Free Beer Tomorrow

Free Beer Tomorrow

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It's taken Memphis legend James Luther Dickinson 30 years to follow his solo debut, Dixie Fried, with this CD, which he describes as "the sound of a drunken circus band staggering down the road." Perhaps that's how long it took Dickinson to perfect the art of making his music collapse and weave in all the right places. Or maybe he was just absorbed in producing brilliant albums for other musicians--Ry Cooder, Big Star, the Replacements--and playing soul-fired piano for everyone from Petula Clark to the Stones and Dylan. Despite the shambling undercurrent of this disc, it's a wise and subtle-but-raw blend of roots styles, from soul ballads to folk songs to string-band blues, all colored by Dickinson's beef-jerky vocal cords, silken saloon piano, and brilliant orchestrations. Try as he might to sound like a friendly tough guy with numbers like the swinging, hilarious dis "A**hole" and the jug-band tune "Bound to Lose," where he howls about bad-luck riverboat gamblers like a bull mastiff, Dickinson's a softie. His aching cover of Charles Brown's "It's Rainin'" and the lovely honky-tonker "If I Could Only Fly" sound plucked straight from his heart. --Ted Drozdowski

Free Beer Tomorrow, Music, James Luther Dickinson, Blue-Eyed Soul, Blues, Pop, Rock/Pop

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