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Post by rk on Mar 4, 2015 19:36:58 GMT
Last night my son and I made our 2nd trip together to the Carnegie Music Hall in Homestead(Munhall) Pa. just outside of Pittsburgh. The first time we went there was Nov. 2, 2008 to see Back Door Slam Open for Gov`t Mule. It was our FIRST time each of seeing Davy play live and my son, Dalton`s, first time seeing the MULE. Last night was NMO...North Mississippi Osborne Experience. It combined two bands that we both love and have seen before, North Mississippi Allstars and the Anders Osborne Band. Luther Dickinson of NMA and Anders of AOB have been collaborating a few years now and have developed their kindred spirits into a great experience of Live music into one long live show ! It combined 6 musicians in different configurations and alot of instrument changes and duty swapping. All 3 of the NMA guys, Luther Dickinson, brother Cody Dickinson and long time friend Lightnin` Malcolm are all multi instrumentalists and kept the fans guessin` who was gonna play what next. Anders Osborne Band is made up of Anders on guitar and vocals, Carl Dufrene on bass and back up vocals and Brady Blade on drums. I`ve got almost 100 pictures and can only post 3 at a time so I`m going to progress slowly over some days to get all of the things I want to say about them out and hopefully give the proper pictures to help paint the picture. NMA is my second most seen band only next to Gov`t Mule. Both bands had recently got together for about 3 weeks to record a new album together and now are out on tour supporting it and their own seperate bands all at the same time. They have a limited amout of numbered hard copies of the CD available at the merch counter singned by Luther, Cody and Anders. Most of the new releases are being sold as downloads on the internet. I bought 3 copies last night.....one for me, one for Dalton and one for my brother Karl. Karl and Dalton are my two main go to guys for musical conversation and company for shows, with my wife now #3. So to start off with.......here`s a picture of 2 of the CDS and my ticket then 2 pictures of the stage before anybody came out, with everything 6 guys could want to have 2 hours and 55 minutes of fun providing LIVE music for their fans ! |
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Post by rk on Mar 5, 2015 20:23:29 GMT
Each night the show starts off with Luther coming out and introducing the night`s music as: The North Mississippi Osborne Experience>>>>>>> Then Luther and Anders do a song from the North Mississippi Allstar`s album called Keys To The Kingdom. The song is called Let It Roll and was written after Luther and Cody`s father`s death in 2009 and released on the KTTK album in 2011: Then Anders leaves and out comes Cody on drums, with a keyboard to his side and Lightnin` Malcom comes out with a bass guitar. They then start into some old time favorites of the NMA band for many years. Songs from and about their lives growing up in Mississippi around old bluesmen who were legendary like R.L. Burnside and Otha Turner and Mississippi Fred McDowell and Jr. Kimbrough etc. Songs like Horshoe, and Po Black Maddie/Skinny Woman: And then start swappin` instruments and playing songs like All Night Long. Which is now a song that Luther and Lighnin` switch out on mid-song. I love Luther`s bass playin` as well as his guitar playin`: And it goes on for a bit with just the North Mississippi Allstars ............. There are no videos up from our show so I`m finding other examples.................. |
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Post by rk on Mar 6, 2015 15:28:05 GMT
Midway through their opening set of NMA songs, all 3 came to the front of the stage unplugged to do their song ML , which is also called Going Home by some. ML is a song dedicated to their mother Mary Lindsay Dickinson who mostly stays at the home recording studio in Mississippi called the Zebra Ranch. It is where many of their early works and more were recorded. It was their father, Jim Dickinsons place. He and Mary moved out of Memphis area when Cody said he wanted to go to school and live with black people. The area they moved to near Hernando was mostly inhabited by Black farmers and bohemian/hippy type whites escaping the city life. They were in an area where R.L. Burnside`s family live and Luther and Cody grew up playing music with the later generations of the Burnside family and others. I first saw Lightnin Malcom about 7 years ago when he and Cedric Burnside, R.L.`s grandson, had a duo called simply Cedric Burnside and Lightnin` Malcolm. Cedric on drums and Lightnin` on Telecaster. When Cedric was a teenager his grandfather bought him his first drum kit to go on the road. Similarly Luther`s father told Luther at about 16 that now you`ve got a guitar, a car and an amplifier and you can go out and make money playin` music. Luther and Cody played guitars as young kids, but after their father bought Allen Jackson`s drum kit from Stax records and started bringing Jim Keltner around the house Cody moved to the drums to acompany Luther and let his talents develope..........and here they are still doin` it. Cody had to decide between taking finals to graduate high school or going with his band to play the anuual SXSW festival in Austin Texas. I think you know the answer........ Anyhow.....ML is a fast picking instrument only song highlighting Cody`s talents on the guitar. They were right at the edge of the stage and luckily we were right down front as some was so soft I doubt people farther back could hear it all. The crowd was very quiet and respectful.......which is a seldom heard fact at most shows today..........Both Luther & Codynoticed my Make A Move shirt from The Hill Country Revue band that Cody founded and Luther contributed to. Lightnin` wouldn`t look me in the face as he remembered me catching him tryin` to flirt with my wife when we saw them last fall. He thinks himself as a bit of a lady`s man. We always hang at the merch counter with Benjamin who always treats us right and keeps us informed. That`s where Jacki had to straghten out Lightnin` while I was in the bathroom. No problem; just another memory of concert going. Redheads learn to fight `em off at an early age ! |
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Post by rk on Mar 7, 2015 13:25:37 GMT
Cody grew up with the Burnside brothers, Gary & Duwayne playing music and experimenting with recording and such. Both are R.L. `s sons. Luther was amazed at Otha Turner and his music and way of living. Luther`s father was taught all his ways of playing piano by older black men in the area he grew up in, and encouraged Luther to have a relation with Otha to season him to music and how to be a complete person without all the frills of "civilization". Otha lived on his farm and had or made or grew or raised nearly everything he needed to make music and survive. Otha made his own fifes and had his own fife and drum band. NMA was conceived by Luther after a night of eating mushrooms and realizing that it was his duty to keep the music alive that was originated by his friends and neighbors who the rest of the world needed reminded of, their existence and music. Luther was the first person to ever tune a guitar to play with Otha`s fife and Luther was the first person to ever capture Otha`s music for tape,vinyl, CD, or whatever. Their relationship was lifelong and Luther was quite saddened at his death. North Mississippi immortalize Otha at nearly every performance by doing My Babe, Shimmy She Wabble, and Sittin` On Top Of The World. Here`s a 1972 clip about Otha, his life and music with other info links: www.folkstreams.net/film,59 Here`s the first time Luther tuned to play with Otha and his fife and drum band in public: Here`s NMA doin` Shimmy She Wabble and Station Blues(Sittin` On Top Of The World) with Otha`s granddaughter on drums and later fife in honor of Otha and his music. Otha`s grandaughter, Sharde Thomas, is like a little sister to Luther. Here`s Sharde and Duwayne Burnside in an official video they did covering Jr. Kimbrough`s Meet Me In The City. NOW one of the songs they love to do LIVE in Otha style, and he is spoke of in the lyrics. It is called Granny Does Your Dog Bite and everyone bangs a drum and heads out into the audience. Not all audiences know how to react to this. The other night it went down perfect and some were up in the balcony bangin` away. Last fall we saw them with Sharde on board too at Bucknell University with a bunch of stuffed shirts that thought it was rediculous especially ME on my feet clapping, eggin` them on and chanting along. Here they are in Oxford Mississippi(Home of Ol` Miss University) where my niece will soon graduate and her and my brother sometimes see NMA: GDYDB is how they made their transition from NMA music to Anders Osborne Band music. |
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Post by rk on Mar 8, 2015 12:26:21 GMT
Then after GDYDB Luther and Cody leave the stage and Ligntnin` stays as second guitarist for the Anders Osborne Band. I have been listening to Anders in his band and him in other configurations for about 5 or6 years and we first saw the Anders Osborne band in Johnstown Pa. in the summer of 2012 at the annual Flood City Music Festival and were totally amazed and inspired. What a power house trio; that can still bring it down to a whisper. We`ve been wanting to see them again since that first encounter. Unfortunately Ander`s drummer, Eric Bolivar has taken ill. We`ve heard kidney problems.....possibly transplant. We were saddened to know we would not see him, but we were excited to see the new drummer for Anders, Brady Blade. He`s another powerhouse, drummer extrodinare. He and Carl Dufrene on Bass are on fire and tearin` it up behind Anders hard boogie, head thrashin`, energy filled music. And when it`s not that it`s toned down to let Anders voice and soft expression come through like silk being formed for lasting comfort. This is a special trio. So then they start into Anders Osborne band music and this is what we`ve been waiting almost 3 years to hear again. Brady keeps a hard beat and Carl is all over the stage, hair tossing, face making and just being thoroughly entertaining all while being a hard thumpin` bassman. And Anders has so much to offer. He`s a prolific songwriter, like Luther, and can write songs in all kinds of styles. I especially like the New orleans flavor he bring to a lot of his songs. He`s got a great voice and stage presence and his guitar rips ! Here`s a couple examples of it. Here`s a more toned down song from AOB & Malcolm and Luther on his coffee can, with Carl doin` smoother bass on his Hoffner. |
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Post by rk on Mar 9, 2015 21:47:25 GMT
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Post by rk on Mar 10, 2015 11:29:59 GMT
Now it`s about 2 hours plus into the show and everyone leaves the stage for about 5 minutes then NMA came back out alone for another 45 minutes doin` more NMA stuff: |
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Post by rk on Mar 10, 2015 21:01:16 GMT
Then at the end of NMA`s second set Anders came out and did We Bid You Goodnight as I hear they did at all, or at least most shows. Then Cody on keyboards and Anders on guitar and vocals did Katrina. And that`s all she wrote................................ I used to make lengthy posts like this with pictures and youtubes and every other dang thing on the old NMA site(THE BLUFF) and on Rory Gallagher sites about Davy Knowles, but those aren`t up and running anymore...........Anyhow, this is what I do to try and get people to go check out LIVE music and to buy what the musicians sell. They cannot survive when everyone is just doin` the free and easy download and swap $#!+ all the time. If you appretiate the musicians you listen to..............help them eat and pay the rent too !!! BUY THEIR MUSIC AND SEE THEIR SHOWS WHEN IT IS POSSABLE. I have seen Luther more times than any other singer/songwiter/frontman/guitarist.......Except for Warren Haynes. AND Luther has always been friendly, amazing on stage, and inspiring as a person as well as a musician. |
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Post by Rusty Fingers on Mar 13, 2015 16:20:33 GMT
Great pic of you and Luther, Rick. Thanks for all the vids.  |
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Post by 51beachbum on Mar 14, 2015 0:29:09 GMT
Anders Osborne is on Danielle Schnebelen's Ep just released this week. Her band guitarist is Brandon Miller.
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Post by rk on Apr 3, 2015 13:20:50 GMT
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