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...Mississippi hills to a brand-new audience, the Allstars are three men in their 20s, two of them white and one black: Luther Dickinson, who sings and plays snaky slide guitar; his brother Cody, a monstrously talented drummer; and their friend Chris Chew, who adds fleet-fingered bass and the vocal harmonies he learned at the Rising Sun Baptist Church in nearby Hernando. The Allstars spend most of their time on the road (their van, Dirty Red, has logged 53,000 miles in the past 18 months alone), fusing the punkish energy of juke-joint blues with rock-guitar solos...
...since the Civil War, then dances around it with virtuoso rock and jazz accents. Luther, 27, his soft features framed by thick black curls, finger picks his Gibson hollow body and uses a bottleneck slide to make it skitter and howl. Garry Burnside locks in to the groove on bass (Chew is off working today, driving a truck for Williams-Sonoma), David Kimbrough Jr. adds a slinky guitar part, and Kenny Kimbrough wails on a conga. The instruments chase each other around the barn, hanging on a single chord and repeating a riff over and over with subtle variations...
After a year of hard touring and residencies at some of the better tourist traps on Beale Street, the brothers lost their first bass player, recruited their huge, beatific friend Chris Chew and hit the road again, becoming mainstays of the Mississippi-Alabama-Georgia alt-rock circuit. They radiated so much talent, innocence and enthusiasm that an impressive roster of stars--Lucinda Williams, Beck, Warren Haynes, Al Kooper, Widespread Panic--have asked one or both to sit in. And as they developed a following and played longer sets as headliners, they found themselves opening up the hill-country sound with...
...fresh takes on the music of French Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt, but he does so by substituting his own instrument in the lead role. Carter, whether he's playing tenor or soprano sax, shows off a sweet, sinuous tone; when he reinterprets Reinhardt's classic Nuages with a bass sax, the muscular sound is distancing at first, but then it wraps itself around the listener like an anaconda. This CD does more than invoke Reinhardt's spirit; it has a life...
...craft songs that fit their personality (he had many a phone conversation with Toni Braxton before co-writing and producing her current Top 10 song He Wasn't Man Enough). He describes his music as "an R.-and-B. pop classical sound." His songs typically mix deep bass grooves with bright rivers of strings. Listening to a Jerkins song is like driving through the 'hood in a limo. Even his missteps intrigue. On the new Spears CD, he produced a remake of the Rolling Stones' classic (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction. Instead of rocking out, the track is flowing...