1. James Luther Dickinson was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the band Mud Boy and the Neutrons, based in Memphis, Tennessee.
14 Facts About Jim Dickinson
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Jim Dickinson was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and raised in Chicago and Memphis.
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Jim Dickinson initially attended Baylor University as a drama major before graduating from Memphis State University, where he became acquainted with the pioneering music journalist Stanley Booth.
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The young and eager Jim Dickinson produced and oversaw a series of blistering sessions involving bands like the Bitter Ind, and the Wallabies.
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Unable to acclimate to life in Miami and the variegated production styles of Wexler, Tom Dowd, and Arif Mardin, Jim Dickinson heeded the advice of Duane Allman and left the group to pursue a solo career in 1971.
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Jim Dickinson appeared in Beale Street Saturday Night, a 1977 aural documentary of Memphis's Beale Street, which featured performances by Sid Selvidge, Furry Lewis and Dickinson's band, Mud Boy and the Neutrons.
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Jim Dickinson contributed production and instrumentation to various recordings released on the underground Memphis Tennessee record label Barbarian Records.
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Jim Dickinson played electric piano and pump organ on Bob Dylan's 1997 album Time Out of Mind.
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In May 1999, Dickinson participated in a one-time collaboration with Jules Shear, Harvey Brooks, Paul Q Kolderie, Chuck Prophet, Sean Slade, and Winston Watson to record the album Raisins in the Sun, released by Rounder Records in 2001.
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Jim Dickinson made a recording with Pete Kember of Spacemen 3.
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In 2003, Jim Dickinson briefly appeared in The Road to Memphis, part of Martin Scorsese's television production The Blues.
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Prophet and klipschutz were amused but not disappointed that Jim Dickinson changed some of the lyrics, according to an interview with Prophet.
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In 2007 Jim Dickinson played with the Memphis-based rock band Snake Eyes.
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Jim Dickinson died August 15,2009, at Methodist Extended Care Hospital in Memphis, following triple-bypass heart surgery.