James Luther Dickinson / Dr. John / Eric Clapton

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

Dixie Fried
New - LP - FDR 623
Sealed 2016 Limited Edition, Expanded 2LP Gatefold Reissue With 7 Previously Unreleased Tracks. Remastered From The Original Tapes. Includes Obi. Features Dr. John, An Uncredited Eric Clapton On Guitar And Others. “For With This Album Dickinson Gives A Voice More Authentic Than A Mere Preservationist. This Is Far Beyond The Earliest Dickinson Sounds From The Sun-Influenced "The Goat Dancers" Period. Indeed, The Guitar Solo On "Wine" Is A Fabulous Execution Worthy Of Junior Brown, While The Jackhammer Piano Is Full-On Honky-Tonk, And If It Were Not For Dickinson's Bulk You'd Think The Killer Himself Had Kicked Over The Piano Stool To Rip It Out. The Drums Can Barely Keep Up, And The Wet Voices Of Backup Singers Already Sneak In Notes They Will Scream Horizontally In The After Show Entertainment. And This Is Only The First Cut On The Album, Not The Best Cut On The Album. There Are, Perhaps, Certain Points Of Comparison With Early Recordings Of "Little Feat," To Which This Reviewer Can Only Respond: They Stole It All From Dickinson.” Bachelier, Amazon. more

Dixie Fried
New - LP - SD 8299
Sealed, Rare 1972 Original. Light Bottom Right Corner Crease & Few Light Seam Bumps. Features Dr. John And An Uncredited Eric Clapton On Guitar And Others. "Veteran Producer Jim Dickinson Had Been Well-established As A Trusted Producer And Sideman By The Time He Recorded An Album Of His Own In 1972. Atlantic Honcho Jerry Wexler Had Signed Dickinson And The Dixie Flyers, The Label's House Band For Nearly All Its Soul Recordings At The Time, To Record An Album. Only Dickinson Really Felt Up To It, And Dixie Fried Was The Result. Mixing Blues, Country, And Unapologetic Southern Boogie On Nine Tunes, Dickinson Sounded Something Like A Not-yet-formed Leon Russell Or Dr. John (The Latter Of Whom Played On The Album Extensively). His Wild, Eclectic Choice Of Songs Makes For A Mixed Bag In The End. The Sheer Barrelhouse Abandon Of "Wine" Is Surpassed Only By The New Orleans-style R&b Of The Title Track, Or The Carnival-barker Anthem "O How She Dances," A Strange And Fascinating Precursor To Tom Waits' Signature Style. On Bob Dylan's "John Brown" Dickinson Loses His Way A Bit, And His Voice (At Once Hesitant And Overzealous) Trips Him Up In A Number Of Places Throughout. A Gem To Be Sure, But One Of A Very Rough Cut Indeed, And Of Course This Factor May Hold Special Appeal To Some Listeners. But Understandably, Dickinson Stuck To Producing For Awhile After This One." AMG - John Duffy. more