It would take up most of this page to list all of the late James Luther Dickinson’s credits, so here are just a few. Under his full name, or more often as just Jim—as producer, pianist and singer—he led the Dixie Flyers, who became a Southern house band for Atlantic Records in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. He played piano on the Stones’ “Wild Horses” and keys for Dylan. He produced Big Star and The Replacements and collaborated with Ry Cooder on a slew of the latter’s recordings. At the recommendation of Duane Allman, he also recorded Dixie Fried. It was his first solo album, cut for Atlantic in 1972, now expanded by seven songs. It’s one that you either know already by heart or will discover for the first time and wonder where it’s been all of your life. While he’s not the most engaging vocalist in the world, Dickinson sure as hell put everything he had into every track, whether that’s a traditional rave-up like “Wine” or Merle Haggard’s “Mama Tried” or Tim Hardin’s “The Lady Came from Baltimore”—those last two slowed way down to weeper pace—or the gospel standard “If I Had My Way.” Dylan’s “John Brown” is prescient, Dickinson’s presentation is a ringer for the way Dylan himself might handle the song today, while bluesman Furry Lewis’ “Casey Jones (On the Road Again)” is taken loose and easy. Dickinson had plenty of help here, with the cast of contributors numbering a couple of dozen (most notably one Dr. John), but it’s Dickinson’s  personality that shines through, from one diverse track to the next. It would be 30 years before he’d cut another solo record, but this was the keeper.