Blues band caters to rock V rollers who want to dance
■The North Mississippi Allstars shake, rattle and roll their
way to Taylor’s for a burst of bluegrass music
By Rebecca Newell
Oregon Daily Emerald
Recently featured on the Co
nan O’Brien Show, the North
Mississippi Allstars are a combo
of gritty country blues, aggressive
rock and some great musical
genes all mixed together. And
they’re playing at Taylor’s Bar
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Luther and Cody Dickinson
formed the band with friend
Chris Chew, and have hit the mu
sic world by storm with features
in Rolling Stone, Entertainment,
Time and Men’s Journal.
It’s no surprise that the band is
meeting with success. The Dick
inson brothers are the sons of leg
endary roots music producer Jim
Dickinson, and can call upon an
upbringing revolving around mu
sic. *
In the last few years, the All
stars have been playing more
than 150 performances a year,
sharing the stage with bands
such as Galactic and the Squirrel
Nut Zippers. Focusing their
sound to the region of Fred Mc
Dowell, the Allstars have multi
ple appeal.
“The energy is just right for our
room. It’s not so bluesy that it’s
too bluesy,” Estlund said. “There
(( We’ve never been out
west, but people rave
about it They say it’s
beautiful country and
bands love it [And] we
love college towns. We
grew up in a college
town.
Luther Dickinson
vocalist/guitarist
North Mississippi
Allstars
are so many influences and it ap
peals to so many people.
The opportunity to play at Tay
lor’s is just one of many perform
ances the Allstars booked on
their tour.
“This is our first coast-to-coast
headline tour since our record
courtesy of Chapman
North Mississippi Allstars recently appeared on ‘Late Night with Conan O’Brian.’
came out,” Luther Dickinson
said, calling from a pay phone in
Victor , Idaho, population 250.
Luther Dickinson sings and plays
the snaky slide guitar for the trio.
“We’ve never been out west,
but people rave about it. They
say it’s beautiful country and
bands love it. [And] we love col
lege towns. We grew up in a col
lege town.”
“Our music is constantly
changing and we’re playing new
material all the time,” Cody Dick
inson said, labeled a “monstrous
ly talented drummer” by Time
magazine.
“We’re a blues band, but we’re
really a rock ‘n’ roll band. It all
boils down to people wanting to
dance,” Luther Dickinson said.
The performance begins at 10
p.m. Wednesday night at Taylor’s
Bar and Grill, located at 894 East
13th Ave.
The charge is $6.00 at the door
and there are no advanced tickets
available.
Visit the Allstars site at
http ://•www. nmallstars .com/
‘Madness’ takes over at Leebrick
■ 99 Minutes of Midnight Madness’ examines the
multiplicities of live acting in 17 distinctive skits
By Tonya Alanez
Oregon Daily Emerald
Madness is in the midnight air
and spectators can experience a
99-minute dose on Friday and Sat
urday nights for only $5 a pop.
“99 Minutes of Midnight Mad
ness @ 11:11 p.m.,” a series of
short theatrical pieces, each aver
aging 10 minutes in length, de
buted Friday at the Lord Leebrick
Theatre Company.
The simplistic and intimate at
mosphere, with minimal props
and distractions, puts the pressure
on the actors to engage and hold
the audience's attention. But the
LLTC pulls it off with a combina
tion of compelling performances,
precise direction and skits ranging
frdm light-hearted to intense.
“Outscool” opens the show and
reinforces the mood throughout
the evening with original, live,
jazzy music by Richard Leebrick
on tenor sax, harmonica and vo
cals, Eric Colbin on bass guitar and
Javier Gonzalez on percussion.
The opening piece, “Tango at
the Santiago Hotel” by Lia Denae
and directed by Carol Horne fea
tures Nancy West as a solitary per
former portraying several kooky
characters in a San Francisco
boarding house. The quick, and
sometimes indistinct, shifts from
character to character made this
number confusing and hard to fol
low. Luckily, it was no indication
of what was to follow.
“Robot” by Daniel Durrant and
directed by Dale Brabb finds Gary
Lamoin as a disgruntled business
man building a robot to replace
himself. As he engages in a late
night conversation with a hobo, ef
fectively portrayed by James
Flagg, I was left wondering who
had a better grip on reality.
In the next performance, “Vaca
tions,” a youngster sitting at a bus
stop finds herself positively influ
enced by the eccentricities of a
woman living on the mental edge.
This is a whimsical offering by
Robert Wilson, directed by Tim
Guetterman, featuring Sparky
Roberts, Autumn Leebrick and Va
lerie McMahon.
Horne directs “Maggie” by
Gretchen McMartin, with West
ominously cast as Maggie, a
woman haunted by her neighbor’s
menacing voice — or is it the voice
within her own head? In the end,
this number left me unsettled by
Maggie’s depression, questioning
her sanity and stability.
A comedic number then makes
an appearance, with Steven Man
dell’s “The Cassowary Bird in the
Afternoon.” Roberts directs here
and the vignette features David
Beck and McMahon in a dynamic
performance as a mismatched
couple brought together by a per
sonal ad.
Larry Dobberstein’s “Coyote,”
directed by Brabb, couples Lam
oin and Brandon Burkeen as a pair
of traveling musicians on the road
to a footloose and fancy-free exis
99 Minutes of
Midnight Madness
@11:11 pm
What: Seven short theater pieces
When: 11:11 p.m. Friday and
Saturday
Where: Lord Leebrick Theatre, 540
Chamelton St,
Tickets: $5
Contact: Call 484*7670 for info and
to order advance tickets.
tence. Or so it appears, until
Roberts makes a brief and telling
appearance.
Under the direction of Michael
Fisher, William Mastrosimone’s
“Jujitsu” provides a chilling finish
to the evening — it’s a piece you
carry with you. This excerpt, from
a work entitled “Blinding Light,”
features McMahon in a gripping
performance as a woman embit
tered by an endless succession of
one-night stands, detailing her
fool-proof strategies for foiling the
ploys of the alpha males of the
world.
All in all, the LLTC has crafted
an engaging theater experience
well worth the time and the mon
ey. The series, running through
Sept. 2, consists of 17 individual
skits divided into three separate
sets. Each set will play for two
weekends of the total six-week
run. Tickets are available in ad
vance or at the door. LLTC is locat
ed at 540 Charnelton St. Call 484
7670 for more information.