Even if you’ve never heard of Memphis musician and record producer Jim Dickinson, then you’ve certainly heard him play or felt his musical influence. His session work with The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, Ry Cooder and everyone in between, as well as his solo projects—among them his 1972 boogie-riot debut Dixie Fried and latter-day recordings with his sons Luther and Cody (better known as the North Mississippi Allstars)—define a career arc that rivals Captain Beefheart or Scott Walker for sheer eccentricity alone.

The first edition of I’m Just Dead, I’m Not Gone came out a few years after Dickinson’s death in 2009. The title offers a glimpse of his self-effacing sense of humor, but it’s in the live performance—captured in 2006 at the New Daisy Theater in Memphis—where his big-hearted personality truly shines. With Luther and Cody behind him on guitar and drums, as well as his “spiritual son” and NMA bassist Chris Chew and Jimmy Davis on rhythm guitar and backing vocals, Dickinson coaxes soulful, Southern-smoked blues lines from his piano and sings with a no-nonsense troubadour’s enthusiasm, straight from the gut.With the exception of “Redneck, Blue Collar,” the Lazarus Edition consists of unreleased cuts from the Daisy Theater show, as well as two numbers recorded at 1983’s Beale Street Music Festival with members of the famed Sun Records rhythm section (including drummer J.M. Van Eaton). From his stirring cover of Chuck Prophet’s “Somewhere Down the Road” to his whisky-drawled rendering of Sun bassist Stan Kessler’s “I Forgot to Remember to Forget,” Dickinson comes across as larger than life—which is exactly how he would have wanted it.