Amoeba Music

“When I was growing up there was no rock’n’roll, there was no teenage music,” Dion said, speaking from his Florida home, his unmistakable Bronx accent still intact in 2007. “I grew up listening to all these great musicians, guys I still idolize - Jimmy Rogers, Jimmy Reed and Hank Williams. When I was a pre-teen there were some high-powered blues stations I could pick up from the South. A Newark country station, WAAT, had a show called ‘Home Town Frolics’ with a guy named Don Larkin spinning country records. I’d run home from school to catch the last half hour of that. Those blues and country songs were always with me and in my guitar. I honed my skills on the guitar playing along to those records.”

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City Of Origin:

Bronx, New York City, New York, United States

Genre:

Oldies, Rock, Rock & Roll, Doo-Wop, Pop

Birthdate:

07/18/1939