Dion Blues With Friends [2 LP] - oldies-media on eBay Dion Blues With Friends [2 LP]

Dion records with Paul Simon, Van Morrison, Bruce Springsteen and 14 other super stars on new studio album. The 14 original songs also include musical contributions from Jeff Beck, Rory Block, Joe Bonamassa, Samantha Fish, Billy Gibbons, John Hammond Jr., Sonny Landreth, Joe Menza, Patti Scialfa, Brian Setzer, Stevie Van Zandt, Jerry and Jimmy Vivino and Joe Louis Walker. Dion’s Blues With Friends represents the fulfillment of a lifelong vision. Dion explains the album’s impetus, “Ius, “I wanted an album of songs that were strong and memorable and told stories that were worth telling.� His songwriting efforts were supported by a cadre of great players, which all jumped at the chance to collaborate with a music legend they each tthink of in heroic terms. He’s quick to point out just how enduring this creative relationship has been, “The blues have been at the heart of my music since the early 1960s. ‘The Wanderer’ is a twelve-bar blues and I was covering Willie Dixon and my Reed in my early years at Columbia — much to the dismay of my corporate masters.� That’s the way it’s long been for the man Lou Reed inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame more than thirty years ago. That night the normally taciturn Reedalted, “And then there was Dion — whose voice was unlike any other I had heard before — a voice that stood on its own, remarkable and unmistakably from New York. Bronx soul.� As one of the very few first-generation rock ‘n’ rollers still seriopursing new avenues of expression, Dion’s Bronx soul is very much in evidence on this new album, a full-tilt blues offering. The blues songs therein are not “covers� nor Dion’s versions of blues standards. These compositions are in fact original bs masterpieces which are destined to become classics. He came up with the music and words for twelve of them and finished those with co-writer Mike Aquilina. The two exceptions are “Hymn To Him� which Dion wrote with Bill Tuohy and “Kickin’ Childwritten with Buddy Lucas. To tell those stories, Dion recruited help from a few notable friends and admirers. He thought, “I needed to round up the best guitarists and musicians alive and pick them from every generation, every variation of blues.� AnAnd that’s just what he did, surrounding himself with those who feel the blues spirit as he does. The album’s guests include the cream of the contemporary scene’s blues-rooted slingers including Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Joe Bonamassa, Brian Setzer,r, Sonny Landreth, Samantha Fish, John Hammond Jr., Joe Louis Walker, Rory Block , Jimmy and Jerry Vivino, vintage guitar guru Joe Menza as well as icons Stevie Van Zandt, Patti Scialfa, Bruce Springsteen, Van Morrison and Paul Simon. Yes, that’s a whowhole lot of star power but each participated not because of his or her marquee appeal but because of what each could add musically. The result is one reflective of nuanced devotion to the blues rather than a gratuitous display of individual virtuosity. Ity. It’s very much Dion’s album and those bold face names participating are most convincingly there for him. For this outing, Dion worked with producer Wayne Hood in whose Florida studio the basic tracks were recorded. “From the first day, I was at home. We hit it off like brothers on a mission. We caught the same vision and sound and off we went.� Over the course of the last part of 2019 and the first part of 2020, the album began to take shape. Dion had the songs and the collaborators began

Condition:New Category:Music Release Date:2020-07-17 Label:KTBA Records Creator: # of Discs:2 SKU:KTBA 61081 UPC:804879610816 About Us

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