The first Rock and Roll singer I remember listening to was Dion. I had the 45 of "The Wanderer" and I listened to it over and over. In fact, I listened to it so much that my mother told me if I played it once more she would break the record. Well, I put it right back on and mom came into the room, grabbed the 45 off the turntable and chased me around the house eventually breaking the record over my back..LOL. I was 5.
I have a pretty extensive collection of his recordings now and my favorite is some of his folk music from the late 60s and early 70s. Buried in some of my collection is Dion doing some really cool blues songs and I have always thought that he has one of the best "blue-eyed soul" voices ever put to tape.
After 40 plus years of making music, Dion just released his first all blues album and from the few cuts I listened to online, it sounds like it is worth getting. I'm going to run up to the store in a few and buy me a copy. I just thought I would post this in case anyone is interested in checking out one of the few living legends of Rock and Roll's new cd.
From Amazon:
"Bronx In Blue is an all-acoustic blues outing highlighting the music that first inspired Dion as a child growing up in the Bronx. With songs by Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Rogers, Hank Williams, Lightnin’ Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, the collection is a soulful tour de force for Dion, not only in his familiar role as a magnificently interpretive vocalist but, also, as a brilliantly innovative guitarist.
Dion notes, "When I was a kid, there was no Rock & Roll. In the early 50’s – late at night, I’d tune into Wheeling, West Virginia (WWVA), listening to the Blues – Howlin’ 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’ coming out of Newark. I was a Hank Williams junkie; for me, putting country and blues together – that’s what I call Rock & Roll."
Previewing the album in MOJO, Paul Déchamé writes, "Recalling the back-to-basics approach of Cash’s American recordings – muted drums, acoustic guitars – it’s a little like having Dion in your front room strumming his favourite blues songs." Don McCleese, in No Depression, sums up Bronx In Blue thusly: "It all sounds like Dion. It all sounds great."
Here is the link to listen to a few snippets of the tunes.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000CR5ECA/qid=1137257094/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-3876996-2086211?v=glance&s=music&n=507846
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