North Mississippi Allstars will return with Still Shakin’ on June 6, 2025 via New West Records. The 11-Track set was produced by Luther & Cody Dickinson and was primarily recorded at the Dickinson family studio, Zebra Ranch, in Independence, MS. It follows their acclaimed 2022 album Set Sail, which MOJO said captured “the lightning in a bottle groove that marks out all the best Southern Soul,” while No Depression said it was “their most soulful, funky creation to date.”
To make their twelfth album, the North Mississippi Allstars went back to the beginning—namely, their 2000 debut, Shake Hands with Shorty. Luther Dickinson says, “Still Shakin’ is a celebration of our life-changing first album, 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 by commemorating both of those anniversaries. Rather than focus on the old material, we decided to record new music in the spirit of our debut.” Still Shakin’ is a daringly inventive expansion of that album, showing how much the Dickinson Brothers have grown in the last 25 years. The point wasn’t to re-create the sound of Shake Hands with Shorty, but to recapture that spirit of invention and excitement. Back in the day, the Allstars came up with the phrase Modern Mississippi Music to describe their collision of styles and attitudes: an obsession with Mississippi Hill Country and Sacred Steel cross-bred with their stoner/punk/psychedelic jams. Still Shakin’ embodies that idea with every note and incorporates wild explorations, weird experiments, odd obsessions, and unexpected influences into their sound.
Today, the band shared the video for the album’s title track, which was shot partially at Willie Mitchell’s legendary Royal Studios, and also features footage supplied by North Mississippi Allstars fans as well. Of the song, Luther Dickinson said “”Still Shakin'” grew from a studio improv jam and I knew I wanted to write a song for the title track, expressing our gratitude to anyone that has supported us over these 25 years. Stringing hill country inside jokes together, the lyrics kept coming to me and I laid them down on the road using my kid’s karaoke mic.”
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The North Mississippi Allstars have never had a set-in-stone lineup. Instead, as their name suggests, they’ve always welcomed anyone who might push the music in new directions. Still Shakin’ includes a new generation of North Mississippi musicians: Robert Kimbrough, son of Junior Kimbrough, and Duwayne Burnside, son of R.L. Burnside. It also features Kashia Hunter on steel guitar, Grahame Lesh, son of Grateful Dead founding member Phil Lesh (whom Still Shakin’ is dedicated to), as well as the current Allstars touring lineup: Joey Williams (the Blind Boys of Alabama), and Ray Ray Hollowman (Eminem, Ne-Yo). This version of the Allstars has a loose and limber dynamic, infusing these new songs with rubbery grooves and boundless energy, as the guitars dance around each other and the rhythm section pushes everything along at an excitable clip.
Luther and Cody Dickinson started the North Mississippi Allstars in 1996 as a loose collective of musicians. They were inspired by their father, the legendary producer & musician Jim Dickinson, as well as their neighbors and elders, such as R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Otha Turner, and Fred McDowell. Their first national tour was backing Burnside in 1997, when he was touring A Ass Pocket of Whiskey and selling out shows throughout North America. Luther says, “That experience blew my mind, and Cody and I have been on the road ever since.” Three decades later, the North Mississippi Allstars will launch their initial tour dates in support of Still Shakin’ this Friday night in Mills River, NC. Many dates will be added as they will tour throughout 2026 in celebration of their 30th Anniversary as a band.
Still Shakin’ will be available across digital platforms, compact disc, and standard black vinyl. A limited red color LP edition autographed by the band, as well as a limited autographed CD edition will be available via Independent Retailers. A limited-to-600 yellow color LP autographed by the band will be available via Heady Wax Fiends. An autographed CD edition, as well as an exclusive & very limited silver “25th Anniversary Pressing” autographed by the band, are both available for pre-order NOW directly via NEW WEST RECORDS.
Still Shakin’ Track Listing:
1. Preachin’ Blues
2. Stay All Night (feat. Robert Kimbrough & Joey Williams)
3. My Mind is Ramblin’
4. Pray for Peace
5. K.C. Jones (Part II) (feat. Jojo Hermann & Grahame Lesh)
6. Still Shakin’
7. Poor Boy (feat. Duwayne Burnside)
8. Don’t Let the Devil Ride (feat. Joey Williams)
9. Write Me a Few Lines (CD & Digital Only Bonus Track)
10. John Henry
11. Monomyth (Folk Hero’s Last Ride)
North Mississippi Allstars On Tour:
April 4 – Mills River, NC – High Gravity Room at Sierra Nevada Brewery
April 5 – Douglas, GA – The Martin Centre
April 6 – Jacksonville Beach, FL – Springing the Blues Festival
April 10 – St. Petersburg, FL – Tampa Bay Blues Festival
April 11 – St. Petersburg, FL – Tampa Bay Blues Festival
April 24 – Fort Worth, TX – Tulips
April 25 – Houston, TX – Rockefellers
April 26 – Austin TX – Austin Blues Festival
April 27 – New Orleans, LA – Tipitina’s
May 1 – Miramar Beach , FL – Sun, Sand and Soul
June 3 – Deventer, Netherlands – Burgerweeshuis
June 4 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenburg
June 5 – Venlo, Netherlands – Grenswerk
June 6 – Oss, Netherlands – Groene Engel
June 7 – Peer, Belgium – Blues Peer
June 12 – Ardmore , PA – Ardmore Music Hall
June 13 – Brooklyn, NY – Brooklyn Bowl NY
June 14- Shirley , MA – The Bull Run Restaurant
June 15 – Fairfield, CT – Sacred Heart University Community Theatre
June 18 – Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom & Tavern
June 19 – Cincinnati , OH – Ludlow Garage
June 20 – Indianapolis, IN – HI-FI
June 21 – Evanston, IL – SPACE
June 27 – Waterford, MS – North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic
July 1 – San Sebastian, Spain – Dabadaba
July 2 – Barcelona, Spain – La Nau
July 3 – Valencia, Spain – 16 Toneladas
July 4 – Madrid, Spain – El Sol
July 5 – Cazorla, Spain – Festival Blues Cazorla
July 10 – Lewes, DE – Rocking The Dock Music Series
July 11 – Annapolis, MD – Rams Head on Stage
July 12 – Johnstown, PA – Peoples Natural Gas Park
July 23 – Novato, CA – Cookout Concert Series @ HopMonk Tavern Novato
July 24 – Crystal Bay, NV – Gambler’s Run Music Festival After Party
July 26 – Fall River, MA – Narrows Center for the Arts
July 27 – Portsmouth, NH – Jimmy’s Jazz & Blues Club
July 28 – Big Indian, NY – Roots Rock Revival
July 29 – Big Indian, NY – Roots Rock Revival
July 30 – Big Indian, NY – Roots Rock Revival
July 31 – Big Indian, NY – Roots Rock Revival
August 1 – Big Indian, NY – Roots Rock Revival
August 14 – Austin, TX – Antone’s Nightclub
August 15 – Austin, TX – Antone’s Nightclub
August 16 – Humble, TX – Charles Bender Performing Arts Center
October 11 – Memphis, TN – Country Blues Festival @ Overton Park Shell
October 25 – St. Louis, MO – The Sheldon Hall
