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Bronx In BlueDion
Release Date: 03/28/2006
Original Release:
2005
# of Discs:
1
J&R Item # 840661_CD
UPC # 793018296021
Label: Dimensional Music Recordings
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Performer: Dion
Distributor: Orchard (Distributor) Notes: The one-time doo-wop and rock-&-roll star Dion DiMucci has proved to be one of the most enduring of the genre's original pioneers, surviving numerous shifts in musical fashion over a career that has spanned six decades. This stripped-down Grammy-nominated production finds the singer going back to his pre-rock-&-roll roots, singing songs by Robert Johnson, Willie Dixon, and Hank Williams, among others, accompanied only by his own guitar and tasteful percussion.
Entertainment Weekly (p.84) - "With a voice that's retained much of the grainy warmth of his youth, DiMucci pumps new life into genre warhorses..." -- Grade: A-
Uncut (p.74) - "[T]he Cash/Rubin-style back-to-basics approach is perfect for a still robust talent."
Living Blues (pp.72-73) - "[H]e makes this project work by treating the material with feeling and never forgetting that the music is meant for dancing."
Not unlike his friend Bobby Darin, Dion Dimucci was a native New Yorker who started out as a rock & roller in the 1950s and went through a series of drastic stylistic changes. He began as a doo wop hitmaker with his group the Belmonts, turning out such smashes as "Runaround Sue" and "The Wanderer." Over the ensuing decades, the artistically restless Dion tried his hand at blues, folk-rock, Phil Spector-produced pop, and hard-edged rock & roll, managing to maintain his credibility and integrity all along the way, and eventually getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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Clovers (The) Dominoes (The) McPhatter, Clyde Moonglows (US) (The) Orioles (The) Platters (The) Reed, Jimmy (Blues) Turner, Big Joe Williams, Hank
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