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EEE (album)

EEE is an album by the American musician Don Dixon, released in 1989.[2][3]

EEE
Studio album by
Don Dixon
Released1989
StudioReflection Sound
GenreRock
LabelEnigma[1]
ProducerDon Dixon
Don Dixon chronology
Chi-Town Budget Show
(1989) 		EEE
(1989) 		Romantic Depressive
(1995)

The album's first single was "Bad Reputation".[4]

Production

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Recorded at Reflection Sound Studios, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the album was produced by Dixon.[5][6] The Uptown Horns contributed to EEE, part of Dixon's efforts to incorporate elements of soul music in to the album's sound.[7][8] Sonny Landreth played guitar on EEE; the John P. Kee New Life Community Choir sang on "I Can Hear the River".[9][10]

Dixon's wife, Marti Jones, duetted with him on a cover of "Gimme Little Sign"; Dixon also covered "Dark End of the Street".[11][12] "Calling Out for Love (At Crying Time)" was written by Dixon and Marshall Crenshaw.[13] "EEE/T.O.T.T.V." is a sound collage that incorporates bits of indiscriminately taped television audio.

Critical reception

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Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic     [14]
Chicago Sun-Times    [13]
Chicago Tribune    [12]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music     [8]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide     [6]
Ottawa Citizen     [15]

Trouser Press wrote that Dixon's songs "mine quirky rock-soul territory more persuasively than ever."[7] The Washington Post thought that "his husky voice and self-assured soul delivery suggest that Dixon really doesn't have any doubts about the material or his ability to put it across."[11] The Windsor Star called the album "a bracing release," writing that "the playing and arranging is superb."[16]

The Los Angeles Times stated that, "as always, Dixon has the skill to construct immaculate bridges, hooks, rhyme schemes, et al., and the passion to make all that care seem effortlessly irrelevant."[17] The Chicago Tribune determined that "Dixon continues to pen some of the most pessimistic, and powerfully alluring, love songs around."[12] The Ottawa Citizen concluded that "only the Uptown Horns provide the needed excitement, but an album cannot stand on the flash of a good brass section alone."[15] The Fayetteville Observer lamented that EEE "is essentially the same solo album Mr. Dixon has been making since his Triangle-based group Arrogance broke up—the stray pop gem mixed in with lots of catchy melodies that somehow don't add up to satisfying tunes."[18]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."Oh Cheap Chatter (Why Don't I Seem Like a Man to You?)" 
2."Silent Screen" 
3."Love Gets Strange" 
4."I Can Hear the River" 
5."Dark End of the Street" 
6."Gimme Little Sign" 
7."One Lonely Question" 
8."Calling Out for Love (At Crying Time)" 
9."Bad Reputation" 
10."EEE/T.O.T.T.V." 
11."Roots of Truth" 
12."Sweet Surrender" 

References

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  1. ^ Anderson, Dale (January 19, 1990). "Don Dixon, EEE". The Buffalo News. p. G34.
  2. ^ "Don Dixon Biography, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic.
  3. ^ Haight, Kathy (October 28, 1989). "Jack-of-All-Tunes – He Gets Raves as a Producer or Performer". The Charlotte Observer. p. 27A.
  4. ^ Newman, Melinda (Oct 14, 1989). "Dixon Aims to 'EEE'spand Horizons". Billboard. Vol. 101, no. 41. p. 34.
  5. ^ Ayers, Anne (17 Aug 1989). "A duo for the '90s: Husband-wife team in sync in the studio". USA Today. p. 1D.
  6. ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 347.
  7. ^ a b "Don Dixon". Trouser Press. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  8. ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 3. MUZE. p. 35.
  9. ^ Heim, Chris (6 Oct 1989). "Don Dixon is perhaps best known as a leading...". Friday. Chicago Tribune. p. 58.
  10. ^ Burliuk, Greg (3 Feb 1990). "Summing Up Poetically". Magazine. Whig-Standard. p. 1.
  11. ^ a b "'EEE' Spells Out the Dixon Line". The Washington Post. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  12. ^ a b c Heim, Chris (12 Oct 1989). "Rave recordings". Chicago Tribune. p. 15E.
  13. ^ a b McLeese, Don (October 9, 1989). "New Releases". Features. Chicago Sun-Times. p. 29.
  14. ^ "EEE". AllMusic.
  15. ^ a b Erskine, Evelyn (12 Jan 1990). "Don Dixon EEE". Ottawa Citizen. p. C6.
  16. ^ Shaw, Ted (16 Dec 1989). "Stuck for a gift? Try some music". Windsor Star. p. C2.
  17. ^ Willman, Chris (4 Oct 1989). "Secret of Don Dixon Gets Out at China Club". Calendar. Los Angeles Times. p. 3.
  18. ^ Mullen, Rodger (November 5, 1989). "Dixon Has Good Ideas but Too Few Good Songs". Leisure. The Fayetteville Observer.
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