North Mississippi Allstars

Artist:  North Mississippi Allstars
Origin:  Hernando, Mississippi, USA.
Genre:  Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Roots Rock, Americana, Country Blues, Folk Blues

Original line-up:

Luther Dickinson:  Guitar, Vocals
Cody Dickinson:  Drums, Keyboards, Electric Washboard
Chris Chew:  Bass

North Mississippi Allstars is an American Southern Rock Band from Hernando, Mississippi, formed in 1996 by brothers Luther Dickinson (Guitar, Vocals), and Cody Dickinson (Drums, Keyboards, Electric Washboard), and Chris Chew (Bass).  The band's sound like Country Blues of artists like Mississippi Fred McDowell and R.L. Burnside.  The band was released debut Shake Hands With Shortly, was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Contemporary Blues Album".  They also won a Blues Music Award for "Best New Artist Debut" in 2001.  The Band opened for Robert Plant and The Band Of Joy on their concert tour in 2011 and they also opened for Dave Matthews Band in the spring 2013.

Title:   Up And Rolling  (2019)
Genre:  Southern Rock, Blues Rock, Roots Rock, Americana, Country Blues, Folk Blues
Label:  New West Records
Rating:   ****

Format:  CD:

Tracks:

 1.  Call That Gone  (4:45)
 2.  Up And Rolling (5:04)
 3.  What You Gonna Do? (feat. Mavis Staples)  (3:22)
 4.  Drunk Outdoors  (3:38)
 5.  Peaches  (5:17)
 6.  Mean Out World (feat. Jason Isbell & Duane Betts) (6:33)
 7.  Out On The Road (feat. Cedric Burnside)  (2:19)
 8.  Lonesome In My Home  (3:07)
 9.  Bump That Mother  (3:12)
10. Living Free  (3:57)
11. Take My Hand, Precious Lord (feat. Cedric Burnside) (3:08)
12. Otha's Bye Bye Baby (feat. Otha Turner)  (0:38)

Format:   LP:

Side A:

 1.  Call That Gone  (4:45)
 2.  Up And Rolling (5:04)
 3.  What You Gonna Do? (feat. Mavis Staples)  (3:22)
 4.  Drunk Outdoors  (3:38)
 5.  Peaches  (5:17)

Side B:

 1.  Mean Out World (feat. Jason Isbell & Duane Betts) (6:33)
 2.  Out On The Road (feat. Cedric Burnside)  (2:19)
 3.  Lonesome In My Home  (3:07)
 4.  Living Free  (3:57)
 5.  Take My Hand, Precious Lord (feat. Cedric Burnside) (3:08)

Personnel:

Luther Dickinson:  Guitar, Vocals

Cody Dickinson:  Drums, Wurlitzer, Bass, Vocals
Carl Dufrene:  Bass
Sharde Thomas:  Fife, Vocals
Sharisse Norman:  Vocals

Additional Musicians:

Mavis Staples:  Vocals on "What You Gonna Do?"
Jason Isbell:  Vocals on "Mean Old World"
Cedric Burnside:  Vocals, Guitar on "Out On The Road", "Take My Hand, Precious Lord", "What You Gonna Do?" "Living Free", "Drunk Outdoors"
Duane Betts:  Guitar on "Mean Old World"
Otha Turner:  Vocals on "Otha's Bye Bye Bye"

Special Guests:

Rev Charles Hodges:  B3 on "What You Gonna Do?", "Living Free"
Roosevelt Collier  Steel Guitar on "Bump That Mother"
Garry Turner:   Vocals on "Otha's Bye Bye Bye"

Up And Rolling is the tenth studio album by North Mississippi Allstars, released on October 4, 2019 by New West Records, featuring Mavis Staples, Jason Isbell, Cedric Burnside and Duane Betts.