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Beat the Odds

“I’VE BEEN OBSE SSED with fingerpicking in odd times and odd groupings of five and seven,” says North Mississippi Allstars leader Luther Dickinson. While you won’t hear much of the guitarist’s obsession on the new North Mississippi Allstars album [see page 54], it’s a big part of the film scoring Dickinson created for the documentary Onward Christian Soldier, about American terrorist Eric Robert Rudolph.

As it turns out, Dickinson is

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