Jim Dickinson
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Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 26 October 2006
FOR MANY music afficionados, Memphis' Madison Avenue is the Southern equivalent of Abbey Road. Yet thousands cruise past the low-slung brick building at 2000 Madison ...
Obituary by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 25 August 2009
I'VE SAID GOODBYE to a lot of cultural heavyweights and big personal influences over the last few years: Otha Turner, Ike Turner, Rev. Gatemouth Moore, ...
For the Benefit of Mr. Dickinson
Report and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 6 August 2009
A Memphis legend gets by with a little help from his friends. ...
Jim Dickinson: "I'm Just Dead: I'm Not Gone"
Memoir by Bob Mehr, MOJO, November 2009
A Sun Records artist who played with Dylan, the Stones and Aretha and produced key albums by Big Star and Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson was ...
Jim Dickinson and the New Low-Fi
Interview by Tony Scherman, Musician, November 1987
Wherein a dangerous redneck weirdo becomes studio godfather to post-punk's finest. ...
James Luther Dickinson: Free Beer Tomorrow (Artemis)
Review by Joe Nick Patoski, Austin Chronicle, 18 October 2002
YOU MAY KNOW Jim Dickinson as the daddy of those North Mississippi All-Stars, producer of the Replacements' Pleased to Meet Me, or the guy who ...
James Luther Dickinson: Dixie Fried (Atlantic 8299)
Review by Gene Sculatti, Fusion, August 1972
UP TO YOUR ears in sessionmen gone solo? More than fed up with Russell/Nix-type Southern boys? Bludgeoned to insensitivity by Kinney Product? Well, James Luther ...
Memphis: A Legendary Music City is on the Rebound
Report by Rob Tannenbaum, Rolling Stone, 8 September 1988
Keith Richards, U2 and R.E.M. have recorded there, but the city's future hinges on its home-grown talent ...
Robert Gordon: It Came From Memphis (Secker & Warburg)
Book Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, October 1995
"WE HAD poetic furor," says Memphis scenester Randall Lyon, a key figure in Robert Gordon's new book about the music of his home town. "I ...
James Luther Dickinson: Jungle Jim And The Voodoo Tiger
Review by John Morthland, No Depression, 30 April 2006
IF 2002's Free Beer Tomorrow – Jim Dickinson's "follow-up" to his 1971 solo debut Dixie Fried – sounded like a well-conceived showcase for his favourite ...
Retrospective and Interview by Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer, 26 October 2006
The little recording studio on Madison has played a big part in Memphis music history. ...
Flies on Shit: Alex Chilton Goes Back to Memphis
Book Excerpt by Holly George-Warren, Viking Books, March 2014
The former Big Star man sees the Sex Pistols in Memphis and limbers up for the shambolic Like Flies On Sherbert. An exclusive excerpt from ...
Jim Dickinson: Fishing with Charlie & Other Selected Readings
Sleeve notes by Bill Bentley, Birdman Records, 2006
THERE AREN'T MANY shamans still in our world. Most have been ground down to dust, and those left are laying low, hoping to dodge the ...
Retrospective and Interview by Robert Gordon, MOJO, October 1994
Backwoods, Mississippi. Home to Jim Dickinson, the revered producer and professional redneck whose work spans the story of Southern music from Sun Records to Big ...
Jim Dickinson & The Regents: A Memphis Tale
Report by Joss Hutton, Bucketfull of Brains, 1997
IT WAS ABOUT half an hour past midnight on a hot and humid Sunday evening in late September when your intrepid Bucketfull team, aided and ...
Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2002
THIS MAIN COURSE is a hearty southern dish, marinated in worldly wisdom and good humour, matured slowly in honky-tonks, recording studios and bars the world ...
see also Big Star
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