His most recent album, 2020’s Taken Away, found him looking even deeper into the past, sampling the cries of blues singer John Lee Hooker and R&B reverend Al Green. Over the years, the music on his releases has evolved from scratchy sample-flips to live instrumentation, and his own vocal contributions have grown from spoken soliloquies-his drawled delivery a cross between 1970s/80s Detroit FM radio personality the Electrifying Mojo and the loquacious narrator of Parliament’s “Chocolate City”-to actual singing.īesides his own crooning, Dixon’s music is always full of the sound of Black voices-samples and snippets from boisterous nightclub audiences, thunderous church sermons, and phantom radio broadcasts.
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