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Dwight Twilley “Soundtrack”
12 ALL-NEW ASTONISHING DWIGHT TWILLEY SONGS Dwight Twilley’s new studio album SOUNDTRACK is unique and perhaps the most powerful recording of Twilley’s career. Mr. Twilley signed on to write and produce the disc to accompany a film documentary about his …
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Dwight Twilley Featured in the New issue of Bucket Full Of Brains Magazine
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Review Excerpt – Sound + Vision
December, 2010 If we’re going to have a king of power pop, Dwight Twilley may be the man. His 1975 debut single,’ I’m on Fire,’ was a defining song of the genre, and all of his albums since then have …
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Medleyville – Q&A: Dwight Twilley
November 9, 2010 During the heyday of major record labels, album promotion was part of the system and handled by a designated staff. Singer/songwriter/guitarist Dwight Twilley remembers that era very well, but he doesn’t benefit from that kind of luxury …
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“Catching Up with Dwight Twilley” – beyondrace.com
Dwight Twilley has been an anomaly in popular music in more ways than one. Firstly, in the sense that his career has consisted largely of near misses and surprise hits. Secondly because one wouldn’t normally expect one of the great, …
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IconFetch – Dwight Twilley Interview
October 12, 2010 Dwight Twilley is best known for a pair of #16 hits: “I’m On Fire,” from 1975, and “Girls,” from 1984, but he’s been making songs with catchy hooks his entire career. He’s set to release a brand …
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“20 Questions with Dwight Twilley” – PopMatters
By PopMatters Staff 3 December 2010 Tulsa native Dwight Twilley got his start in the early 1970s when he and his friend/partner, the late Phil Seymour, journeyed to the legendary Sun Studio in Memphis and soaked up the essence of …
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Songfacts – Songwriter Interview – Dwight Twilley
September 15, 2010 Along with his collaborator and follow Tulsan Phil Seymour, who succumbed to cancer in 1993, Dwight Twilley scored a hit with his first single, “I’m On Fire,” which went to #16 in 1975. The typical record industry …
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The Ones That (Almost) Got Away: OMD- Dwight Twilley- Richard Thompson- Bad Cop- Johnny Clegg- Diplomats of Solid Sound
by Kevin Wierzbicki October 1, 2010 No matter how hard we try, there’s so much new music being released every week that it’s just impossible to write about all of it. That means that a lot of worthy stuff from …
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Northern Express – Green Blimp CD Review
October 1, 2010 Everyone who remembers “Girls,” raise your hand. The MTV favorite should have been much more than just a moderate hit in the mid-80s. Twilley’s power pop has toughened a bit in the intervening years, and if Green …
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“The Ponce de Leon of Power Pop” – CriticalMob
October 5, 2010 “Get Up,” Green Blimp‘s opening track, makes a case for Tulsa rocker Dwight Twilley as the Ponce de Leon of power pop, bathing in a sonic fountain of youth. At 59, Twilley sounds almost identical to the …
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Dwight Twilley’s ‘Green Blimp’: Blissful, Emotive Pop
October 15, 2010 The Dwight Twilley Band scored its biggest hit, “I’m on Fire,” in 1975, and then struggled for years to achieve stardom that never arrived. Now the band’s lead singer, Twilley, is back. Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews …
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Icon Fetch – Green Blimp – CD Review
October 5, 2010 Melodic songwriter Dwight Twilley has returned with Green Blimp, his first album of new material in five years. In the meantime, he’s been busy cleaning out his archives; he’s recorded a ton of material that has gotten …
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‘Yellow Submarine’? No, Dwight Twilley’s ‘Green Blimp’
Writing about these power-pop gods, it demands two posts each time. You need one for the guys — and they’re almost always guys — who actually know who you’re writing about. That’s usually, let’s see, you, you and definitely the …
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Dwight Twilley’s ‘Green Blimp’: Blissful, Emotive Pop
The Dwight Twilley Band scored its biggest hit, “I’m on Fire,” in 1975, and then struggled for years to achieve stardom that never arrived. Now the band’s lead singer, Twilley, is back. Rock critic Ken Tucker reviews his new album, …
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Still Looking for the Magic
Oklahoma native Dwight Twilley has had a long and storied career with just as many successes as near misses. He is best known for two Top 20 hits, 1975’s “I’m on Fire” and 1984’s “Girls”, the latter of which was …
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Blurt
Along with such hallowed rock ‘n’ roll icons as Alex Chilton, Todd Rundgren, and those guys in Badfinger, singer/songwriter Dwight Twilley is one of the godfathers of power pop, influencing a generation of artists that includes Paul Collins, Peter Case, …
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Still On Fire
In the summer of ’75 an inordinately handsome 24-year old Okie with a joint Sun Records/Elvis and British Invasion/Beatles fixation vaulted from out of nowhere into the Top 20 with the chiming/throbbing radio anthem “I’m On Fire.” Credited to The …
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BC Music
Dwight Twilley has been cranking out the tunes for over 35 years. He met future music partner and bandmate Phil Seymour back in 1967 as a teenager. They had both gone to the theater to see a performance of A …
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Fame Review
Dwight Twilley has enjoyed an unusual career of hit singles but not hit LPs. Green Blimp could be the disc that turns that around. From 1975 to 1992, he enjoyed several smashes both on the charts and in the Wayne’s …
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Muzik Reviews
I didn’t know Dwight Twilley at all before I heard Green Blimp, although I had heard a couple of his songs and never knew who wrote them. After I checked out this latest album, set for release on October 5, …
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Luxury Experience
Dwight Twilley – Green Blimp was self-released on the Big Oak Records label and was produced by Dwight Twilley. Always at the forefront of creativity and ideas, Dwight wanted to “kick start” as well as to help fund the self-release, …
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Midwest Record Entertainment
DWIGHT TWILLEY/Green Blimp: And if you’re ready for some power pop nostalgia, Twilley don’t mind. Going back to Tulsa with Susan Cowsill and some other like minded travelers, Twilley brings it back for those that dug it the first time …
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