Jim Dickinson - S&D

Just finished Man Called Destruction, Chilton's (incredibly good, sad, disturbing, etc) bio, and Jim's parts are down the line fantastic. Such a way with words and stories and myth-building/breaking. I might have to listen to more of his music one day. This thread can help point me where to start.

Dixie Fried, Like Flies on Sherbert

yeah dixie fried is classic. need to check out the memphis blues festival thing.

Anyone heard the Curse Of The Alphastone record he references in the PSF interview?

can anyone dig this up...? v curious to hear it

what I said goes for Alex's solo stuff and his other projects post-BS too. So yeah, need to check out FoS and other stuff as well.

http://therobertgordon.com/books/it-came-from-memphis/

read this book too, if you ever get a chance to see the unreleased video & film clip collection Gordon put together in support of the book, see that too

kinda surprised Dickinson and the Cramps never worked together, given the Chilton connection

they did!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqg0YVyieMw

xp That book has been on my too-read list, as has Tav Falco's Mondo Memphis stuff. Think he's done Vol 2 of that by now?

wait waht tyler what is the story with that!

I thought I had all the early Cramps stuff

Wiki says : recorded a one-off single ("Red Headed Woman") with The Cramps in 1984

yeah that's all i know! heard it on some homemade cramps rarities comp a million years ago.

whoa stop the presses, a Cramps record from 1984 that I haven't heard

hmm the single is not on Discogs but this comp has it:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Rockabilly-Psychosis-And-The-Garage-Disease/master/340231

on youtube i think

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Curse of the Alphastone sdtrk mentioned here, but have never heard it

http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/jimdickinson.htm

FAN CLUB FC 064/NR 761/FC 064CD

JIM DICKINSON: DELTA EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS COMPILATION, VOL.2: SPRING POEMS (LP/CD)
(a collection of songs from the motion picture soundtracks arranged and conducted by James Luther Dickinson: The Great Big Fish a) Beale Street Green b) The Saucers Are Landing c) Delta Getaway / The Curse Of The Alpha Stone a) Cross Talk b) Skin It Back c) Velvet Woman Painters Of The South (Ol' Miss Center For Study Of Southern Culture) a) Campton Races/Catfish Blues b) Beautiful Dreamer Southern Dust (University Of Texas Films, Austin TX) a) Hose Job b) Choke The Chicken c) Death Is A Fat Cop Down a) Max By The Tracks b) Live Bait c) Brass Monkey; cd-reissue with 'Vol.1: The Blues')

1990

His book is just yarn after yarn after yarn, with so many names flying in and out for a paragraph or two, it's hard to keep up. But then for a few years there he's playing on Spirit in the Dark or Wild Horses or Flamin' Groovies or with someone I'd never heard of let alone heard before. He ends more than a couple asides with "But that's another story" and it's a bummer those didn't make it in, too. Worth picking up.

Interesting. Will add it to my list of books to read

Great thread, hadn't seen it before. Also JD on the main Big Star and Chilton threads o course. Mentioned these 2017 releases in my Nashville Scene ballot comments I always add these imaginary categories):

Related Genealogically As Well As Musically Hon. Mention:
North Mississippi Allstars: Prayer For Peace, James Luther Dickinson: I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone: Lazarus Edition (also a Related Reissue)
North Mississippi Allstars wheel Dad through the Afterlife and vice-versa one more time, with bonus pepper candy encores. They also provide strong support for Rev. Sekou and themselves, on two albums (incl. the Rev.'s Related Top Ten In Times Like these) where the personal and political and tropes and rhetoric and blues and gospel and other strands of history and right nows are always ticking and clattering and pumping, and he’s the one with the compelling voice and eye. Dad rules his own album, natcherlly, more than ever with the added tracks. Not great but worth streaming.

Listened to his book through my local public library over a two day marathon binge. Really fantastic.

Updated xpost It Came From Memphis came out in November, editorial thing on Amazon says yeah you get Elvis and shit, but the emphasis is on the singular achievements of Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson, Furry Lewis and wrestler Sputnik Monroe. This is a book about the weirdos, winos and midget wrestlers who forged the rock and roll spirit, unwittingly changing the fabric of America. Music liberated that Memphis audience, and the world followed.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/71VEPxZCJIL.jpg

Also, another Gordon book, Memphis Rent Party, has stuff about Dickinson and Chilton--dunno if he recycles any of it:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/81EIppBYjvL.jpg