North Mississippi Allstars

Doors at 6:00 pm | Show at 6:30 pm • $25 Advance | $30 DOS | 21+

Still Shakin’ is a celebration of our life-changing first album, Shake Hands with Shorty, which we released 25 years ago, and a love letter of appreciation to everyone who supported us and kept us in the game all these years. Touring this album cycle into 2026 will mark thirty years since we started North Mississippi Allstars, and we couldn’t resist being commemorating both of those anniversaries. Rather than focus on the old material, we decided to record new music in the spirit of our debut. 

My brother Cody and I started the Allstars in 1996 as a loose collective of musicians from our North Mississippi home. We were inspired by our father, Jim Dickinson, as well as by our neighbors and musical elders: RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Otha Turner, and Fred McDowell. Our first national tour was backing RL on the Ass Pocket of Whiskey tour in 1997, selling out shows in the US and Canada. Kenny Brown hired us and showed us the ropes. That experience blew my mind. Cody and I have been on the road ever since. 

When we started the Allstars, we played Mississippi music as straight and traditional as we could, but it evolved. While we were playing a residency on Beale Street in 1998, we realized we could incorporate our previous style of psych-rock improvisation and create our own sound. The idea of using folk and blues melodies and lyrics as vehicles for interpretation and improvisation made a lot of sense to us. We recorded our debut while we were still intoxicated from growing up and hanging out at Otha’s G.O.A.T. picnics and spending Sunday nights at Junior’s juke joint. We were under the influence of the Sacred Steel music, and those first two collections literally changed our lives.