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 To visit James Luther’s and the Zebra Ranch Studio’s Homepage CLICK HERE"Jim Dickinson... is a natural groover with an encyclopedic knowledge of American roots music. His new solo album, Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger (Memphis International), features songs as terrific as they are obscure, all bursting with infectious spirit." -Baltimore City Paper Jungle Jim & The Voodoo Tiger is the third studio album in 34 years from pianist/vocalist/
bandleader/producer/session-player/raconteur/
cultural iconoclast Jim Dickinson and his Memphis International debut. Actually, the album, like the two that preceded it, is credited to Jim’s artist alter ego, James Luther Dickinson. Over the course of the past 40 years, Dickinson has worked in the studio with Ry Cooder, the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Arlo Guthrie, Sam & Dave, Big Star, Tony Joe White, Bettye Lavette, the Replacements, Duane Allman, The North Mississippi Allstars and many more. Jungle Jim & The Voodoo Tiger was produced by Dickinson and Memphis International’s David Less, the two having earlier collaborated in producing Alvin Youngblood Hart’s Grammy® nominated Down In The Alley and Harmonica Frank Floyd’s The Missing Link for the label.
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 Jungle Jim & The Voodoo Tiger is a set of songs that Dickinson has collected over the years in, as he puts it, “the jukebox of my mind,” plus some new songs by writers he greatly admires. Backing is by sons Cody (drums) and Luther (guitar) of North Mississippi Allstars fame, along with Alvin Youngblood Hart (guitar). Bass duties are shared by Paul Taylor (electric bass) who was part of the band DDT with the Dickinson boys and Amy LaVere (stand-up bass) whose own album This World Is Not My Home has been making waves of late plus a number of other top shelf Memphis players. Jim Dickinson handles vocals and keyboards. It’s an album that knows no genre or category but is sure to be a favorite on Americana radio. Dickinson expects to tour upon the release of the album with Cody and Luther’s backing, bringing their skewed version of “family values” to the great American road.Recorded late last year in less than two weeks at the Dickinson family’s Zebra Ranch studio in rural Independence, Mississippi, the album songs range from rollicking barrelhouse (“Hadacol Boogie,” “Rooster Blues”) to stinging social commentary (“Red Neck, Blue Collar,” penned by legendary folkie Bob Frank) to contemplative and atmospheric (“Violin Burns”) Song highlights include “Somewhere Down the Road,” written by Chuck Prophet from Green on Red and a honky tonkin’ rendition of the Memphis classic “White Silver Sands” with the sly soul of “Love Bone” and “Can’t Beat The Kid.” Says Jim Dickinson, who is often James Luther Dickinson’s harshest critic: “I’m real happy with it; it’s damn a good record for eleven days!” Ry Cooder contributed comments that are part of the CD artwork for this, the latest release of a man he’s proud to call his “personal friend.” Cooder writes of the Jungle Jim experience: “Take a seat, listen in, find your place.”
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