Dion DiMucci not just an early-'60s crooner but a rock n' roll pioneer worthy of an April 2021 Broadway musical was the snarl in his voice.
He rolled it out just often enough, in hits like "The Wanderer" and "Runaround Sue," to balance his sweetness with menace."When you have a voice as deep and wide as Dion's, that voice can take you all the way around the world and then all the way back home to the blues," Bob Dylan writes in liner notes to Dion's new album, Blues with Friends, which recently debuted atop the Blues Albums chart.
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