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Luther Dickinson And The Sons of Mudboy - Onward & Upward

Styles: Traditional Folk, Folk-Blues, Gospel Blues
Released: 2009
Label: Memphis International
File: mp3@320K/s
Size: 90.0 MB
Time: 39:19
Art: front

1. Let It Roll - 4:16
2. Angel Band - 2:05
3. Where the Soul of a Man Never Dies - 3:17
4. Leaning On the Everlasting Arms - 3:01
5. Jis Eye Is On the Sparrow - 2:17
6. You've Got to Walk That Lonesome Highway - 3:01
7. Keep Your Lamp Trimmed & Burning - 4:08
8. Softly & Tenderly - 2:27
9. Up Over Yonder - 3:12
10. In the Garden - 2:30
11. Back Back Train - 4:35
12. Glory Glory - 4:25


Personnel:
Luther Dickinson - vocals, guitar
Sid Selvidge - guitar, vocals
Jimmy Crosthwait - washboard, vocals
Jimbo Mathus - guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals
Steve Selvidge - guitar, dobro, vocals
Paul Taylor - washtub bass
Shannon McNally - vocals

Notes: Just three days after the death of his father, Memphis (and Muscle Shoals and Miami) music legend Jim Dickinson, Luther Dickinson opened the doors to the family s Zebra Ranch studio in Independence, Mississippi and recorded Onward and Upward, an album of gospel songs and hymns over the course of a few hours. Luther, one third of the North Mississippi All-Stars and now a member of The Black Crowes, was joined by an ad hoc group dubbed The Sons of Mudboy (an homage to his late father s influential rock band Mudboy and the Neutrons) who were all close to Dickinson the elder and wished to address his loss in a musical way. The Sons of Mudboy include two veterans of the original Mudboy: Sid Selvidge (guitar, vocals) and Jimmy Crosthwait (washboard, vocals). Also on the session were Jimbo Mathus (guitar, mandolin, banjo, vocals) formerly of the Squirrel Nut Zippers and of the South Memphis String Band, Steve Selvidge (guitar, dobro, vocals) and Paul Taylor (washtub bass) as well as vocalist Shannon McNally.
Inspired by Dickinson pater familias, Luther and company duplicated the sound of mid-Century era reel-to-reel filed recordings, using only two microphones plugged directly into a two-track ˝ inch tape recorder: no mixing after the fact. Ardent s John Fry mastered the tracks directly from the two track to the mother stamper from which (vinyl) pressings were sourced. Most of the songs were nailed in just one take with just a few exceptions and those were completed in no more than three takes. That s just how we do it, Luther muses.
Onward and Upward will be released on November 10 by Memphis International, the label for which Jim Dickinson, as his performing alter ego James Luther Dickinson, released his last three album, Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger (2006), Killers From Space (2007) and this year s Dinosaurs Run in Circles.
The songs are part of Luther s musical heritage. He grew up hearing Softly and Tenderly and Leaning on the Everlasting Arms at the Second Avenue Baptist Church in Memphis where his paternal grandmother played piano. He learned His Eye Is On The Sparrow from a hymnal that his father shared with him his mom, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, actually sang it to him in the hospital where her husband was being treated during his last days. Mississippi Fred McDowell s album Amazing Grace is the source of both Back Back Train and Keep Your Lamp Trimmed and Burning and Luther had been known to perform them with the late Otha Turner who closed every show with Glory Glory, also included on Onward and Upward. Let It Roll is an original that sprang to Luther s mind at the moment he was loading in the analog tape machine on the day of the recordings. Another original, Up Over Yonder was written the day Luther s grandmother passed away.
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