Electric Blue Watermelon
Electric Blue Watermelon | ||||
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Released | September 6, 2005 | |||
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Length | 49:17 | |||
Label | ATO Records | |||
Producer | Jim Dickinson | |||
North Mississippi Allstars chronology | ||||
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Electric Blue Watermelon is the fourth studio album by American band
The album made it to number 180 on the
Critical reception
Aggregate scores | |
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Source | Rating |
Metacritic | 79/100[1] |
Review scores | |
Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Entertainment Weekly | B+[3] |
PopMatters | 8/10[4] |
Robert Christgau | [5] |
Electric Blue Watermelon was met with generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 79, based on eleven reviews.[1]
Tom Sinclair of Entertainment Weekly found the album "it's sort of like The Allman Brothers Band jamming with the P-Funk All Stars, with LL Cool J guesting".[3] AllMusic's Steve Leggett praised the album, saying: "what they really are is a 21st century version of a good old Southern rock band who know all too well that the hills of North Mississippi are alive with real folk music".[2] Adrien Begrand of PopMatters said that the album "expertly combines elements of the previous three albums with a few cool new additions, making for not only the most diverse concoction of blues and rock the band has recorded to date, but also their best album so far".[4] Veteran critic Robert Christgau said: "They've learned to lilt, or else agreed to let their daddy show them how" and selected two songs: "Hurry Up Sunrise" and "Bang Bang Lulu".[5]
Track listing
No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
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1. | "Mississippi Boll Weevil" | Charley Patton | 2:48 |
2. | "No Mo" | North Mississippi Allstars | 4:56 |
3. | "Teasin' Brown" |
| 3:38 |
4. | "Moonshine" | NMA | 4:18 |
5. | "Hurry Up Sunrise" | Othar Turner · Luther Dickinson | 4:58 |
6. | "Stompin' My Foot" |
| 3:37 |
7. | "Bang Bang Lulu" |
| 4:03 |
8. | "Deep Blue Sea" | Odetta Gordon | 3:52 |
9. | "Mean Ol' Wind Died Down" | NMA | 7:22 |
10. | "Horseshoe" | NMA | 5:02 |
11. | "Bounce Ball" | Othar Turner | 4:43 |
Total length: | 49:17 |
Personnel
- Luther Dickinson – guitar, vocals
- Cody Dickinson – drums
- Chris Crew – bass, vocals
- Jim "East Memphis Slim" Dickinson – producer, guest artist
- Pete Matthews – recording
- Stewart Whitmore – editing
- Stephen Marcussen – mastering
- Tom Foster – artwork
- Emily Philpott – design, layout
- Chris Tetzeli – management
- Coran Capshaw – management
- Lucinda Williams – guest artist
- Robert Randolph – guest artist
- Al Kapone – guest artist
- Othar Turner – guest artist
- Jimbo Mathus – guest artist
- Ben Nichols– guest artist
- Jimmy Davis – guest artist
- Jim Crosthwait – guest artist
- Jim Spake – guest artist
- Steve Selvidge– guest artist
- Susan Marshall – guest artist
- Mary Lindsay Dickinson – guest artist
- John C. Stubblefield – guest artist
- R.L. Boyce– guest artist
- Sharde Turner – guest artist
- Aubrey Turner – guest artist
- Rodney Evans – guest artist
- Otha Andre Evans – guest artist
- Whitney Jefferson – guest artist
- Robert "Tex" Wrightsil – guest artist
- Harold "Sundance" Thomas – guest artist
- Roger Lewis – guest artist
- Kevin Harris – guest artist
- Efrem Towns – guest artist
- Terence Higgins – guest artist
- Julius McKee – guest artist
- Revert Andrews – guest artist
- Jamie McLean – guest artist
Charts
Chart (2005) | Peak position |
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US Billboard 200[6] | 180 |
US | 1 |
US | 8 |
References
- ^ a b "Critic Reviews for Electric Blue Watermelon". Metacritic. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Leggett, Steve. "Electric Blue Watermelon - North Mississippi Allstars | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Sinclair, Tom (March 17, 2020). "Electric Blue Watermelon". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Begrand, Adrien (August 31, 2005). "North Mississippi Allstars: Electric Blue Watermelon, PopMatters". PopMatters. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ a b Christgau, Robert. "Robert Christgau: CG: North Mississippi Allstars". www.robertchristgau.com. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ "North Mississippi Allstars Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ "North Mississippi Allstars Chart History (Top Blues Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
- ^ "North Mississippi Allstars Chart History (Heatseekers Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved April 21, 2021.
External links
- Electric Blue Watermelon at Discogs (list of releases)