MAY 31 Sha-Boom Bang! Phoenix Soul Party
"Sha-Boom Bang: Vintage Arizona Doo Wop, R&B, Soul, & Funk: 1956-71" celebrates Phoenix, Arizona's golden age of soul. On Saturday, May 31, John "Johnny D" Dixon, producer of the compilation, will join DJ Smite at [...]
Sunset Library to Host Recap
The Valley music scene that served as an incubator for the successful careers of a number of singers, songwriters, musicians and producers in the 1950s and ‘60s is the topic of the next Our Stories guest-speaker presentation Saturday, April [...]
Waylon Jennings/Sanford Clark Vintage Arizona Single
Zia Records To Release Waylon Jennings/Sanford Clark Vintage Arizona Single for Records Store Day Sun Studios in Memphis. Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Alabama. Sound City in Van Nuys. Audio Recorders of Arizona. One look [...]
Vintage Phoenix Q&A: Arizona’s Unofficial Music Historian John Dixon
You know him as Johnny D., as in Mostly Vinyl with Johnny D., the radio program on KWSS that celebrates rare and obscure soul and funk. But John Dixon is also an obsessive collector of [...]
Arizona Music Historian Johhny D. Back on the FM Dial
“It’s All About Freedom.” I’m embarrassed that I didn’t get to this story sooner, but Arizona music historian John “Johnny D” Dixon is back on the FM dial. Mostly Vinyl with Johnny D aired it [...]