The North Mississippi Allstars‘ Luther Dickinson and solo bandleader Jimbo Mathus occasionally team up, along with Alvin Youngblood Hart, in the South Memphis String Band. But this weekend they’ll be going their separate ways with a couple of big shows each.
Dickinson will join brother Cody in two performances with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra as part of their “Opus One” series, following in the path of such previous Opus One collaborators as Harlan T. Bobo, Lucero, and Al Kapone.
The first Allstars/MSO collaboration is tonight, at 7:30 p.m., at the New Daisy Theater. Tickets are $12.50. They’ll follow it up with an encore performance at 2 p.m on Saturday at “The Magnet” (879 E. McLemore), which is free as part of MSO’s “Symphony Soul Project” community outreach initiative.
As for the prolific Mathus, he’ll be playing back-to-back area concerts this weekend to celebrate the release of White Buffalo, the latest album with his backing band The Tri-State Coalition.