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North Mississippi Allstars Tour Dates

City	Venue	Date		Tickets
Chillicothe, IL	Three Sisters Park	Fri	May 24 / 13	Find Tickets
Thornville, OH	Legend Valley	Thu	Jul 18 / 13	Find Tickets
Floyd, VA	FloydFest	Thu	Jul 25 / 13	Find Tickets

North Mississippi Allstars Biography

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North Mississippi Allstars is a Southern rock/blues band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards, electric washboard), and Chris Chew (electric bass guitar). In addition to the guitar, Dickinson also plays a cigar box guitar called the "lowebow." Duwayne Burnside, who formerly played second guitar in the band, is a son of R. L. Burnside (who also played on some of the band's tracks). Allstars' first release, ''Shake Hands With Shorty'', was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Blues Album". Since then, ''51 Phantom'' and ''Electric Blue Watermelon'' have received nominations in that same category. The group also won a Blues Music Award for "Best New Artist Debut" in 2001. The band made their network television debut in 2000 on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien''. They also served as the house band for a short period in 2004 on ''Last Call with Carson Daly''. The band now backs up and tours with John Hiatt. They have released an album with him entitled ''Master of Disaster''. All the members of the Allstars have also teamed up with Robert Randolph and John Medeski to form The Word. In November 2007, Luther Dickinson joined The Black Crowes as lead guitarist, and has appeared on their albums ''Warpaint'' (2008), ''Before the Frost...Until the Freeze'' (2009) and ''Croweology'' (2010). Luther Dickinson currently devotes his time to both the Black Crowes and the North Mississippi Allstars. Cody Dickinson has also started a side project, Hill Country Revue, featuring Daniel Coburn, Kirk Smithhart, Doc Samba and Ed Cleveland. They are sometimes joined by Luther Dickinson and members of the Burnside family. They have released two albums, ''Make A Move'' (2009) and ''Zebra Ranch'' (2010). Luther and Cody Dickinson's father was the Memphis musician and record producer, Jim Dickinson. He, besides releasing music in his own name, worked with Ry Cooder, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, and Primal Scream. Jim Dickinson also set up the Zebra Ranch recording studio complex during the 1990s in Hernando, Mississippi. His career spanned more than four decades before he died on August 15, 2009. The band opened for Robert Plant and the Band of Joy on their concert tour in 2011. They also opened for Dave Matthews Band in the spring of 2013.

Wikipedia This entry is from Wikipedia, the user-contributed encyclopedia. It may not have been reviewed by professional editors and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. If you find the biography content factually incorrect, defamatory or highly offensive you can edit this article at Wikipedia.