North Mississippi Allstars is an American rock/blues jam band from Hernando… Read Full Bio ↴North Mississippi Allstars is an American rock/blues jam 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). Duwayne Burnside, who formerly played second guitar in the band, is a son of R.L. Burnside (who has also played on some of the band's tracks).

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.

Take Yo Time Rodney
North Mississippi Allstars Lyrics

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I don′t know how can a woman
Do a man so wrong.
She can run around all night
Don't never come home
I walk the streets all night
Looking for that girl of mine
Found her sloppy drunk
Down at the county line.

(Refrain)
Oh Lord so wrong (2)
OH LORD IT′S (SHE'S?) too far gone

Had all I can stand
You know wrong's wrong
Someone′s come up missing
I′ll be long gone

She's shaking on a leaf

Trailing on a tree
She can′t look me in the face the way she's been doing me

Overall Meaning

The lyrics to "Take Yo Time Rodney" by North Mississippi Allstars tell the story of a man who is deeply hurt and betrayed by a woman who has been mistreating him. The singer expresses his disbelief and confusion as he wonders how a woman could do him so wrong. He describes how she stays out all night without coming home, leaving him wandering the streets in search of her. Eventually, he finds her drunk at the county line, a clear indication of her reckless behavior.

The refrain emphasizes the magnitude of the wrongdoing, expressing that it is not just a minor transgression but something that has gone too far. The singer acknowledges that he has reached his limit and cannot tolerate any more of her mistreatment. He hints at the possibility of someone going missing, implying that he may be planning to leave or disappear from her life completely.

In the final line, the singer highlights the woman's guilt and shame by saying that she cannot even face him directly, unable to meet his gaze due to the way she has been treating him. This adds to the sense of betrayal and hurt that the singer feels throughout the song.

Overall, "Take Yo Time Rodney" portrays the emotional turmoil and pain caused by a partner's infidelity and disrespectful behavior. The lyrics capture the singer's confusion, anger, and determination to move on from this toxic relationship.

Line by Line Meaning

I don't know how can a woman
I am puzzled by a woman's behavior

Do a man so wrong.
Treating a man unjustly.

She can run around all night
She freely wanders throughout the night

Don't never come home
Never returning to her place of residence

I walk the streets all night
I spend the entire night walking around the streets

Looking for that girl of mine
Searching for my significant other

Found her sloppy drunk
Discovered her intoxicated and careless

Down at the county line.
In the vicinity of the county boundary.

(Refrain)
Recurring chorus

Oh Lord so wrong (2)
Expressing the extreme incorrectness

OH LORD IT′S (SHE'S?) too far gone
The situation or person has reached an irreversible state