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Born into a musical family in Cleveland, Ohio, music surrounded Diane Dixon from a young age. Whether she was listening to her mother sing in a jazz big band or her older brother practicing for his gigs opening for the Doors or the Who, no instrument or musical experience was off limits. She met Jim Morrison backstage at age eleven, but her life-changing moment happened when her brother took her to see the Beatles. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Dixon says. “It was incredible to see what music can do to people. There were over eighty thousand people in that stadium fainting, screaming, and crying.” As a teenager, she decided to join her brother in his move to LA. Every time her brother lost a band member, he would enlist her to learn whatever instrument was needed to play with him. She played rhythm guitar and started writing songs at an early age. After a chance altercation in which a drummer threw his sticks at Diane and said, “You play,” while storming out of the room, she picked up the …show more content…
The Texas-born artist moved to California in the mid-1960s with her family. A mainstay at the Palomino Club, opening for the likes of Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Rodney Crowell, and an exhaustive list of other country music luminaries, her voice held a raspy quality akin to Wanda Jackson, and she possessed the storytelling ability of Loretta Lynn. With a unique guitar style influenced by the likes of Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry, she was a rare musical talent. To put it another way, she was a triple threat whose guitar style, voice, and overall musicianship would, in time, contribute to the unique musicality and feel of the Sirens’ early recordings. “When Rosie joined, she picked up our pace quite a bit. We were never serious, I suppose you could say, until she came along,” says
Born into a musical family in Cleveland, Ohio, music surrounded Diane Dixon from a young age. Whether she was listening to her mother sing in a jazz big band or her older brother practicing for his gigs opening for the Doors or the Who, no instrument or musical experience was off limits. She met Jim Morrison backstage at age eleven, but her life-changing moment happened when her brother took her to see the Beatles. “I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Dixon says. “It was incredible to see what music can do to people. There were over eighty thousand people in that stadium fainting, screaming, and crying.” As a teenager, she decided to join her brother in his move to LA. Every time her brother lost a band member, he would enlist her to learn whatever instrument was needed to play with him. She played rhythm guitar and started writing songs at an early age. After a chance altercation in which a drummer threw his sticks at Diane and said, “You play,” while storming out of the room, she picked up the …show more content…
The Texas-born artist moved to California in the mid-1960s with her family. A mainstay at the Palomino Club, opening for the likes of Emmylou Harris, Merle Haggard, Rodney Crowell, and an exhaustive list of other country music luminaries, her voice held a raspy quality akin to Wanda Jackson, and she possessed the storytelling ability of Loretta Lynn. With a unique guitar style influenced by the likes of Gene Vincent and Chuck Berry, she was a rare musical talent. To put it another way, she was a triple threat whose guitar style, voice, and overall musicianship would, in time, contribute to the unique musicality and feel of the Sirens’ early recordings. “When Rosie joined, she picked up our pace quite a bit. We were never serious, I suppose you could say, until she came along,” says