![]() ![]() 3,392), I am playing drums for a great singer named Ironing Board Sam. As I drove south from Memphis, Tennessee, finally crossing the Mississippi state line, I read her welcome: “Welcome to Mississippi, the Birthplace of America’s Music.” I wanted a cross-country road trip because I love to see the landscape of our country every chance I can get, and on this trip, it was in abundance. I’ve just driven all the way from Seattle to Mississippi, which took about four days and nights as I tried to outmaneuver the snowstorm that walloped the Midwest and the East coast. I’m here again, my fourth time in a year, and it’s not just to play music, but also to learn. I love the blues and its progeny, jazz, but I will admit at the beginning of this story that I never quite understood the deep musicology of the delta - that is, until I started coming here and experiencing it on a regular basis. I am a rock musician by profession, and I was one of the early drummers in the Seattle-based grunge movement of the late ’80s and early ’90s, playing with bands like Skin Yard, Screaming Trees and Mad Season. Every time I find myself back in this recording studio, I am reminded of this eternal truth: fun kind of sticks to everything. Dickinson, are thumbtacked rather unceremoniously to the wall of the control room here at Dial Back Sound in Water Valley, Mississippi. These words, and a disheveled photo of Mr. These immortal words were spoken by the late, great American record producer Jim Dickinson, who worked with everyone from Aretha Franklin to Big Star.
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