Kevin Williamson
Jul 18, 2021 8:30 PM ET
The feckless Forrest Gump of American politics was there for the 1970s the first time around: Your grey-bearded correspondent had just been born, fresh-faced young Donald Trump was facing his first federal housing-discrimination case (represented in the proceedings by Roy Cohn, of course), Tony Orlando owned the radio airwaves and Joe Biden, that carbuncular encrustation, that lifer, that plodding careerist, that dull wooden fixture of the Capitol scene, was already getting settled into the Senate, where he would spend some decades accomplishing precisely squat, his only achievement having grown old enough and remained white enough that he could be used as demographic ballast by Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign.
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.”
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