Dion – the heart and soul of New York City in human voice, presents Stomping Ground as an immersive Rhythm’n’Blues experience with a harder edge than last year’s great Blues With Friends. He brings along with the usual suspects – big names and cult faves – as accompanying artists.
Astonishing to hear this legendary voice and see him in the flesh. In video interviews at least. He is eighty-two but sounds and looks ageless. The light shines as bright, the mind is sharp and you experience all this when he sings.
If you thought this was the coolest guy on Earth when you first became captured by Runaround Sue at age six, then this is a lifetime addiction I confess to here. If life could be so effortless and transcendent.
Legend has it that he sustained himself listening to Robert Johnson King of the Delta Blues Singers in the darkest depths of a heroin addiction. …