocking band the Mississippi All-Stars.
www.neumu.net /datastream/2003/2003-00006/2003-00006_datastream.shtml   (1652 words)

  
 Rolling Stone : Jim Dickinson Steps Out
During the past thirty years, Dickinson also has worked with the North Mississippi All Stars, led by his sons Luther and Cody.
The younger Dickinsons are among the instrumentalists on Free Beer Tomorrow, due by the end of the year on Artemis Records.
Dickinson, the album's lone lead singer, plays some guitar in addition to his "normal array of keyboards."
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/5933823/jim_dickinson_steps_out   (390 words)

  
 Seattle Real Estate - About Select Seattle Homes
Jim Dickinson and Monte Johnson's friendly, efficient business style has built them a glowing reputation of providing their clients with the ultimate customer service experience.
Since they partnered in 2000, their high ethical standards, attention to detail, ongoing education, and timely communications, has led to their success and development of a strong client base.
Jim and Monte's 20+ years of combined experience allows the whole process to "Flow" as we masterfully guide you through the purchase of your "just right" urban home or condominium.
www.selectseattlehomes.com /about.html   (321 words)

  
 Dickinson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Sherman Dickinson (1888-1964), Music librarian, musicologist and creator of the Dickinson classification for music.
Jim Dickinson (contemporary), American record producer, pianist and singer
Dickinson State University, public university in Dickinson, North Dakota, USA
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dickinson   (273 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson MP3 Downloads - Jim Dickinson Music Downloads - Jim Dickinson Music Videos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Prophet and his Creatures of Habit back Dickinson on a treasure trove of songs from the...
On this night, the Creatures of Habit bring their sincere love of Dickinson's craft to that song as well as the 11 other raw, rootsy renditions included in the set.
By 1997, it had become clear to Social Distortion that their relationship with 550 (formerly Epic Records) had not worked out and that it was time to move back to the independents.
www.mp3.com /albums/226163/summary.html   (291 words)

  
 Jim Dickinson
Jim Dickinson made his first recordings in Memphis, Tn, at the Comet Studios, owned by Les Bihari (some sources also mention Satellite Records) with Memphis-based group the Regents, but these tracks are presumably unreleased (for instance "Education Blues" featuring Ronnie Stoots on vocals, circa 1959-60).
Jim Dickinson on bass on "Jesus Christ", drums on "Femme Fatale", and mellotron on "Kanga Roo", prod.
Jim Dickinson on piano/acoustic guitar/bckgr.vcls (with the Dixie Flyers)
koti.mbnet.fi /wdd/jimdickinson.htm   (8906 words)

  
 The Austin Chronicle Music: Review - James Luther Dickinson
You may know Jim Dickinson as the daddy of those North Mississippi All-Stars, producer of the Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me, or the guy who played piano with the Stones on Sticky Fingers and Dylan on Time Out of Mind.
Well, the Dickinson growl and his hard-bitten Easy Credit No Money Down, Years to Pay philosophical rant is back, most clearly evident in "Hungry Town," which throws more than a few hints about where the Stones at their peak learned their funk.
Or take "Asshole," a tune that manages to rhyme the orifice with both "that's so" and "low class-o," and even inject "little children" into the lyrical fray while skipping along to a musical duel to the death that pits a gypsy violin against a smoky xylophone.
www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2002-10-18/music_phases2.html   (231 words)

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