{"id":2770,"date":"2021-02-05T17:49:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/?p=2770"},"modified":"2021-02-05T17:49:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:49:34","slug":"dions-blues-comin-on-earns-blues-music-award-song-of-the-year-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectmusictoday.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/05\/dions-blues-comin-on-earns-blues-music-award-song-of-the-year-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"DION\u2019S \u201cBLUES COMIN\u2019 ON\u201d EARNS BLUES MUSIC AWARD SONG OF THE YEAR NOMINATION"},"content":{"rendered":"

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HOLLYWOOD (Perfect Music Today) 2\/4\/21\/–The nominations for the Blues Foundations\u2019 \u00a042nd Annual Blues Music Awards are in. \u00a0\u201cBlues Comin\u2019 On,\u201d written by Dion (Dimucci) and Mike Aquilina and as performed by Dion with Joe Bonamassa on Dion\u2019s\u00a0Blues With Friends\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>album. has been nominated as Song of the Year.<\/p>\n

We asked Dion to comment on the nomination and the song. \u00a0He replied, \u201cI\u2019m honored that ‘Blues Comin\u2019 On\u2019 and Mike and I have received this nomination from the Blues Foundation. \u00a0The song was a blast to record as I did that with Joe Bonamassa, the greatest young blues guitarist on the planet. \u00a0For \u2018Blues Comin\u2019 O,\u2019 his solid playing made me smile through the whole session. \u00a0In a way, he sounds like King Curtis and the horn section at the Apollo Theater as if Miles Davis and John Coltrane were in it. \u00a0I truly never experienced anything like this in my whole career. I\u2019m very thankful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blues With Friends<\/em>, released in June of last year and has been a fixture on Billboard\u2019s Blues Chart for 34 weeks, rising to the #1 position numerous times. When the album first started taking shape, he ran\u00a0\u201cBlues Comin\u2019 On,\u201d past Joe Bonamassa. \u201cIt\u2019s funny how a song evolves. For me it usually starts with a few words. In this case it was ‘If I didn\u2019t know better’ I wanted to sing those words, so we wrote a song around them. Joe Bonamassa is a monster and took the song to a whole new level.\u201d Joe would be the first of many of Dion\u2019s\u00a0Blues With Friends<\/em>\u00a0\u201cco-conspirators\u201d and the catalyst to getting the album released through his new Keeping The Blues Alive imprint.<\/p>\n

Link to view “Blues Comin\u2019 On” video by Dion featuring Joe Bonamassa:<\/p>\n

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Dion\u2019s\u00a0Blues With Friends\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>represents the fulfillment of a lifelong vision. Dion explained, \u201cI wanted an album of songs that were strong and memorable and told stories that were worth telling.\u201d His songwriting efforts were supported by a cadre of great players, each of whom jumped at the chance to collaborate with a music legend they think of in heroic terms.\u00a0He\u2019s quick to point out just how enduring this creative relationship has been, \u201cThe blues have been at the heart of my music since the early 1960s. \u2018The Wanderer\u2019 is a twelve-bar blues and I was covering Willie Dixon and Jimmy Reed in my early years at Columbia \u2014 much to the dismay of my corporate masters.\u201d \u00a0That\u2019s the way it\u2019s 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 Reed exalted, \u201cAnd then there was Dion \u2014 whose voice was unlike any other I had heard before \u2014\u00a0a voice that stood on its own, remarkable and unmistakably from New York. Bronx soul.\u201d<\/p>\n

The album has been subject of both a critical and commercial success. The Wall Street Journal noted, \u201cIt takes a rare artist to help define the early days of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll and to still have the creative vitality to release a star-studded new album in 2020, but Dion DiMucci has done just that.\u201d \u00a0American Songwriter specifically acknowledged his prowess as a writer, suggesting \u00a0\u201cHis songwriting is as inspired and electric as it\u2019s been since he was a kid\u2026 He sounds as inspired, if not more, as he has through the decades.\u201d\u00a0 Oklahoma\u2019s McAlester News-Capital also focused on his songwriting, \u201cWith so many timeless blues songs already in existence, could a brand new album of blues songs sustain an entire album? The answer in this case is a resounding \u2018Yes!\u2019\u201d\u00a0 Living Blues summed things up most succinctly, \u201cDion is working at the top of his game, and this album glows with pure joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

As one of the very few first-generation rock \u2018n\u2019 rollers still seriously pursing new avenues of expression, Dion\u2019s “Bronx soul” is very much in evidence on\u00a0Blues With Friends.<\/em>\u00a0The songs are blues originals, not \u201ccovers\u201d or \u201cstandard.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0To tell those stories, Dion recruited help from a few notable friends and admirers.\u00a0\u00a0He thought, \u201cI needed to round up the best guitarists and musicians alive and pick them from every generation, every variation of blues.\u201d And that\u2019s just what he did, surrounding himself with those who feel the blues spirit as he does.<\/p>\n

The album\u2019s guests include the cream of the contemporary scene\u2019s blues-rooted slingers besides the aforementioned Joe Bonamassa, including including Jeff Beck, Billy Gibbons, Brian Setzer, 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.<\/p>\n

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