The Associated Press: Obituaries in the newsJim 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.
August 16, 2009
The Associated Press: Obituaries in the news
Musik-Produzent Jim Dickinson in Memphis gestorben - Yahoo! Nachrichten Deutschland
Musik-Produzent Jim Dickinson in Memphis gestorben - Yahoo! Nachrichten DeutschlandMusik-Produzent Jim Dickinson in Memphis gestorben
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.
Muere productor y músico de Memphis Jim Dickinson | Entretenimiento| El Nacional.com
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 .
Police Demand ID From Bob Dylan After N.J. Resident Calls To Report Someone Wandering Around - cbs4denver.com
Police Demand ID From Bob Dylan After N.J. Resident Calls To Report Someone Wandering Around - cbs4denver.comAug 14, 2009 5:39 pm US/MountainYou'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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