North Mississippi Allstars

The North Mississippi Allstars cover Junior Kimbrough and collaborate with fife and drum traditionalist Othar Turner, proving they're the real deal in the process. Fat slide guitar drips off easy tunes steeped in blues, country and African rhythms. These guys will impress anyone who thinks rock music died with Duane Allman.

Hard-driving blues foursome gets a little too caught up in the jam on their first two albums,
these guys -- led by brothers Cody and Luther Dickinson, who both sing and play drums
and guitar, respectively -- would open a vein and bleed all over a crunching riff in some
voodoo religious rite that hearkened all the great ancestral blues spirits of northern
Mississippi. Their third album, Polaris, doesn't do that. It is immersed not in blood... More >