Dion - Born to Be with You/Streetheart CD

Born to Be with You/Streetheart songs Musically, the album finds Dylan once again mining the stately traditionalist sound first heard on LOVE AND THEFT. Lazy blues numbers, piano-based songbook pop, and jumpin' country swing provide the backdrop for Dylan's continuing study of the vicissitudes of life, love, and death. Although he is certainly world-weary, a lot of life is lived in the verses of these songs and there is a dogged spirituality that provides, if not hope (a rather prosaic notion for Dylan by this point, to be sure), at least a means to finding contentment. Finally, a word about Dylan's voice here: while his singing has always been unconventional and never pretty in any traditional sense, in its raspy magnificence it is simply perfect for this timeless music. Bob Dylan's first new album in five years! His 44th album features 10 new songs and is the third release in an outstanding trilogy along with Time Out Of Mind and Love And Theft. This special edition includes a DVD featuring 4 additional songs and an expanded booklet. It's arguable that at no point since his 1960s heyday has Bob Dylan been as celebrated as in the decade following his critically acclaimed 1997 album TIME OUT OF MIND. Numerous films, books, and albums--mostly Columbia's impressive archive series of reissues--have been part of a universal canonization of the singer and met with considerable enthusiasm by fans and critics alike. 2006's MODERN TIMES, the third album to have been released in nearly 10 years and part of a trilogy that also includes 2001's brilliant and upbeat LOVE AND THEFT, is easily deserving of such enthusiasm and is further reason for the formal veneration. Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harmonica, piano); Denny Freeman, Stuart Kimball (guitar); Donnie Herron (steel guitar, mandolin, violin, viola); Tony Garnier (cello, acoustic bass); George G. ...

Born to Be with You/Streetheart CD music 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.

Born to Be with You/Streetheart album for sale Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Dion DiMucci's first new recordings since the highly successful Collectables' 2000 release Deja Nu. New Masters contains two new songs, five covers of classic Rock & Roll plus eleven Dion's classics revisited, 'Come Heal The Land,' a stunning response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11, demonstrates Dion's compassion in a contemporary light. Modern digital recording techniques give new life to the classics 'Runaround Sue,' 'The Wanderer' and moving acoustic rendition of 'Abraham, Martin & John'. 18 tracks. 2003. Recorded at the Upper Room Studio, Boca Raton, Florida. Personnel: Dion DiMucci (vocals); Bobby "Crow" Richardson (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Jamie "King" Colton (tenor saxophone, piano, organ); Rick Krive (piano, organ); Robert Guertin (synthesizer); Carlo Mastrangelo, Louis Colletti, Joe Neary, Walter Hochhauser, Jimmy Gallagher (background vocals). Audio Mixer: Robert Guertin. Liner Note Author: David Scott. Recording information: The Upper Room, Boca Raton, FL. Photographer: Bill Bush. Arranger: Dion DiMucci. Personnel includes: Dion DiMucci (vocals); Bobby "Crow" Richardsson (acoustic & electric guitars); Jamie "King" Colton (tenor saxophone, piano, organ); Rick Krive (piano, organ); Robert Guertin (keyborads, synthesizer, background vocals).

Born to Be with You/Streetheart buy CD music Both of these albums, from 1978 and 1979, respectively, were made with the Streetheart Band, Dion's then-touring outfit. FIRE went unreleased at the time for reasons unaddressed in the CD's liner notes (there aren't any). Stylistically, the two are pretty much of a piece, although RETURN has a bit of a '70s West Coast studio rock-lite sound (think Linda Ronstadt or the Eagles), while FIRE has mild funk touches and in general attempts to rock out a little more. RETURN has stronger material, by and large; there are excellent covers of Tom Waits' "Looking for the Heart of Saturday Night," and Bob Dylan's "Spanish Harlem Incident," both of which suit Dion's jazz-inflected vocals to a tee, while his own "I Used to Be a Brooklyn Dodger" is as fine an ode to a vanished era as you could wish. Between 1978 and theYo Frankie album, Dion Di Mucci abandoned secular music completely and cut nothing but gospel material for 10 years. His swansong in '78 was the album Return Of The Wanderer - this features his band the Streethearts. His last gospel album was cut in 1979 using much the same band and Cashman & West, the same production team but remained unreleased until this. 2 LPs on 1 CD. Recorded at Bayshore Recording Studios, Miami, Florida and The Hit Factory, New York in 1978. Personnel: Dion DiMucci (vocals); Rusty Steele (guitar, background vocals); Tony Battaglia (guitar); Mark Tiernan (keyboards, background vocals); Bruce Tergesen (percussion); Terry Cashman (background vocals). Recording information: Bayshore Recording Studios, Miami, FL; Hit Factory, New York, NY. Director: Zach Glickman. Photographers: Jim Houghton; David Gahr. Unknown Contributor Role: Jan Zlotkin. Personnel: Dion DiMucci (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars), Tommy West (acoustic guitar, background vocals), Rusty Steele (guitar, background vocals), Lee Foy (saxophone, flute, harmonica, background vocals), Mark Tiernan (keyboards, background vocals), Jon Cobert (synthesizer), Danny Weston (bass), Jim Kestle (bass, background vocals), Buzz London (drums, percussion), Jimmy Maelen, Bruce Tergessen (percussion), Marty Nelson, Vivian Cherry (background vocals). Compilation producer: Steve Hoffman.

Born to Be with You/Streetheart album for sale Dion's stint at Columbia Records between 1962 and 1966 has been justly hailed as a period in which he grew substantially as an artist, especially when he dug into more mature material and earthier, bluesier influences. It must also be pointed out, however, that he also recorded some tracks that were substantially less impressive and progressive, especially at the start of his stint with the company. Ruby Baby, his first Columbia album, was actually not all that different from the typical LP of a talented teen idol of the time in its unsatisfactory mix of approaches, apparently aimed at helping establish the singer's all-around entertainer credentials. The title track was his first, and one of his best and gutsiest, hit singles, yet oddly little else on the record was as forceful or even too similar. Instead there were unnecessary covers of a couple contemporary hits, "The End of the World" and "Go Away Little Girl," and vaguely jazzy/pop standard-ish numbers that indicated there were hopes to cross Dion over into Bobby Darin territory. "The Loneliest Man in the World" and "He'll Only Hurt You," a little weirdly, sound a bit like Roy Orbison imitations. "Ruby Baby" aside, only on the relatively tough "Gonna Make It Alone" and the softer, more doo wop-flavored "Will Love Ever Come My Way" did the kind of Dion heard on his early-'60s rock hits emerge. ~ Richie Unterberger (2 albums on 1 CD) The third in Ace's series of Dion's Warner Bros. output features the album "Sanctuary," released in 1971, and was his last collaboration with producer Phil Gernhard. Features David Bromberg on guitar & dobro. "Suite For Late Summer" ca Contains 3 bonus tracks. 2 LPs on 1 CD: SANCTUARY (1971)/SUITE FOR LATE SUMMER (1972). Personnel includes: Dion (vocals, guitar); David Bromberg (guitar, dobro); Sneaky Pete Kleinow (pedal steel guitar). Producers: Phil Gernhard, Russ Titleman. Personnel: Dion DiMucci (vocals, guitar); Gene Parsons (vocals, tenor guitar); David Bromberg (guitar, dobro); John Clausi (guitar); Sal DiTroia (acoustic guitar); Nick DeCaro (accordion, organ); Sheldon Powell (saxophone); Ron Frangipane (piano); Al Rogers, David Robinson (drums); George Devens, Russ Titelman, Gary Coleman (percussion). Audio Remixer: Lee Herschberg. Recording information: Bitter End, NY; Criteria Recording Studio, Miami, FL; Electric Lady Recording Studios, New York, NY; Sunset Sound Studios; Warner Bros Studios, Los Angeles, CA. Photographer: Joel Brodsky. Arranger: John Abbot .

Born to Be with You/Streetheart CD music Dion's early-'70s albums have been quite overlooked, even in comparison to his similar late-'60s folk-rock records, and even by many Dion fans. This single-disc CD pairs 1970's Sit Down Old Friend with 1971's You're Not Alone, both records showing Dion continuing to mature as a singer/songwriter and blender of folk, rock, and blues stylings. Sit Down Old Friend was a change of pace even by the standards of his mellower, folk-rockish late-'60s comeback records. This was Dion unplugged: just him on acoustic guitar (both classical and steel string), and no other accompaniment, with all but three of the songs written or co-written by the singer. There's an intimate warmth and vulnerability here that you associate with demos that tend not to be issued in this original form, instead being embellished and worked over into something slicker. For whatever reason, in this case Dion was able to slip the material through to the consumer in this unadorned format. It's a wistful and reflective set, as unplugged acoustic guitar albums tend to be. But the inherent mellowness of the format is given a harder and more emotional edge by Dion's blues leanings, and the sense of a man emerging from hard times into something better. His voice has rarely been more expressive than it is on "I Don't Believe My Race Is Run" and the cover of Jacques Brel's "If We Only Have Love." It's a quality overlooked effort of the early singer/songwriter era, though it's missing any classic or hitbound tunes that might have made it a major work. You're Not Alone was a low-key record in which Dion continued his explorations into introspective music that bridged the folk-rock and singer/songwriter styles. Whereas Sit Down Old Friend was solo acoustic, though, Dion did revert to full-band arrangements for the follow-up. Fortunately, the backing -- including notable session players Paul Griffin on organ and Hugh McCracken on both electric and acoustic guitar -- was tastefully understated, which would not often be the case the further Dion moved into the 1970s. It's respectable, yet not as good as Sit Down Old Friend and his best late-'60s folk-rock records, with a slight slide in the quality of the material, and less of the near-naked atmosphere that made Sit Down Old Friend stand out. Sometimes the slow and introspective tenor of the tunes gets sluggish, rather in the same way as Bobby Darin's folk-rock records of the 1960s, though Dion was always a better and edgier folk-rock singer than Darin was. Most of the set is self-composed, and it's fair but not exceptional singer/songwriting, with covers varying from effective (Melanie's "Close to It All") to unimaginative (the Beatles' "Let It Be"). There's just one outing into the rootsy blues that Dion had developed a flair for from the mid-'60s onward, "The Stuff I Got"; "Attraction Works Better Than Promotion" has to qualify as one of his most offbeat song titles. The CD also adds a 1973 track, "Doctor Rock'n'Roll," as a bonus cut. ~ Richie Unterberger 2 albums on 1 CD are Dion's first two albums for Warner Brothers, released in 1970 & 1971. The first album features Dion solo, accompanying himself on nylon & steel-string guitar, performing blues & folk-imbued songs stripped down to their bare essential 2 LPs on 1 CD: Sit Down Old Friend (1970)/You're Not Alone (1971). Personnel: Dion DiMucci (guitar, steel guitar, classical guitar); Hugh McCracken (electric guitar); Paul Griffin (organ); Al Rogers (drums); Victor Brady (steel drum); George Devens (percussion). Liner Note Author: Davin Seay. Recording information: Criteria Recording Studios, Miami, FL; Electric Lady Recording Studios, New York, NY. Arrangers: Dion DiMucci; John Abbott ; Phil Gernhard.