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JIM DICKINSON HAS DIED: ?During the course of his colorful half-century career, Dickinson built a w?

By Glenn Reynolds

JIM DICKINSON HAS DIED: “During the course of his colorful half-century career, Dickinson built a worldwide reputation as a session player for the likes of Dylan and The Rolling Stones, a producer for influential groups including Big Star and The Replacements, a sometime solo artist and the patriarch of a small musical dynasty through his sons, Cody and Luther Dickinson of the North Mississippi Allstars. . . . As a student at Whitehaven High School, Dickinson formed his first band, The Regents; he later had the distinction of singing on The Jesters? 1966 garage-rock nugget ‘Cadillac Man,’ the final release on Sun Records.”

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