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Hernando (album)

2008 studio album by North Mississippi Allstars

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ5742193 ↗
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Hernando is the fifth studio album by American band North Mississippi Allstars. It was released on January 22, 2008, through Songs of the South Records. The recording sessions took place at Zebra Ranch Studio in Coldwater, Mississippi. The album was produced by Jim Dickinson. It features contributions from Jimbo Mathus, Jimmy Davis, East Memphis Slim, Kurt "KC" Clayton, and Amy LaVere. The band briefly toured the album across America in 2008.

The album peaked at number 142 on the US Billboard 200, number one on the Top Blues Albums chart, number 19 on the Independent Albums, number three on the Heatseekers Albums and number 12 on the Tastemakers.

Track listing

Personnel

Cody Dickinson – drums, electric washboard (track 4), guitar (track 6), vocals

Luther Dickinson – guitar, vocals

Chris Crew – bass, vocals

James "Jimbo Mathus" Mathis Jr.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hernando (album)” as 2008 studio album by North Mississippi Allstars. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-01-22. The account is most persuasive where Hernando, album and studio can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2008 studio album by North Mississippi Allstars. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5742193. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hernando (album)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.