Eddie Dixon

 As a multi-instrumental sideman eddie has worked with Mississippi blues O.G. Mr. Tommie T-Bone Pruitt , Bloodshot recording artist The Blacks,rediscovered soul luminary Ralph “Soul” Jackson, comedian Doug Stanhope (?...yep) Chicago rap artist Serengeti, Chicago croonsplosion and general outside art badassMarvin Tate, briefly backed the lovely Chicago songstress and vocal powerhouse Jen Hall, provided a few minutes of keys and banjo with Deals Gone Bad and played active parts as a producer and player with soul voiced songwriter Adam Fitz and the noir folk song-fountain Algebro. With Adam Fitz he had the opportunity to open at the world’s largest block party (ST Pat's Chicago) with Spoon, White Rabbits, and Chris Mills, and at the Park West w Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings. There are more to list but they probably are not as awesome .Beneath all that gun for hire stuff is someone who has been recording and following his idiosyncratic muse for decades. Ranging from rough and tumble noise rock to a morerecent spooky southern-stained acoustic music, he has battled to somehow crowbar intense sonic experimentation into knottily poetic songs that could maybe be treated morepolitely if one was the sort . His latest Stow and Brace is an ode to delicious decay of fall and winter and the stormier side of the warmer times. Acoustic instruments (guit banjoharmonica piano sax) are distressed and caressed alternately and share the room with spooky treated ambiences and mossy bits of electronic bunting. Notable free jazz cello guy Fred Lonberg-Holm lends some truly flavorful squeals and plinks on Texaco and October . These songs are performed live with a little bit of looped rhythm including several homemade electro-acoustic instruments that scrape, boing , and thump ....occasional radio static/random fuzziness and a guitar,banjo, or electric piano, depending. The combination comes very close to a midway point bewteen avant garde noisemaking and that pure acoustic guitar troubadour stuff.Hopefully pulling good from both and shedding their less approachable faces.At least that’s the plan .

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