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...little blues-rock band that's bringing the sound of the 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...
...muggy Tuesday afternoon, and electric blues is pumping out of a ramshackle red barn that sits in the weeds 50 yards beyond the Dickinsons' trailer homes. Outside the barn, a few people are drinking beer and swapping tall tales about mysterious guitar pickers and the talismanic powers of black-cat bones. Inside, Luther and Cody are jamming with two legendary blues families: the sons and grandsons of R.L. Burnside, 72, and of the late David ("Junior") Kimbrough, both giants of hill-country boogie. On the walls, a gallery of American icons--Betty Page, Casey Jones, Father Flanagan, Mississippi John Hurt...
...Dickinson's article on violent cartoons [PERSONAL TIME, June 12]: I have seen The Lion King, and I think it may be a tiny bit violent. But the main characters are, after all, lions. I was four years old when I first saw the movie, but I was not scared by violence. All I was thinking was, "Go, Simba, go!" It helped that my parents were there to talk to me about the movie. The scary scenes in Disney movies make them more exciting! Without them, the movies would be DUUUULLLL! MELISSA MARANTO, AGE 10 Lake Bluff...
Sendak also talked at length about the authors, poets and musicians who have influenced his own work, including Keats, Dickinson, Shakespeare, Mozart, Shostakovich and Melville...
...stay at Harvard was timed to include visits to the Keats and Dickinson rooms at Houghton Library where he plans to look for inspiration for his current project. The author revealed that he has been working on a book for the past four years, and hopes to have a draft ready by this fall...