For the previous 12 months or so, guitarist Joey Williams has been closing North Mississippi Allstars reveals with Bishop Neal Roberson’s “Don’t Let The Satan Journey.” That made it a pure choose for Nonetheless Shakin’ (New West), the sturdy collective’s first LP in three years.
“We wished to seize that spirit for the album,” says Luther Dickinson, who co-founded the Allstars together with his brother, Cody, again in 1996.
Out June 6, Nonetheless Shakin’ is being billed as a “celebration” of the North Mississippi Allstars’ acclaimed 2000 debut, Shake Arms With Shorty. It additionally presents apparent proof that they haven’t misplaced a step in 1 / 4 century.
For his or her twelfth album, the Dickinsons welcomed three newbies with legendary pedigrees: Robert Kimbrough (youngest son of Junior), Duwayne Burnside (son of R.L.) and Grahame Lesh (son of late Grateful Lifeless bassist Phil Lesh). It’s the “sacred” pedal metal of Kashia Hunter, one other recent face, that offers “Don’t Let The Satan Journey” its religious edge. Allstar regulars embrace the Dickinsons, Williams (Blind Boys Of Alabama) and Rayfield “Ray Ray” Holloman (Eminem, Ne-Yo).
We’re proud to premiere “Don’t Let The Satan Journey.”
—Hobart Rowland
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