Blues with friends / Dion.
Material type: MusicPublisher number: KTBA61080 | KTBA RecordsPublisher: Deerfield Beach, FL : KTBA Records, [2020]Copyright date: ℗2020Description: 1 audio disc (1 hr., 48 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type:- performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Produced by Wayne Hood & Dion.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD | Dr. James Carlson Library | CD | BLUES Dion | Available | 33111009910205 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Blues With Friends is a straightforward title for an album that isn't quite as straightforward as it seems. Unlike most blues duet records from rock & roll lifers, this isn't a collection of covers. Dion wrote 14 new songs, usually using blues as a foundation, then invited a bunch of famous pals into the studio to add some vocals or maybe guitar. The guest list is varied, ranging from blues lifers Joe Louis Walker and Sonny Landreth to relative new guns such as Joe Bonamassa, while also finding plenty of space for rockers like Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Brian Setzer, Van Morrison, and Stevie Van Zant. Not all these players are strictly blues and the album isn't quite, either, taking the time to dig deeply (and quietly) on the Simon duet "Song for Sam Cooke (Here in America)" and the comforting closer "Hymn to Him," which features Springsteen and Patti Scialfa. Blues With Friends may be most interesting whenever Dion wanders from the straight and narrow, but the straight-up blues are often compelling, too, particularly when Dion gets down and dirty with Billy Gibbons on "Bam Bang Boom" and when he spars with Walker and Morrison on "I Got Nothin'." The different shades of blue are nuanced but notable and help make Blues With Friends another strong latter-day collection from Dion. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Title from disc label.
Dion, vocals & guitar ; Wayne Hood, guitars, bass, Wurlitzer electric piano, Hammond organ & drums ; with various featured performers.
Produced by Wayne Hood & Dion.
Songs written by Dion and Mike Aquilina, except "Kickin' child" by Dion and Buddy Lucas; "Hymn to Him" by Dion and Bill Tuohy.
Compact disc.
Performance notes with full credits printed on container insert.
Blues comin' on (with Joe Bonamassa) -- Kickin' child (with Joe Menza) -- Uptown number 7 (with Brian Setzer) -- Can't start over again (with Jeff Beck) -- My baby loves to boogie (with John Hammond) -- I got nothin' ( with Van Morrison & Joe Louis Walker) -- Stumbling blues (with Jimmy & Jerry Vivino) -- Bam bang boom (with Billy Gibbons) -- I got the cure (with Sonny Landreth) -- Song for Sam Cooke (here in America) (with Paul Simon) -- What if I told you (with Samanatha Fish) -- Told you once in August (with John Hammond & Rory Block) -- Way down (I won't cry no more) (with Stevie Van Zandt) -- Hymn to Him (with Bruce Springsteen & Patti Scialfa).