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BY EMILY JONES
Starkville Daily News
DayBreakDown, North Mississippi Allstars,
Squint hit nightclub scene
Several rising stars in the contemporary
music industry will be playing the Starkville nightclub scene
in the next week.
The North Mississippi Allstars will be at Rick's tomorrow. The
blues group is currently on tour in anticipation of the release
of "Polaris", their third album. "The first records
were building blocks," guitarist/singer Luther Dickinson
reveals. "We've been thinking and talking about Polaris since
1999. We were on a three-record plan and we always knew that number
three would be our most ambitious album."
"Polaris" is a significant step in the evolution of
the Allstars since it is the first NMA album with new full-time
member Duwayne Burnside (son of legendary blues musician R. L.
Burnside). He wrote several songs for "Polaris" and
encouraged a more collaborative writing process than in the past.
Cody Dickinson, the biggest pop fan amongst the Allstars, contributed
to "Polaris" as both songwriter and string arranger
on songs including "Otay", "One to Grow On",
and the title track.
The high energy rock band "Squint" is scheduled
to perform at Rick's on August 27. The group also has a new album
which earned them a nomination for a 2003 American Music Award
even before it was released. At college radio stations, it was
the #12 most added record according to CMJ's Top 20 Adds and entered
the CMJ Top 200 six weeks ago, where it remains. Squint is featured
on Touchtunes Jukeboxes, DMX Radio, and XM Satellite Radio. Songs
off squint's new record will be featured on MTV's Road Rules and
The Real World next week while they are in Starkville.
Also, Rolling Stone and Jim Beam have entered the picture. They
have all signed on as supporters of Squint. Jim Beam recently
awarded Squint a large grant to help with the financing of the
record; and Rollingstone.com just named squint "Band of The
Week." Their hard work and solid song writing, earned squint
the ASCAP Plus Award in 2003.
DayBreakDown (the band formerly known as Boko Maru) is on the
road this fall for the first time. It will bring its show to Starkville
on August 28 for a performance at the State Theater.
DayBreakDown is a five-piece, "in your face Southern rock
band" based in Oxford. This summer the band changed its name
form the Boko Maru Madness because of copyright issues and the
loss of bass player Tommy Turan. Newcomer John Phillips, a former
Ole Miss student from Memphis, TN, claimed Turan's vacant position
and hasn't missed a beat.
They are gearing up for shows like a two-night stand in Memphis
the weekend Ole Miss plays there, a two-night stand in New Orleans
when Mississippi State plays Tulane in the Superdome, as well
as gigs in Nashville, Tenn. and St. Simon's Island, Ga.
These five blue-collar rockers believe they are about to be thrust
into the Southeastern music spotlight- whether they are ready
or not.
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