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Tuesday, November 07, 2006
CADILLAC MAN
The Jesters
Sun #400 : 1966
Available on: The Sun Records Collection
Rhino : 1994
[Buy It]
DIXIE FRIED
LOUISE
CASEY JONES (ON THE ROAD AGAIN)
James Luther Dickinson
Dixie Fried
Atlantic : 1972
Reissued on Sepia Tone : 2002
[Buy It]
NATCHEZ SHOPPING BLUES
YOUNG MAMA
HARLEM COUNTRY GIRL
Olu Dara
In The World: From Natchez to New York
Atlantic : 1998
[Buy It]
I was on assignment last month - and I did get the story - but I came back with some broken bones, and the reason you haven't heard from me lately is I haven't been typing much. Typing hurts. And I can't tie my own shoes for a few months to come. But I'm here today to tell you that the Moistworks crue is pretty jazzed about this upcoming coupling of Jim Dickinson & Olu Dara. (Click here for tickets; the show starts at nine, & the afterparty goes past midnight. Full disclosure: the booker is a friend - in part bc he does stuff like book shows like this.)
Jim, too, is a friend, from visits to Memphis & its environs (and Jim's own, more recent, visits to NYC): A session man for Bob, Aretha, and the Rolling Stones. A producer who cut 3rd/Sister Lovers, Like Flies on Sherbert, and Pleased to Meet Me. And the last voice you hear on The Sun Records Collection (that's Jim singing, with Sam Phillips behind the board). I've spent many an hour in Jim's Mississippi doublewide, eating BBQ, arguing, & absorbing. I've got some of that on tape, and plan to post it here as soon as I, like Rocky Racoon, am able.
Olu Dara is probably best known as Nas's pop. (Fan at one, LA concert: "Hey, Olu - how many kids you got?" Olu: "In what state?") But his background - which stretches all the way back to grand-uncles who played alongside of Ma Rainey and Louis Jordan in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels - is just as interesting. More me: I had dinner with Olu, Nas, and Kelis, at a Manhattan steak house, a few years ago, and wrote about it for the New York Times. It was a trip.
Less me: The Paris Bar is small, intimate; the pairing is a stroke of genius, and should be worth every one of the fifty thousand pennies it'll cost to see. I'd say more but, these days, the cowgirls seem to be running this ranch....Labels: alex
posted by Alex
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