The Blue Note Presents:
North Mississippi All Stars
Powder Mill
Thu, March 22, 2012
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
The Blue Note (MO)$15 in Advance $17 Day of Show
Tickets
This event is all ages
A limited quantity of reserved balcony tables are available by request at our box office or by calling (573) 874 1944. Please note that you must purchase all four tickets at the table for a reservation. IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE 21, please be prepared to pay a $2 cash minor surcharge at the door in addition to purchasing a ticket.
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The North Mississippi Allstars were founded in 1996; a product of a very special time for modern Mississippi country blues. RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Otha Turner and their musical families were at their peak touring the world, making classic records, and doing the all-night boogie at Jr's Juke Joint and Otha's BBQ Goat picnics -- the music and the culture rich as the black Mississippi dirt.
We used to drive down wide-eyed and open-eared to watch and listen to these giants among men, the kings of the hills playing their music with their people for their people. The musical traditions passing from generation to generation. Down at Otha's we used to boogie in the dirt, dust, and gravel. Old ladies teachin' the young girls how to shake 'em on down. The sweaty walls of Jr's Juke Joint used to vibrate and amplify the all night long moonshine madness. The corn liquor inspired a very unique psychedelic trance blues. The multi-generational musical families gave the old-field hollers a very aggressive, loud edge, modern, electric, country blues. Young, outsider musicians couldn't just hang out and hide in the corner, you had to play. It felt like it was an insult not to. The elder's requesting you to play their own songs. You had to come on with the come on.
For us, the experience goes back another generation. In the middle 60s, at the Memphis Country Blues Festivals, Mudboy and the Neutrons, our father Jim Dickinson, Lee Baker, Sid Selvidge and Jimmy Crosthwait experienced the cultural collision of wise blues men and crazy white kids with Furry Lewis, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes and Hill Country master Mississippi Fred McDowell. This is the World Boogie.
We used to drive down wide-eyed and open-eared to watch and listen to these giants among men, the kings of the hills playing their music with their people for their people. The musical traditions passing from generation to generation. Down at Otha's we used to boogie in the dirt, dust, and gravel. Old ladies teachin' the young girls how to shake 'em on down. The sweaty walls of Jr's Juke Joint used to vibrate and amplify the all night long moonshine madness. The corn liquor inspired a very unique psychedelic trance blues. The multi-generational musical families gave the old-field hollers a very aggressive, loud edge, modern, electric, country blues. Young, outsider musicians couldn't just hang out and hide in the corner, you had to play. It felt like it was an insult not to. The elder's requesting you to play their own songs. You had to come on with the come on.
For us, the experience goes back another generation. In the middle 60s, at the Memphis Country Blues Festivals, Mudboy and the Neutrons, our father Jim Dickinson, Lee Baker, Sid Selvidge and Jimmy Crosthwait experienced the cultural collision of wise blues men and crazy white kids with Furry Lewis, Bukka White, Sleepy John Estes and Hill Country master Mississippi Fred McDowell. This is the World Boogie.
Powder Mill
"One of the best rock albums of 2010 came creeping out of the Ozarks stinking of meth and misery. Powder Mill, a grizzled Missouri quartet, felt like Southern rock’s answer to Dead Moon: a band of outsider survivalists who understood greatness and sounded like they had lived hard pursuing it."
-The Washington Post (Chris Richards, 2011)
Powder Mill's music has been compared to a junk yard dog chained to a neighborhood meth lab somewhere in the American mid-west. Ferocious, but familiar. Country stories drenched in Americana, accompanied by slopbucket roots rock. It started as the first studio session for an album Jesse Charles Hammock II(Shady Deal, Jim Dickinson's Killers From Space) planned to release in 2008. Soon it took on a life of its own, flourishing in the Missouri backwoods. Shortly after it was decided the music had to be heard...far beyond the Ozark hills from which it spawned. Powder Mill took on a different approach than most. They did not hit the road. They built a studio from the ground up. They wrote music. Alot of music. And they have released an album every year since.
Each album has received higher praise than the last from the likes of fans, critics, and music publications. Respected artists such as John Popper, Shooter Jennings, and Ray Wylie Hubbard also have given high praise to this little band from the woods that could.
With their first European tour under their belts in 2011 and a new album on the way in 2012, (produced by members of The North Mississippi All Stars), its plain to see Powder Mill's relentless approach to making music is striking a chord with listeners all over the world.
-The Washington Post (Chris Richards, 2011)
Powder Mill's music has been compared to a junk yard dog chained to a neighborhood meth lab somewhere in the American mid-west. Ferocious, but familiar. Country stories drenched in Americana, accompanied by slopbucket roots rock. It started as the first studio session for an album Jesse Charles Hammock II(Shady Deal, Jim Dickinson's Killers From Space) planned to release in 2008. Soon it took on a life of its own, flourishing in the Missouri backwoods. Shortly after it was decided the music had to be heard...far beyond the Ozark hills from which it spawned. Powder Mill took on a different approach than most. They did not hit the road. They built a studio from the ground up. They wrote music. Alot of music. And they have released an album every year since.
Each album has received higher praise than the last from the likes of fans, critics, and music publications. Respected artists such as John Popper, Shooter Jennings, and Ray Wylie Hubbard also have given high praise to this little band from the woods that could.
With their first European tour under their belts in 2011 and a new album on the way in 2012, (produced by members of The North Mississippi All Stars), its plain to see Powder Mill's relentless approach to making music is striking a chord with listeners all over the world.
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