Carl Dixon - Unbroken

[Stefan]

Tracks:

1. Can’t Love A Memory
2. Bowl Me Over
3. Nothing Lasts Forever
4. Every Step Of The Way
5. Summer Nights
6. All My Love And Hopes For You
7. This Isn’t The End
8. Drive Just Drive
9. Roll The Dice
10. Keep The Faith
11. Unbroken

 

From AOR Heaven:

::: CONEY HATCH frontman CARL DIXON releases new solo album “Unbroken” on November 29th, 2019! :::
Dixon’s solo debut ‘One’ (1993), appears to have been a pretty obvious move for a man of his standing (at least from the European perspective). Carl, born in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario had come to prominence in the early 80s as one of the frontmen for the critically acclaimed Canadian hard rock band Coney Hatch.

However, having released three albums between 1982 and 1985, Dixon had become pretty disillusioned with his career at that point; tired of the many frustrations that being on a major label (who don’t appear to care) brings on a touring band trying to get noticed. Ironically, as has been shown time and again, North American bands often appear to be curiously shielded from any success they may be achieving abroad. In Coney Hatch’s case there was another market out there bursting to embrace them in Europe, if only they’d known about it.

After focussing on songwriting for other artists for a while, eventually switching focus from North America, where Grunge was on the brink, to Europe, especially Germany, where Coney Hatch made a much bigger impact, Carl wouldn’t fully learn about it only until Coney Hatch’ performance at the 2014 edition of Firefest, England.

’One’ features fifteen songs, one of them (‘One Good Reason’) a co-write with Brett Walker, another one (‘Taste Of Love’) Aerosmith meets Def Leppard flavored.
Dixon’s first wife Stella ended up adding backing vocals alongside e.g. Mark Santer (Santers) or Mike Shotton (Von Groove). It took a month of recording in four different studios especially focussing on how the guitars sound. The Canadian still is very proud of it and about the fact that people still remember the album.

After being with The Guess Who and April Wine for a while and a horrible car crash in Australia in 2008, he’s back with Coney Hatch leading to the 2013 record ‘Four’ and has released a couple of solo records since. Additionally, he’s having a brand new solo effort by the name of ‘Unbroken’ coming out soon on with he collaborated with Frontline’s Robby Böbel.
After the re-issue of the classic album “One” in October 2019, November sees the release of the first collaboration between Carl and Robert Boebel, a long-time stalwart on the German music scene with bands like Frontline and Phantom V, among many. The result is the new release, Carl Dixon UNBROKEN, a powerfully sung and performed album that reaches the heights of AOR Melodic Rock. Memorable hooks, strong melodies, great guitar playing and production, and drumming performed by Mark Santer (Santers) and newcomer Dylan Gowan (Vesperia, Cardinal Street).

 

Carl Dixon's facebook

 

 

 

Edited October 2, 2019 by Stefan

[KarpetRydOFunk]

Love the song title. Hopefully it's good. I'll listen to it later. 

[heavyharmonies]

Musically it's not bad, but Holy FUCK is this thing brickwalled! I nearly ripped off my headphones off when it started playing, it was so much louder than the other albums I was listening to. Also, the treble has that distorted sizzle.

YUCK!

[KarpetRydOFunk]

Damn. I still haven't heard it. I'll throw it on when I'm home. That worries me, though. 

[Glen]

5 hours ago, heavyharmonies said:

Musically it's not bad, but Holy FUCK is this thing brickwalled! I nearly ripped off my headphones off when it started playing, it was so much louder than the other albums I was listening to. Also, the treble has that distorted sizzle.

YUCK!

nice song but as you say that production is horrible. esp that distorted edge 

[heavyharmonies]

Can anyone else who has received the official promo download of this album please PM me as to whether or not they are seeing the same symptoms. Word from the label is that they are not seeing (hearing) the same thing at their end. The image shown above is of track 1 straight from my download; no conversion or adjustments.

Thanks,

-Dan

[Stefan]

New songs 'Every Step Of The Way' & 'Nothing Lasts Forever'.

Maybe not the best singer out there but otherwise good stuff.

 

 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2019 by Stefan

[Tabe]

Yeah, there's some good songs in there but the vocals are pretty bad.  I'll pass.

[Geoff]

This actually sounds pretty cool to me. I'll check it out. 

[Mafisen]

Nothing wrong with the vocals to me. Always liked Carl Dixon and Cindy Hatch, including his voice. 

They played at Sweden Rock Festival once and I loved the set. Dixon also played with April Wine that same festival. 

Edited November 14, 2019 by Mafisen

[KarpetRydOFunk]

1 hour ago, Mafisen said:

Nothing wrong with the vocals to me. Always liked Carl Dixon and Cindy Hatch, including his voice. 

They played at Sweden Rock Festival once and I loved the set. Dixon also played with April Wine that same festival. 

Love that Cindy Hatch. 

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[Mafisen]

Goddamit. Sounds like an 80s porn star. 😂

[Geoff]

So this is actually a pretty good album. A small handful of weaker tunes, but for the most part it's all good stuff. I particularly like the auto-biographical 'Nothing Lasts Forever.' Otherwise, 'Every Step of the Way' and 'Keep the faith' are two of the best of the rest. But an enjoyable listen this is.   

[Jez]

On 12/4/2019 at 12:06 PM, Geoff said:

So this is actually a pretty good album. A small handful of weaker tunes, but for the most part it's all good stuff. I particularly like the auto-biographical 'Nothing Lasts Forever.' Otherwise, 'Every Step of the Way' and 'Keep the faith' are two of the best of the rest. But an enjoyable listen this is.   

What Geoff said...really good over all...A nice surprise