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August 16, 2009

The Associated Press: Obituaries in the news

Jim Dickinson

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Jim Dickinson, a musician and producer who helped shape the Memphis sound in an influential career that spanned more than four decades, died Saturday morning. He was 67.

His wife, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, said he died in a Memphis, Tenn., hospital after three months of heart and intestinal bleeding problems. The couple lived in Hernando, Miss.

Dickinson recently had bypass surgery and was undergoing rehabilitation at Methodist University Hospital, his wife said.

Perhaps best known as the father of Luther and Cody Dickinson, two-thirds of the Grammy-nominated North Mississippi Allstars, Jim Dickinson managed an outsider's career in an insider's industry. His work in the 1960s and '70s is still influential as young artists rediscover the classic sound of Memphis from that era — a melting pot of rock, pop, blues, country, and rhythm and blues.

A dabbler in music while in college and later in shows at the famed Overton Park Shell in Memphis, Dickinson spent time on the road playing live in both his own projects, like Mudboy and the Neutrons, and with others until Luther was born. He gave up the road, built a home studio and settled in to a hard-scrabble life he jokingly compared to hustling.

Dickinson's career touched on some of the most important music made in the '60s and '70s. He recorded the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" in Muscle Shoals, Ala.; formed the Atlantic Records house band The Dixie Flyers to record with Aretha Franklin and other R&B legends; inspired a legion of indie rock bands through his work with Big Star; collaborated with Ry Cooder on a number of movie scores, including "Paris, Texas"; and played with Bob Dylan on his Grammy-winning return to prominence, "Time Out of Mind."

His later work as a producer veered wildly across genres, skipping from Mudhoney to T Model Ford and Lucero.

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Jackson/USA (AP) Der legendäre amerikanische Musik-Produzent Jim Dickinson ist im Alter von 67 Jahren gestorben. Er erlag nach Angaben seiner Frau Mary Lindsay Dickinson am Samstagmorgen in einer Klinik in Memphis im US-Staat Tennessee einem Herzleiden. Dickinson hatte kürzlich eine Bypass-Operation. Der Produzent arbeitete mit Größen wie Ry Cooder, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin und den Rolling Stones. Auch Dickinsons Söhne Luther und Cody sind im Musikgeschäft.
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Muere productor y músico de Memphis Jim Dickinson | Entretenimiento| El Nacional.com

 

El artista grabó con astros como Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Big Star, los Rolling Stones y Sam y Dave, produciendo además varias de sus obras

15 de agosto 2009 | 10:05 pm - AP  

 

Jim Dickinson, músico y productor que ayudó a dar forma al sonido de Memphis durante una carrera influyente de más de cuatro décadas, murió el sábado. Tenía 67 años.

Su esposa, Mary Lindsay Dickinson, dijo que el productor murió en un hospital de Memphis, Tenesí, luego de tres meses de problemas cardíacos y hemorragia intestinal. La pareja vivía en Hernando, Misisipí.

Dickinson había tenido una operación de desvío coronario hace poco y se estaba recuperando en el Hospital de la Universidad Metodista cuando murió cerca de las 4:30 de la mañana, dijo su mujer.

Aunque quizás era más conocido por ser el padre de Luther y Cody Dickinson, integrantes del trío ganador del Grammy North Mississippi Allstars, Dickinson grabó con astros como Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Big Star, los Rolling Stones y Sam y Dave, produciendo además varias de sus obras .

Muere productor y músico de Memphis Jim Dickinson | Entretenimiento| El Nacional.com
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Police Demand ID From Bob Dylan After N.J. Resident Calls To Report Someone Wandering Around - cbs4denver.com

Aug 14, 2009 5:39 pm US/Mountain

You're Bob Dylan? Police Want Rock Legend's ID

NEW YORK (AP) ― Rock legend Bob Dylan was treated like a complete unknown by police in a New Jersey shore community when a resident called to report someone wandering around the neighborhood.

Dylan was in Long Branch, about a two-hour drive south of New York City, on July 23 as part of a tour with Willie Nelson and John Mellencamp that was to play at a baseball stadium.

A 24-year-old police officer apparently was unaware of who Dylan is and asked him for identification, Long Branch business administrator Howard Woolley said Friday.

"I don't think she was familiar with his entire body of work," Woolley said.

The incident began at 5 p.m. (2100 GMT) when a resident said a man was wandering around a low-income, predominantly minority neighborhood several blocks from the oceanfront looking at houses.

The police officer drove up to Dylan, who was wearing a blue jacket, and asked him his name. According to Woolley, the following exchange ensued:

"What is your name, sir?" the officer asked.

"Bob Dylan," Dylan said.

"OK, what are you doing here?" the officer asked.

"I'm on tour," the singer replied.

A second officer, also in his 20s, responded to assist the first officer. He, too, apparently was unfamiliar with Dylan, Woolley said.

The officers asked Dylan for identification. The singer of such classics as "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Blowin' in the Wind" said that he didn't have any ID with him, that he was just walking around looking at houses to pass some time before that night's show.

The officers asked Dylan, 68, to accompany them back to the Ocean Place Resort and Spa, where the performers were staying. Once there, tour staff vouched for Dylan.

The officers thanked him for his cooperation.

"He couldn't have been any nicer to them," Woolley added.

How did it feel? A Dylan publicist did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Friday.
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Jim Dickinson (born James Luther Dickinson, November 15, 1941, Little Rock, Arkansas, died August 15, 2009, Memphis, Tennessee

Jim Dickinson (born James Luther Dickinson, November 15, 1941, Little Rock, Arkansas, died August 15, 2009, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American record producer, pianist and singer who fronted, among others, the Memphis based band, Snake Eyes.


Dickinson moved to Memphis, Tennessee at an early age. After attending school at Baylor University, he returned to Memphis and played on recording sessions for Bill Justis, and at Chips Moman's American Studios. Dickinson recorded what has been called the last great record on the Sun label, "Cadillac Man" b/w "My Babe" by the Jesters, playing piano and singing lead on both sides, even though he was not an actual member of the group. In the late 1960s, Dickinson joined with fellow Memphis musicians Charlie Freeman, Michael Utley, Tommy McClure and Sammy Creason; this group became known as the "Dixie Flyers" and provided backup for musicians recording for Atlantic Records. Perhaps their best-known work was for Aretha Franklin's 1970 Spirit in the Dark. In 1971, Dickinson also played piano on The Rolling Stones' hit Wild Horses and on The Flamin Groovies' track Teenage Head. In 1972 Dickinson released his first solo album, Dixie Fried, which was a mixture of songs by Bob Dylan, Carl Perkins and Furry Lewis.

In the 1970s he became known as a producer, recording Big Star's Third in 1974, as well as serving as co-producer with Alex Chilton on the 1979 Chilton album Like Flies on Sherbert. He has produced Willy DeVille, Green on Red, Mojo Nixon, The Replacements, Tav Falco's Panther Burns, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins, among many others, and in 1977 an aural documentary of Memphis' Beale Street, Beale Street Saturday Night, which featured performances by Sid Selvidge, Furry Lewis and Dickinson's band Mud Boy and the Neutrons. He has also worked with Ry Cooder and with Dylan. In 1998, he produced Mudhoney's, Tomorrow Hit Today.[[2]]

His sons Luther and Cody, who played on his 2002 solo effort Free Beer Tomorrow, and the 2006 Jungle Jim and the Voodoo Tiger, have achieved success on their own as the North Mississippi Allstars.

[edit] Snake Eyes

In 2007 Dickinson played the Memphis-based rock band, Snake Eyes. The band, formed by Memphis musican Greg Roberson (former Reigning Sound drummer), featured Jake Vest, Toby Vest, and Adam Hill. While the band disbanded in October 2008, the members did complete two full albums, slated for a November 2009 release; though Dickinson's cardiac issues, which started in May of 2009, set back that release date. Roberson went on to form another Memphis group, Ten High & the Trashed Romeos.[[3]]

[edit] Death

Dickinson died August 15, 2009 at Methodist Extended Care Hospital in Memphis following triple bypass heart surgery.[1][1]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Solo albums

  • Dixie Fried (1972, Atlantic). - CD issued on SepiaTone, 2002
  • A Thousand Footprints in the Sand (live) (1997, Last Call/Sony, France)
  • Free Beer Tomorrow (2002, Artemis)
  • Jungle Jim And The Voodoo Tiger (2006, Memphis Int'l)
  • Fishing with Charlie (Spoken Word) (2006, Birdman)
  • Killers from Space (2007, Memphis Int'l)

  • [edit] With Mudboy And The Neutrons

  • Known Felons in Drag (1986, New Rose)
  • Negro Streets At Dawn (1993, New Rose)
  • They Walk Among Us (1995, Koch)

As a compiler

  • Beale Street Saturday Night (1979, Memphis Development)
  • Delta Experimental Project Vol I (1988, New Rose/Fan Club, France)
  • Delta Experimental Project Vol II (1990, New Rose/Fan Club, France)
  • Delta Experimental Project Vol III (2003, Birdman)

References

  1. ^ a b c http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2009/aug/15/memphis-musician-jim-dickinson-dies-67/

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