The 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 has been the backing band for John Hiatt, including appearing on the album "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),
The mid-90s were a special time for modern Mississippi country blues. RL Burnside, Jr. Kimbrough, Otha Turner and their musical families were at their peak; touring the world, making classic records and doing the all-night boogie at Jr's Juke Joint and Otha's BBQ Goat picnics -- the music and the culture rich as the black Mississippi dirt. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson soaked up the music of their father, Jim Dickinson, and absorbed the North Mississippi Blues legacy while playing and shaking it down at the juke joints with their blues ancestors. Luther (guitar and vocals) and Cody (drums and vocals) joined up with bassist Chris Chew to form the core of their own band, The North Mississippi Allstars. Through the filter of generations of Mississippi Blues men, the Allstars pioneered their own blues-infused rock and roll and continue to do so.
The band hit the road with the release of their first record, Shake Hands With Shorty, Grammy-nominated for “Best Contemporary Blues Album.” Bringing their hill country blues-infused rock & roll to stages all over the country and the world (including multiple tours in Europe and Asia), the Allstars quickly gained a loyal fan base, and to date have released six full-length albums. The bands’s third record, Phantom Record also received a Grammy nod.
Electric Blue Watermelon, their third album to receive a Grammy nomination, embodies the Allstars’ own sound. It reflects the band’s old times and lives growing up in their musical community in North Mississippi. “The record holds to the folk tradition of oral history,” as Luther Dickinson puts it. “Electric Blue Watermelon celebrates the lives and legends of men who are folk heroes in my community. If the traditions are passed down and kept alive, they can’t help but mutate and change.” Electric Blue Watermelon is certainly a departure from the blues tradition, but it is a record that reaches in the future and back into the past. It’s loud psychedelic southern folk rock blues.
Someday Baby
North Mississippi Allstars Lyrics
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You make me hollar whoa whoa whoa
When you squeeze me baby
You make me hollar whoa whoa whoa
That get my mind
Now what are you doin' to me
You a good lookin' woman
You a good lookin' woman
Just as sweet as you can be
That get my mind
Now what are you doin' to me
Now when you squeeze me baby
You make me hollar whoa whoa whoa
When you squeeze me baby
You make me hollar whoa whoa whoa
That get my mind
Now what are you tryin' to do to me
I said you a good lookin' woman
Just as sweet as you can be
You a good lookin' woman
Just as sweet as you can be
That get my mind
Now what are you tryin' to do to me
The lyrics to North Mississippi Allstars' song, "Someday Baby," are a tribute to the power of physical touch and attraction. The first verse describes the physical response the singer experiences when his lover squeezes him, causing him to holler in pleasure. The second verse describes the woman as not just physically attractive, but also sweet in personality. However, the repeated refrain in each verse is the question of what the woman is doing to the singer's mind through her actions.
The song is a celebration of the passionate and exciting aspects of romantic relationships. The lyrics highlight the physical pleasure that can be experienced between two people and how it can connect them on a deeper level. By describing the woman as both physically and mentally appealing, the singer suggests that the physical pleasure leads to emotional attraction as well.
Overall, "Someday Baby" is a simple but powerful ode to the joys of intimacy and attraction between two people. Its repetitive lyrics emphasize the importance of physical touch and the emotional connections it can create.
Line by Line Meaning
When you squeeze me baby
When you hold me tight
You make me hollar whoa whoa whoa
You make me feel sensations that are overwhelming me
That get my mind
I can't stop thinking about it
Now what are you doin' to me
Why are you having this effect on me?
You a good lookin' woman
You are attractive
Just as sweet as you can be
You have a kind personality
Now what are you tryin' to do to me
What is your intention with me?
Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: HAMMIE NIXON, JOHN ADAM ESTES
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Phil Gordon
killer slide!!!
theSavageHippie
Electric Worry?
regoddamndiculus
theSavageHippie this song was reworked from the same song that clutch reworked into electric worry. The original is by missippippi fred mcdowell called fred's worried life blues. I just found this out today. The rolling stones covered a song of his called you gotta move on the sticky fingers album.