The blues-based band hasn’t really had a break to speak of since well before the release of last year’s debut CD, Shaking Hands With Shorty. It doesn’t look like they’ll be taking much of one in the near future, either.

The latest national trek kicks off April 20 at Carbondale, Ill., and so far comprises 26 dates lined up into September – with more likely to be added as they go.

The band will hit the club circuit and its fair share of festivals this summer, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival on May 5 and the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta the following day.

The schedule apparently doesn’t bother the North Mississippi Allstars – brothers Luther and Cody Dickinson, and bassist Chris Chew – in fact, they seem to thrive on it.

“I think there’s a spirit that lives in the music that can only get, you can only conjure up when you’re rolling every day,” Luther Dickinson told Pollstar last fall.

“It’s a new city, another gig every night, and you do that long enough, you get this energy, this perpetual motion-type energy that I think people respond to more than actually the music itself, in a lot of cases.

“But that’s my life force, man. I love that feeling more than anything.”