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Power Line (Free subscription) | 25/10/2008
We last celebrated the birthday of the great Dion Dimucci in "People, let me put you wise" when Dion turned 69 this past July. Dion now returns with the new CD/DVD "Heroes: Giants of Early Guitar Rock." The CD/DVD package is a bargain and a total delight, a perfect follow-up to Dion's two most recent discs devoted to the blues. On the new disc Dion and guitarist Robert "Crow" Richardson take the approach...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
In 2000 NPR's Terry Gross conducted a terrific interview with Dion Dimucci, whose birthday we're celebrating today. It's an utterly engrossing interview, no pun intended, by turns funny and moving, equal parts talk and song. Listen to Dion sing "Jambalaya" and recall that when he started performing the song at age 13 he had no idea what gumbo was. Listen to Dion recall Father Joe, the neighborhood...
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Power Line (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
In a long career now spanning some firty years, Dion Dimucci (of Dion and the Belmonts, above with Bo Diddley) has experienced many ups and downs. Through it all, he has maintained a rare purity in his work. At every stage of his career you can hear the blues coming through. In 2003 Dion appeared as part of an oldies show at the Iowa State Fair, a show that I am reliably informed was pathetic until...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
A parish church named for St. Jerome has linked Mott Haven, an upstate D.J. and Dion DiMucci, the doo-wop legend from Belmont who goes by his first name.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 02/12/2007
RATING: (WILD APPLAUSE) The transformation is complete. Dion DiMucci, once doo-wop king of the New York streets, is a get-down, for-real bluesman. Or don't you think an ex-junkie from the Bronx knows about the blues? Throughout his career, he has dabbled in...
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The Way of the Fathers (Free subscription) | 16/11/2007
It's always great when the rock-music critics stay in lockstep with the Pope. His Holiness has spent the better hours of the last two weeks talking about St. Jerome. And as my friend Dion DiMucci, of the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, rakes in the reviews of his new album, Son Of Skip James, [...]
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The Vinyl Word (Free subscription) | 09/11/2007
Dion DiMucci has long been one of my favourite singers. His body of work stretches from the early doowop of the Belmonts, through his brilliant solo recordings for Laurie and Columbia, to his work with Phil Spector, his gospel recordings and on to his more recent albums such as Deja Nu, Bronx in Blue and now Son of Skip James. And whether it's rock and roll,, blues or gospel Dion is singing he has...
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The Allmusic Blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2007
Son of Skip James, on Verve Forecast, is Dion DiMucci’s first major label recording since the 1980s. It finds the early hitmaker of tunes like “Ruby Baby” and “The Wanderer” returning to the folk-blues roots that showed up on his later Columbia albums in the middle ’60s. Dion has been a lifelong fan of the [...]
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Business Wire (Free subscription) | 26/09/2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today's prices for the self-help book SONBLOCK range from
