Saturday at The Side Bar Theatre, 809 Railroad Ave. Visit LIVING THE HIGH LIFE: The humorous, party-hearty, Grammy Award-nominated singer Afroman, who is best known for his 2001 stoner anthem “Because I Got High,” returns to the city for a lively gig at 9 p.m. Tickets are $15 advance and $20 at the door. Friday at the Bradfordville Blues Club, 7152 Moses Lane.
Let’s take our weekly guided tour:Ī MATTER OF SURVIVAL: New Orleans bluesman Joe “Survival” Caruso gets the pre-Mardi Gras festivities started at 9 p.m. There are plenty of good shows in the city here in mid-January. If you can’t make it to the beach this weekend, have no fear. Day passes will be sold at festival headquarters and Central Square Records in the heart of Seaside only if weekend passes have not sold out online. “It will be quieter than the Allstars, you can take solace in that,” Dickinson said and laughed.įor a complete, blow-by-blow list of all the 30A performers, visit Weekend passes are available for $225. (CST) on Saturday at Fish Out of Water in Watercolor. (CST) on Friday and Sunday at Pandora’s Main Room and 9 p.m. The Allstars’ rollicking shows sometimes rave on for nearly four hours, judging from a 2013 throwdown in the band’s backyard of Oxford, Miss.ĭo not expect a presentation rivaling a snake-handling tent revival, though, when Dickinson plays solo at 9 p.m.
Since 2000, the Allstars have kept the raw-boned blues alive in the 21st century through a series of inspired albums such as “Hernando” (2008) and the Memphis-drenched, must-own “World Boogie Is Coming” (2013). The music genes were handed down to his two sons before the elder Dickinson died in 2009. When dad was at work up the road from Mississippi in Memphis, he produced records for Big Star, The Replacements, Ry Cooder, John Hiatt, Alex Chilton, Mudhoney, The Radiators and many more. The title of the album came from Burnside, who used the expression whenever he had to excuse himself and use the restroom.Īlong the way, the Dickinson brothers got help in the studio from their father, Jim Dickinson, who was a musician who worked with Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones (that’s him playing piano on “Wild Horses”) and Aretha Franklin. Burnside and Othar “Otha” Turner, Dickinson and his brother, drummer Cody Dickinson, released the first Allstars album called “Shake Hands With Shorty.” It won a Grammy Award for best contemporary blues album. In 2000, taking inspiration from such native North Mississippi blues musicians as R.L. “Jimbo Mathus from the Squirrel Nut Zippers brought me here the first time, not long before our first album had come out.”
“It’s a little harried at times at 30A but I really enjoyed it when I was there,” Taylor said.ĭickinson is making his 30A debut in Seaside, a beach resort town that he has not visited since 1998, the same year the architecturally orchestrated village on the Gulf was used as the set for “The Truman Show.” (CST) on Saturday at Bud & Alley’s in on the beach in Seaside. More about the Taylor show later, but you can catch Olney at 11 a.m. Taylor, who played at last year’s Seaside summit, is taking a pass on the beach party this year for a solo tour of Florida, which will bring him to Tallahassee on Tuesday night. “Find out where David Olney is playing and go see him,” is how Texas singer-songwriter Eric Taylor answered the question of what to do at this year’s 30A Songwriters Festival. Some of the other performers in this year’s gathering of musicians include Graham Nash, Leon Russell, Jason Isbell, The Indigo Girls, Rodney Crowell, Chely Wright, Deana Carter, Bobby Bare Jr., former Tallahassee artist Pierce Pettis and Tallahassee troublemaker-troubadour-poet Grant Peeples, to name but a few. “Yes, you can say that I am taking a working vacation,” Dickinson said. The mega-fest kicks off Friday, runs through Sunday night and features more than 150 songwriters playing 200 shows on 25 stages in and around Seaside. Oh, yeah, and Dickinson, who turns 42 on Saturday, is also playing a three-night run as part of the three-day 30A Songwriters Festival. “So I asked her if she wanted to go to the coast and she said yes.” “It’s my mom’s 70th birthday,” Dickinson said during a phone chat from Seaside on Wednesday afternoon. Luther Dickinson, the rather phenomenal slide guitar player and lead singer for the North Mississippi Allstars, is taking his wife, two young kids and mom to the beach in nearby Seaside for the weekend.