SOME FRIDAY NIGHT BLUES

Tonight’s featured band – The North Mississippi Allstars! The band is composed of brothers Luther (guitar, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards), and Chris Chew (electric bass guitar), and was formed in 1996. The Dickinson brothers were raised on and around blues.

I first saw them as an opening act for John Hiatt a couple of years ago at the Tennessee Theater, and to the crowds delight came back on stage as Hiatt’s backup band. Together they were awesome! They are the music on the album “Master of Disaster,” which was produced by Jim Dickinson (Luther and Cody’s father), and anyone else with John is less than par in my opinion.

The Allstars will be in Knoxville this coming Thursday evening for the second of the summer's Sundown in the City concerts. I will be there!

It's Friday night, I got the blues playing and I'm just getting into my third beer and the feeling is a great! Blues, played by an accomplished Coricidin bottle slide master, is even better!

In case you do not know, Duane Allman of The Allman Brothers Band was probably the first to begin using an empty glass Coricidin bottle as a guitar slide. Many other slide guitarists have followed his lead, such as Bonnie Raitt, Rory Gallagher, and Gary Rossington of Lynyrd Skynyrd. The bottles eventually went out of production by the early 1980s, but you can buy replicas today. One vintage bottle is on eBay, right now, for $20!