For those not in the know, Dion has set the release of The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher, an album companion to his book, co-authored with Adam Jablin, of the same title for October 24th, 2025 through KTBA Records both digitally and on CD.

It’s the label founded by Joe Bonamassa and Roy Weisman that has released his recent string of much lauded collaborative albums including Blues With Friends (2020), Stomping Ground (2021) and last year’s Girl Friends.

The new album is preceded by today’s release through all streaming services of “I’m Your Gangster of Love,” a brand-new recording and one of six songs on the album written by Dion and Mike Aquilina.

The new album is a meticulously curated combination of newly written and recorded songs, reimagined versions of several Dion classics as well as a representation of newer material recorded over the last decade. Like the book, The Rock ‘n’ Roll Philosopher album is a reflection of Dion’s life’s journey.

In the album notes, he explains, “I pulled together some of the songs I discussed in the book and some of them I changed.” He describes the book as “a wide-ranging memoir in which I talk about music, addiction, recovery, friendships, God, creativity, relationships and all the important things in life from which I’ve learned important lessons.”

1. I’m Your Gangster Of Love
2. New York Minute
3. Ruby Baby
4. Take It Back (feat. Joe Bonamassa)
5. New York Is My Home
6. Cryin’ Shame (feat. Sonny Landreth)
7. Dancing Girl (feat. Mark Knopfler)
8. In A Heartbeat Of Time
9. Serenade / Come To The Cross
10. If You Wanna Rock And Roll (feat. Eric Clapton)
11. Ride With You
12. Abraham, Martin And John
13. King Of The New York Streets
14. Runaround Sue
15. The Wanderer
16. Mother And Son

This dutifully refreshing new album opens on the delicious bluesfest that rocks throughout the brilliantly powerful I’m Your Gangster Of Love and the rhythmically melodious New York Minute and then we get the shuffling coolness of Ruby Baby, a brilliantly churning Take It Back (featuring guitar legend Joe Bonamassa), the harmoniously smooth New York Is My Home Cryin’ Shame (featuring Sonny Landreth), and both the Dire blues of Dancing Girl (featuring Straits’ leader Mark Knopfler) and the all-embracing rocker In A Heartbeat Of Time Along next is the Gospel-hued duo of Serenade / Come To The Cross and the grooved rock of If You Wanna Rock And Roll (featuring the legend himself Eric Clapton) and they are in turn backed by the rhythmically infectious Ride With You, a genuinely soulful ease that thrives within Abraham, Martin And John, then come the Chicago-imbibed rock melodies of King Of The New York Streets, the set rounding out on the generational rocker Runaround Sue, the absolute banger The Wanderer, coming to a close on the emotive Mother And Son.

The album also includes comprehensive album notes by music historian, journalist and longtime Dion intimate Gene Sculatti that are based on a recent conversation. He told Sculatti that the songs heard on The Rock ’N’ Roll Philosopher are, in essence, “an ideal set list ... the songs that I’d most like to play, all together in the perfect concert.”

This compilation is produced by multiple Grammy-winning producer Cheryl Pawelski and Brad Rosenberger and remastered by multiple Grammy-winning engineer Michael Graves.

Dion - I’m Your Gangster Of Love [Official Music Video]

Dion - New York Minute [Official Music Video]

Dion - Take It Back with Joe Bonamassa [Official Music Video]

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