Recent News
Januaray, 2010
New tour dates for 2010!
Click here to view!
Coastal Cohorts tour!
Don Dixon, Bland Simpson,Jim Wann
(see below)
catch up with Don's activities on his archived news page.
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Don Dixon
has devoted his entire life to the popular song. Whether working
as a singer, songwriter, musician or producer, he has always tried to
capture the essence of his life in the moment.
He began playing and recording in his mid-teens, co-founding ARROGANCE, a
band that helped forge the North Carolina scene which brought the world
Let's Active and The dBs, along with dozens of other bands that followed in
their wake. Dixon went solo in 1983 and has released nine cds. He is
currently at work on a new recording with his long-time touring band, Jamie
Hoover and Jim Brock. After twenty years, Jamie has named the group "Don
Dixon & the Jump Rabbits". The new platter is called "The Nu-Look" and is
due in May 2008.
Dixon's writing, production and session credits include astroPuppees, Baby
Shaker, Richard Barone, Jim Brock, Mark Bryan, Kim Carnes, Mary Chapin
Carpenter, Caitlin Cary, Joe Cocker, The Connells, Counting Crows, Marshall
Crenshaw, Pat DiNizio, The Edison Project, Fetchin Bones, GB Leighton, The
Golden Palominos, Guadalcanal Diary, Hootie and the Blowfish, In Tua Nua,
Marti Jones, Tommy Keene, Let's Active, James McMurtry, Moxy Fruvous, REM,
The Red Clay Ramblers, The Smithereens, Snagglepuss, Ronnie Spector, The
Spongetones, Chris Stamey, Matthew Sweet, The X-Teens and dozens more.
The DIXON Report
January 2010:
There's new tour dates for this year, so check the tour page here.
In regards to recording and releases, here's a recent email from Don on what's he's up to
i'll have a new instrumental album that will be released as a download called "Music from Robert CREEP & Other Instrumentals"...14 tracks...also i've created an album of R&B songs written by Jackie & Billy Jeffords...it's to be called "Don Dixon Sings the Songs of the Jeffords Brothers"...MARTI & I will have a new duet EP (no name yet) out in the the Spring in time for Record Store Day.
To the right's a photo he sent me from the Robert CREEP photo session. As his webmaster, I'm a little concerned...
Buy Don Dixon's latest albums:
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