IF YOU GOWhat: North Mississippi Allstars featuring Lightnin’ Malcolm.When: 8 p.m. Saturday.Where: Track 29, 1400 Market St.Admission: $16 in advance, $18 at the door (plus $3 fee for ages 18-20).Phone: 521-2929.Venue website: www.track29.co.
Less than a year after wowing audiences at Riverbend, the incendiary blues/rock trio North Mississippi Allstars will return to Chattanooga Saturday to make their debut at Track 29.
The Allstars were founded in the hills of Northern Mississippi in 1996 by Chris Chew (bass) and brothers Luther Dickinson (guitar) and Cody Dickinson (drums), the sons of Memphis blues legend Jim Dickinson.
In addition to their father, the Dickinsons were avid students of the area’s rich musical history, growing up cheek by jowl with celebrated bluesmen such as R.L. Burnside and Fred McDowell.
In a 2008 interview, Luther Dickinson said he was having trouble remaining interested in the rock band he was playing in when the idea for the Allstars came to him — not quite in a dream, but close.