Dion assembled a dozen ‘Girl Friends’ for his new LP, “women who make me turn up the volume when they drop into my radio”
As Vintage Rock catches up with Dion DiMucci to discuss the making of his new album Girl Friends, it’s hard to believe that the distinguished gentleman who greets us is 84 years old. Not only does he cut a fine figure, looking trim and debonair with tinted glasses and white goatee, but he’s also in fine voice as he has deftly demonstrated on the 12 original duets featured on his latest record.
Showcasing a stellar roster of female collaborators such as Carlene Carter, Susan Tedeschi and the UK’s Joanne Shaw Taylor to name just a few, Girl Friends is Dion’s third studio album in recent years released via Joe Bonamassa’s label, Keeping The Blues Alive Records. “The thing about women is that when they walk in the room something changes,” opens Dion as he contemplates his new record.