For the previous 12 months or so, guitarist Joey Williams has been closing North Mississippi Allstars reveals with Bishop Neal Roberson’s “Don’t Let The Satan Experience.” That made it a pure choose for Nonetheless Shakin’ (New West), the sturdy collective’s first LP in three years.
“We wished to seize that spirit for the album,” says Luther Dickinson, who co-founded the Allstars together with his brother, Cody, again in 1996.
Out June 6, Nonetheless Shakin’ is being billed as a “celebration” of the North Mississippi Allstars’ acclaimed 2000 debut, Shake Fingers With Shorty. It additionally provides apparent proof that they haven’t misplaced a step in 1 / 4 century.
For his or her twelfth album, the Dickinsons welcomed three newbies with legendary pedigrees: Robert Kimbrough (youngest son of Junior), Duwayne Burnside (son of R.L.) and Grahame Lesh (son of late Grateful Lifeless bassist Phil Lesh). It’s the “sacred” pedal metal of Kashia Hunter, one other contemporary face, that provides “Don’t Let The Satan Experience” its religious edge. Allstar regulars embody the Dickinsons, Williams (Blind Boys Of Alabama) and Rayfield “Ray Ray” Holloman (Eminem, Ne-Yo).
We’re proud to premiere “Don’t Let The Satan Experience.”
—Hobart Rowland
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