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Included in this book are photographs, poetry, and narrative anecdotes looking back on the author's 40-year (and still counting) career as a journalist, photo-journalist, and author while working for three Pulitzer Prize winning newspapers in the South. Dickerson is known for seeking interaction with his photographic subjects. Featured in this book are portraits of ordinary people who have distinguished themselves in various ways, such as Lt. Col. Sarah Deal, the first female pilot for the U.S. Marines Corps (she was attending air traffic school at the U.S. naval base in Millington, north of Memphis, when the defense secretary announced that pilot training would be offered to women in the U.S. Marine Corps.) . . . an old warrior who got to fly a B-17 bomber again after more than three decades . . . the midwife birth of a Mississippi Delta baby . . . the Ghost of Annandale, a spine tingling story associated with the Chapel of the Cross, one of the most historic churches in Mississippi . . . and a look Back at Trader Jon's, Pensacola, Florida's most famous strip joint/safe haven for Navy fighter pilots and Broadway playwrights and British princes--along with entertainment celebrities such as Waylon Jennings, Ringo Starr, Stevie Ray Vaughan, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, the Bangles, Marshall Chapman, B.B. King, Suzy Bogguss, Rosanne Cash, Marty Stuart, rock 'n' roll legend Carl Perkins, Jimi Jamison of the rock group Survivor, Rolling Stone Ron Wood, hit songwriter and recording artist Deborah Allen, Faith Hill, Leon Redbone, teen star Tiffany, Lynn Anderson, R&B legend Bobby Womack, Shelby Lynne, Holly Dunn, Paulette Carlson legendary record producer Chips Moman, Elvis Presley's first guitarist and co-inventor of rock 'n' roll, legendary guitarist Scotty Moore, a poem about a female Mississippi surgeon who operates in the nude (no nudity involved iln the book) . . . Mississippi author Willie Morris (North Toward Home and My Dog Skip) and others. Roughly 1/3 of the images in the book relate to Mississippi, 1/3 relate to Memphis, and 1/3 relate to Nashville.

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"""The book collects some of the many photographs taken by James L. Dickerson over the course of his career as a journalist--and a lover of the arts, music in particular. The photos are often accompanied by excerpts from interviews with the subjects, poetry, or touching or humorous anecdotes. On the page opposite a photo of late Texas guitarist and singer Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dickerson remembers allowing the legendary bluesman to break a strict no-smoking policy the journalist had and light up in his car. Dickerson recalls, upon hearing the news of Vaughan's untimely death in a helicopter crash, rushing out to his car to look at the half-smoked cigarette, alone in an otherwise-pristine ashtray ... For the most part, Mississippi on My Mind can be broken down into three sections--Memphis, Mississippi, and Nashville. It's a true trinity of Southern arts and music, and Dickerson knows his subject matter well. All in all, the book is a fun read, and it seems ample evidence of the truism that, in photography and journalism, there is no substitute for being there at the right time. For those who weren't, though, Dickerson's book makes a worthy passport.""--Jesse Davis, Memphis Flyer."

The book collects some of the many photographs taken by James L. Dickerson over the course of his career as a journalist--and a lover of the arts, music in particular. The photos are often accompanied by excerpts from interviews with the subjects, poetry, or touching or humorous anecdotes. On the page opposite a photo of late Texas guitarist and singer Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dickerson remembers allowing the legendary bluesman to break a strict no-smoking policy the journalist had and light up in his car. Dickerson recalls, upon hearing the news of Vaughan's untimely death in a helicopter crash, rushing out to his car to look at the half-smoked cigarette, alone in an otherwise-pristine ashtray ... For the most part, Mississippi on My Mind can be broken down into three sections--Memphis, Mississippi, and Nashville. It's a true trinity of Southern arts and music, and Dickerson knows his subject matter well. All in all, the book is a fun read, and it seems ample evidence of the truism that, in photography and journalism, there is no substitute for being there at the right time. For those who weren't, though, Dickerson's book makes a worthy passport. --Jesse Davis, Memphis Flyer.

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Journalist, photographer and publisher JAMES L. DICKERSON has published numerous biographies and histories, including Devil's Sanctuary: An Eyewitness History of Mississippi Hate Crimes, The Hero Among Us: Memoirs of an FBI Witness Hunter, Mojo Triangle: Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock 'n' Roll Named best new book out of the South by the Independent Publishers Association), and Colonel Tom Parker, the movie rights of which were recently sold to a major Hollywood motion picture company for a movie about Elvis Presley. An award-winning journalist, he has worked as a staff writer for three Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers: The Commercial Appeal (Memphis), the Clarion-Ledger/Jackson Daily News (Jackson, MS) and the Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, MS). He is a former book critic for the Toronto Star, the Baltimore Sun, the Nashville Tennessean, BookPage, and the Jackson Free Press. As a photographer, Dickerson's work has sold to greeting card companies, national magazines, and exhibited at the prestigious New York photography gallery, the Neikurg Gallery (no longer open since the death of its owner).

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