Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 7\/25\/20\/—Stony Plain Records announces a September 4 release date for the first volume of music from roots \u201csuper group,\u201d New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers: Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, the late Jim Dickinson, and North Mississippi Allstars members Luther Dickinson and Cody Dickinson. Recorded at the Zebra Ranch Recording Studio in Coldwater, Mississippi, the 10 blues-drenched tracks of sublime roots music on New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 1<\/i><\/b> will be followed in the spring of 2021 by Volume 2<\/i><\/b>. Pre-order the album here:\u00a0 https:\/\/stonyplainrecords.com\/ The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers originated back in November, 2007, when musician brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson sat down for a guitar jam with ex-Squirrel Nut Zippers leader Jimbo Mathus, along with blues greats Charlie Musselwhite, Alvin Youngblood Hart and the late Memphis pianist, producer and all around musical stylist Jim Dickinson, gathered for a roots music extravaganza recording under the group name of the New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers.<\/p>\n For more than 12 years, that recording\u2019s existence was mentioned only obscurely in interviews, and referenced as a great old-school recording by those few witnesses. It was done \u201cold school\u201d style live off-the- floor over several days, where the musicians all sat in one big circle in the studio and played quietly amongst the microphones, taking turns singing out in the room and improvising on the spot. Since Jim Dickinson\u2019s passing in the summer of 2009, the album just hung out in the archives, waiting. When Stony Plain founder Holger Petersen heard about the sessions this year and expressed his enthusiasm to release it, Luther Dickinson and his partner\/engineer Kevin Houston finished the production of the album It is a testament to the great experience and talent of these esteemed performers that they could casually conjure a recording of this quality out of the ether this way, sounding as if the listener is right there in the room with them, with between-song banter and commentary, the classic structures of the blues, being pulled together and teased apart by some of the most award-decorated members of the blues elite. This album crosses the generations of new blues-rockers and classic blues statesmen.<\/p>\n \u201cThe New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers album was conceived in the back of a tour bus,\u201d Luther Dickinson recalls. \u201cMavis Staples and Charlie Musselwhite had hit the road together, with the North Mississippi Allstars as the house band. The tour forged lifelong friendships and collaborations; it changed our lives in so many ways.<\/p>\n \u201cThe package tour was classic showbiz. We\u2019d all been snookered; the tour bus wasn\u2019t what we\u2019d imagined. Instead of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll luxury, we found ourselves in hard-cushioned, straight-back retirement home mass transport. The stationary armrests made sleeping futile\u2014so Charlie and I passed the miles shooting the breeze. Charlie made a list of great recordings I should check out, which became a catalyst for our recording session.<\/p>\n \u201cThe name of our recording project was born in the back of that ramshackle bus. We had a concept before we had a record. As I explained Alvin Youngblood Hart\u2019s mission to live life as a \u2018Freedom Rocker,\u2019 Charlie pointed out the window: there was a new moon that evening. Suddenly, \u2018New Moon Freedom Rockers\u2019 materialized. (Dad added \u2018Jellyroll\u2019 after the recording session.).<\/p>\n \u201cThe Dickinson crew doesn\u2019t enjoy parties, but we dig recording sessions and we love hustling up new recording projects. The New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers project was one of our \u2018potluck\u2019 recording session albums. For potlucks, we invite a cast of characters to the session\/party, and ask each player to bring a couple of songs. Musicians take turns leading and accompanying, and before you know it, a record materializes. Dad said misery sticks to the tape. With that in mind, we always strive to have fun in the studio. Making collaborative records with new and old friends is a blast. The NMJRFR session was a love fest. We enjoy music as an artifact of friendship, a by-product of the hang.<\/p>\n \u201cThe cast of characters for Charlie Musselwhite\u2019s Mississippi Hill Country homecoming recording session was perfect. We spent the first day recording the live set Charlie had taught the NMA. Then Alvin Youngblood Hart, Jimbo Mathus, and Dad joined the party\u2014each took turns leading us through their pot-luck recording party recipes. The table was set, the feast began, and the session became a festival. The homemade, self-produced recording changed our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n Each of the players in the band has impressive individual resumes, but together they add up to a whole greater than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n Charlie Musselwhite is a living blues treasure: a Grammy winner, multiple Blues Music Award winner and Memphis Music Hall of Fame inductee. The recording sessions for NMJRFR enabled him to return to his roots. Having spent his childhood in the Mississippi Delta, he then moved to Memphis during the teenage heaven of the rock \u2018n\u2019 roll 1950s. In the late \u201850s, Charlie left his mother\u2019s home and moved to Chicago looking for a job, only to find Maxwell Street, Chess Records, and a community of musicians who changed the world forever. In the psychedelic \u201860s he wound up in San Francisco, a \u201cstranger in a strange land,\u201d which he details in one of his featured performances on New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 1<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n \u201cI made up \u2018Strange Land\u2019 when I was eighteen, and had gone to Chicago to find a job,\u201d Musselwhite remembers. \u201cI\u2019d be walking the streets with the classifieds in my hand, filling out job applications and not getting any positive feedback. I didn\u2019t know a soul in Chicago, so as I walked the city, I started making up this song about being a \u2018stranger in a strange land.\u2019 I didn\u2019t know there was a book that already had that title. Anyhow, a few years later when I recorded my first album, I put that song on there. I still get requests for it to this day.\u201d<\/p>\n Alvin Youngblood Hart is a Grammy-winning musician who was born in Oakland, California, and spent some time in Carroll County, Mississippi, where he was influenced by the Mississippi country blues performed by his relatives.\u00a0Hart is known as one of the world’s foremost practitioners of country blues. His debut album,\u00a0Big Mama’s Door<\/i><\/b>, came out in 1996.\u00a0In 2003, Hart’s album,\u00a0Down in the Alley<\/i><\/b>,\u00a0was nominated for a\u00a0Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album<\/a>, and in 2005, he received a\u00a0Grammy <\/a>for his contribution to\u00a0Beautiful Dreamer \u2013 The Songs of\u00a0<\/i><\/b>Stephen Foster<\/i><\/b><\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n Hart performed in the 2003\u00a0Wim Wenders<\/a>\u00a0film,\u00a0The Soul of a Man<\/i><\/b><\/a>,<\/b> which was featured in\u00a0Martin Scorsese<\/a>‘s PBS-TV series,\u00a0The Blues<\/i><\/b><\/a>. Hart was also featured in the documentary,\u00a0Last of the Mississippi Jukes<\/i>. <\/b>In 2010, he teamed up with friends Jimbo Mathus and Luther Dickinson to form the South Memphis String Band. Their first album,\u00a0Home Sweet Home<\/i><\/b>, was nominated for Best Acoustic Album at the 2011 Blues Foundation Music Awards. The group released a second album,\u00a0Old Times There<\/i><\/b>, in early 2012.<\/p>\n One of Hart\u2019s featured performance highlights on New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 1<\/i><\/b> is a bluesy work-up of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u201cStone Free.\u201d<\/p>\n Besides his previous work with Alvin Youngblood Hart and Luther Dickinson in the South Memphis String Band, Jimbo Mathus was a founder and leader of the roots-bending Squirrel Nut Zippers, a band formed in 1993 in\u00a0Chapel Hill<\/a>, North Carolina, whose music was a fusion of\u00a0Delta blues<\/a>,\u00a0gypsy jazz<\/a>, 1930s\u2013era\u00a0swing<\/a>,\u00a0klezmer<\/a>, and other styles.\u00a0They found commercial success during the\u00a0swing revival<\/a>\u00a0of the late 1990s with their 1996 single “Hell.” After a hiatus of several years, the original band members got together in 2007 and toured in the U.S. and Canada.<\/p>\n In 2016, The Squirrel Zippers reunited with a new lineup to tour in support of the 20th anniversary of their highest-selling album,\u00a0Hot<\/i><\/b>. In addition to his work with the Squirrel Nut Zippers, Jimbo Mathus has recorded and produced a number of lauded solo records.<\/p>\n Jim Dickinson was a Memphis music legend for decades, performing solo as well as with a host of iconic international artists and local \u201cBluff City\u201d musicians. In the 1950s, he recorded for the iconic Sun Records label in Memphis and later played on sessions at Chips Moman\u2019s American Sound Studios.\u00a0 By 1966, Dickinson was a record producer at Ardent Studios working with numerous cutting-edge bands.<\/p>\n In the late 1960s, Dickinson joined with fellow Memphis musicians to form the Dixie Flyers, who backed a variety of performers, including Hank Ballard, James Carr and Albert Collins. In 1970, the group began to back many of Atlantic Records\u2019 stable of soul acts under the guidance of famed producer\u00a0Jerry Wexler. Then based at Criteria Studios in Miami, they recorded on Aretha Franklin\u2019s 1970 hit, \u201cSpirit in the Dark,\u201d and contributed to recordings by Delaney and Bonnie, Jerry Jeff Walker, Ronnie Hawkins, Sam and Dave, Dion, Brook Benton, Lulu, Sam the Sham and Esther Phillips.<\/p>\n Dickinson left the group to pursue a solo career in 1971 and released his first solo\u00a0album,\u00a0Dixie Fried<\/i>,<\/b> on Atlantic in 1972. In addition to the\u00a0Carl Perkins title song, the album featured songs by Bob Dylan and Furry Lewis.<\/p>\n In the 1970s, he became known as a producer, recording Big Star\u2019s Third <\/i><\/b>album in 1974, and serving as co-producer with Alex Chilton on Chilton\u2019s 1979 album, Like Flies on Sherbert<\/i><\/b>. He produced recordings for performers as diverse as\u00a0Willy DeVille, Green on Red, Mojo Nixon, The Replacements, Toots and the Maytals and Screamin\u2019 Jay Hawkins.<\/p>\n As a session musician, he played piano with The Rolling Stones on \u201cWild Horses\u201d for their historic 1970 Sticky Fingers <\/i><\/b>album, recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio; and through the rest of the century played on nearly a dozen records with Ry Cooder, as well as on Bob Dylan\u2019s 1997 album, Time Out of Mind<\/i><\/b>. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n With the North Mississippi Allstars, Jim Dickinson\u2019s sons Luther and Cody have proven that the apple doesn\u2019t fall far from the tree, as they\u2019ve embraced all manner of roots music in recording their own albums, as well as in collaborations with like-minded musicians who embrace the spirit of musical discovery and the sheer enjoyment of playing.<\/p>\n The Allstars’ first release,\u00a0Shake Hands with Shorty<\/i><\/b>, was nominated for a\u00a0Grammy Award<\/a>\u00a0for Best Contemporary Blues Album. Since then,\u00a051 Phantom<\/i><\/b>\u00a0and\u00a0Electric Blue Watermelon<\/i><\/b>\u00a0have received nominations in the same category. The group also won a\u00a0Blues Music Award<\/a>\u00a0for Best New Artist Debut in 2001. Luther Dickinson also has received three Grammy nominations in the Traditional Folk category as a solo artist.<\/p>\n The band has backed and toured with\u00a0John Hiatt<\/a>\u00a0and released an\u00a0album<\/a>\u00a0with him,\u00a0Master of Disaster<\/i><\/b><\/a>, and later teamed up with\u00a0Robert Randolph<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0John Medeski<\/a>\u00a0to form the\u00a0Word<\/a>.<\/p>\n In November 2007, Luther Dickinson joined the\u00a0Black Crowes<\/a>\u00a0as lead guitarist and appeared on their albums\u00a0Warpaint<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>(2008),\u00a0Before the Frost…Until the Freeze<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0(<\/b>2009) and Croweologzy <\/i><\/b>(2010).). Cody Dickinson also started a side project, Hill Country Revue, which released two albums,\u00a0Make a Move<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(2009) and\u00a0Zebra Ranch<\/i><\/b>\u00a0(2010).<\/p>\n Besides their touring with Mavis Staples and Charlie Mussewhite, the Allstars also opened for\u00a0Robert Plant<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Band of Joy<\/a>\u00a0on their concert tour in 2011 and the\u00a0Dave Matthews Band<\/a>\u00a0in the spring of 2013.<\/p>\n Other North Mississippi Allstars album releases include World Boogie Is Coming<\/i><\/b>\u00a0in 2013,\u00a0Freedom & Dreams<\/i><\/b>\u00a0in 2015, Prayer for Peace<\/i><\/b> in 2017 (which reached number one on the\u00a0Billboard<\/i><\/b><\/a>\u00a0<\/b>blues a<\/b>lbum chart) and most recently Up and Rolling<\/i><\/b> in 2020. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers Volume 1<\/u><\/i> Track Listing<\/u><\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Blues Why You Worry Me (featuring Charlie Musselwhite)<\/p>\n 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pony Blues (featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart)<\/p>\n 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Night Time (featuring Jimbo Mathus)<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Come on Down to My House (featuring Jim Dickinson)<\/p>\n 5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 K.C. Moan (featuring Charlie Musselwhite)<\/p>\n 6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Let\u2019s Work Together (featuring Jim Dickinson)<\/p>\n 7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Shake It and Break It (featuring Jimbo Mathus)<\/p>\n 8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stone Free (featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart)<\/p>\n 9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Stop and Listen Blues (featuring Alvin Youngblood Hart)<\/p>\n 10.\u00a0 Strange Land (featuring Charlie Musselwhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n Hi-res cover: http:\/\/www.markpuccimedia.com\/ <\/p>\n www.stonyplainrecords.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Hepworth<\/p>\n 287 S.Robertson Blvd, Beverly Hills, CA 90211<\/p>\n www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectmealtoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n http:\/\/twitter.com\/MrSpiritsman<\/a><\/p>\n www.spiritsman.com<\/a><\/p>\n mrspiritsman@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectskintoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectskintoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfecttraveltoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfecttraveltoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectmealtoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectmealtoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectgolftoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectgolftoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectmusictoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n perfectmusictoday@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n www.perfectnewztoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n![\"tn-10\"](\"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/12-2.jpg\")
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