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1. Shake ’Em On Down
2. Po Black Maddie>Skinny Woman>Po Black Maddie
3. Jumper On The Line
4. Bad Bad Pain
5. Down In Mississippi
6. Never In All My Days
7. Boomer’s Story
8. Psychedelic Sex Machine
9. Shimmy She Wobble>Station Blues
10. Friend Of Mine
11. Be So Glad
12. Snake Drive
13. Goin’ Home Part Two
14. Going Down South 

Total time: 1.3 hours
Hill Country Revue
North Mississippi Allstars
ATO

The North Mississippi Allstars have three fine albums of deliciously adulterated blues to their credit (four if you count their one-off 2001 project with John Medeski and Robert Randolph, an instrumental blues-gospel group called The Word). But those are all studio albums, and anybody lucky enough to score one of their shows online from sites such as bt.etree.org knows that these guys are even better live.

This is the first official live NMAS album, recorded at Bonnaroo 2004 in Manchester, Tennessee. Brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson (slide guitar and drums, respectively) and Chris Chew (bass) have always played like every song is to beat the devil. The Dickinsons’ dad, legendary producer Jim, remixed the show as well as guesting on keyboards and B3 organ.

And putting the “revue” in Hill Country Revue are R.L. Burnside and descendants Duwayne, Cody and Garry; Widespread Panic keyboardist JoJo Hermann; the Rising Star Fife & Drum Band; and Chris Robinson.

Need more references? How about Time magazine, who in a special report on Mississippi called the group “a hot little blues-rock band that’s bringing the hill-country sound to a new audience of Gen Y kids.”

external links
artist’s website
amazon.com
iTunes music store

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