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The return of world boogie.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 30-SEP-05 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The return of world boogie.(Festivals)(Friends' deaths and fatal floods behind them, this band is ready to party)

Article Excerpt
Byline: Carolyn Lamberson The Register-Guard

A album called "Electric Blue Watermelon" doesn't sound as if it would be about death.

Play the latest disc from the North Mississippi Allstars and you'd never guess it's an album born of mourning. It doesn't sound like a dirge.

Instead, it's the band's brand of "world boogie,' a rocking, bluesy, country record that has a lot of jammy undertones.

For Allstars frontman Luther Dickinson, the recent years have seen a lot of death.

Lee Baker, a guitarist and longtime friend of Dickinson's father, producer Jim Dickinson, was murdered in 1996.

Otha Turner, the last surviving master of the Mississippi back-country fife-and-drum tradition, died in 2003.

And on Sept. 1, Hill Country bluesman R.L....

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