Musik / blues

Blues & ballads : a folksinger's songbook, volumes I & II


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AllMusic

2016

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Thom Jurek

2016

" ... the solo album Luther Dickinson has been hinting at for half a decade ... Though he wrote or co-wrote all 21 songs here, they have been inspired by tunes he learned and people and traditions he learned from. The production is intimate, stripped down. Voices and guitars are prominent, but drums, blues fife, and an upright piano and organ are heard here and there. All the songs were recorded live in the studio at various times, often in a single take ... Blues & Ballads: A Folksinger's Songbook, Vols. 1-2 is a musical autobiography. For Dickinson, blues and folk music are living traditions that continue to inform his geography, and his life and work within it. It's fortunate that he considered these songbooks worth sharing".


fRoots

2016 June

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Steve Hunt

2016 June

"This latest release from the North Mississippi All-Star and former Black Crowes guitarist (...) is a long listen, but by using a selection of lead singers and stylistic variety Dickinson's album feels more like a well-sequenced compilation than a solo indulgence, with calls from Alvin Youngblood Hart, Mavis Staples and JJ Grey (vocals) and Jason Isbell (slide guitar). The vocals and fiddle of (Jack White collaborator) Lilla Mae Riche are tremendous throughout, while the fife and drum of Sharde Thomas add authenticity to Dickinson's positioning of his work within his cherished regional traditions".