Dickinson grew up playing concerts and gaining recording experience with his father and brother, Cody.

Dickinson made his recording debut in 1987, playing a metal-influenced guitar solo on "Shooting Dirty Pool" on The Replacements' album Pleased to Meet Me, which his father was producing.

In 2014, Gibson issued a signature model for him, the Luther Dickinson ES-335, with the most notable modification being the P-90 pickups replacing the standard humbuckers.

[6] Jazz critic Ted Gioia chose Blues & Ballads: A Folksinger's Songbook, Volumes 1 & 2 (New West, 2016) for the eleventh spot on his list of the top 100 albums of the year.

[8] With DDT With Gutbucket With North Mississippi Allstars With The Word With Jim Dickinson With The Black Crowes With John Hiatt With South Memphis String Band With The Hill Country Revue With The Wandering With Bash & Pop With Sisters of the Strawberry Moon With Calvin Russell With Jimbo Mathus With Jon Spencer Blues Explosion With Othar Turner With John Hermann With Lucero With Bob Frank With Jim Lauderdale With others