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"He sings like someone whose demons are in the past but still not forgotten."
From the Heretics of Three-Chord Rock to the Demons of Dion by Jon Pareles, The New York Times |
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in Blue is available at Amazon.com, eMusic, and iTunes |
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A
note from Dion:
Some people think I grew up on Rock & Roll (not so). When
I was a kid, there was no Rock & Roll. In the early Fifty’s
– late at night, I’d tune into some southern radio
station that somehow reached the Bronx, listening to The Blues,
Howling Wolf’s How Many More Years, Jimmy Reed’s Bright
Lights, Big City.
After school, I’d run home to catch the last half hour
of the “Don Larkin Country Show” comin’ out of
Newark, New Jersey. I was a Hank Williams junkie. For me, putting
country and blues together, that’s what I call Rock &
Roll.
Black music, filtered through an Italian neighborhood, comes
out with an attitude. Rock & Roll. Yo! The music on this
CD was the undercurrent of every song I did: Runaround Sue,
The Wanderer, even the foot stomping on Ruby Baby I got from
John Lee Hooker’s Walkin’ Boogie.
Though I’ve been carrying these blues and country gems
around in my head for the last fifty years, I recorded this
CD in two days. No tricks. No musicians. No vocal overdubs.
Just me, my trusty 000C cutaway black Martin, my baby 0021,
and the Hurty Gurty man on some percussion. Yes, surrounded
by a great cloud of witnesses, in spirit of the ‘Early
Fathers of the Blues’ cheering us on, with their blessing,
we Rock.
Turn it up.
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Track
List:
1. Walkin' Blues (Robert Johnson)
2. You're the One (J.A. Lane a/k/a Jimmy Rogers)
3. I Let My Baby Do That (Hattie Hart - Dion DiMucci)
4. Who Do You Love (Elias McDaniel a/k/a Bo Diddley)
5. Built for Comfort (Willie Dixon)
6. Crossroads (Robert Johnson)
7. Travelin' Riverside Blues (Robert Johnson)
8. You Better Watch Yourself (Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins)
9. How Many More Years (Chester Burnett a/k/a Howlin' Wolf)
10. Terraplane Blues (Robert Johnson)
11. Honky Tonk Blues (Hank Williams)
12. Baby What You Want Me To Do (Jimmy Reed)
13. Statesboro Blues (Blind Willie McTell)
14. If You Wanna Rock & Roll (Dion DiMucci)
Click here to read the liner notes.
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Dimensional Music Recordings, LLC 2005 |
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