Kickin' Child, which was originally recorded for Columbia Records but left unreleased until now.
In 2016, Dion released his critically acclaimed album,
New York Is My Home. The collection, which was produced by
Conan bandleader
Jimmy Vivino, features a duet with Paul Simon on the album's title track. Plans are currently in the works for a jukebox musical based on his life.
Dion told us that the deeper he got into discovering music as a kid, the more similarities he found there to be among various genres:
“Country music, it's American music. Blues people must've heard country, country heard blues and putting those two together, that's what we called rock n' roll in the '50s. It just seems that country music was in a major key and blues was in a minor key. Pretty much the same three chords, but only major and minor.”