North Mississippi Allstars is an American rock/blues jam band from Hernando, Mississippi, founded in 1996. The band is composed of brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar, vocals) and Cody Dickinson (drums, keyboards, electric washboard), and Chris Chew (electric bass guitar). Duwayne Burnside, who formerly played second guitar in the band, is a son of R.l. Burnside (who has also played on some of the band's tracks).
Bonnie Raitt, (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues and R&B singer, songwriter, and guitarist who was born in Burbank, California, the daughter of Broadway musical star John Raitt. Raitt began playing guitar at an early age, something not a lot of her high school girlfriends did. "I had played a little at school and at camp," she later recalled in a July 2002 interview. "My parents would drag me out to perform for my family, like all parents do, but it was a hobby—nothing more...I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist.
We're really new but folks have been very kind to us thus far . We've been played by Steve Lamacq and Rachael did a live interview on his BBC 6 Music show at drive time when Chris Hawkins was guesting. We've made the bbc's forecast for bands for 2009: "The best new bands and singers have been selected by some of Britain's most influential tastemakers as part of the BBC's Sound of 2009 search." And we were put on by Mike Walsh, head of music at XFM Nice.
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Let me tell you a little about Junior Victor…
"Imagine Gary Wilmot wrestling a bear on the top
of a Lidl for a rare Faberge Egg that looks strikingly like Jagger"
– This is how the band like to describe their music.
Although a more accurate description would be an
IndiePunkRockRollPowerPop extravaganza.
The band consists of four members,
a Guitarist and singer {Paul Orwell}, a Lead Guitarist/Keys {John Baker},
a Bassist {Joe Lattimer}.
Lancashire born, acclaimed slide guitarist, Bryn Haworth, is also a singer songwriter and a top performer who has been delighting audiences with his own unique brand of rock, country and gospel blues for over 30 years.
Bryn came to London from Lancashire in the late sixties and joined "Les Fleur de Lys" a motown/soul band which became house band for Atlantic Records in England. He left the band in '69 and travelled to California; from there he toured extensively in the US in various American bands and was a founder member of Wolfgang...
