Steve Dixon – A Good Love Is Hard To Find

By , April 6, 2017 11:36 am

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Greetings all.

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We close out our week of ‘dead-enders’ with a great New Orleans 45 from the twilight of the mighty Instant label.

Instant released the cream of New Orleans R&B, soul and funk from 1963 until it trailed off in the late 70s.

Steve Dixon recorded two 45s for the label in 1974 and 1975 (and another for the Spotlite label in 1966) all with producer Jerry Powell.

Dixon’s real name was Dickinson, and (thanks to Sir Shambling for the info) he hailed from and (mostly) recorded in Alabama.

His Instant 45s were recorded in New Orleans, and their sound suggests the mid-60s, instead of the mid-70s.

‘A Good Love Is Hard To Find’ opens with a slow, churchy vibe, with Dixon singing backed by an organ, before a guitar establishes a shuffling rhythm and is joined by the horns (arranged by Tex Liuzza who worked on Skip Easterling’s Instant 45s). There’s a groovy organ solo (that quotes from ‘One Mint Julep’) and Dixon’s voice manages to break out into a vaguely Wilson Pickett-y rasp now and then.

It’s kind of a great, lost/overlooked 45 (the flip ‘Sunday Afternoon in Memphis’ is a nice ballad) and I hope you dig it.

I’ll see you all on Monday.

Keep the faith

Larry

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