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If you like to rock, then let’s roll. The Jimmy Dixon Group, a collective of passionate rock & roll fans and creatives from all over the Midwest, meet up to record “The Rough Demos.”
Lead singer and instigator Jimmy Dixon shares the imaginative backstory of how the group came to be. When asked about their playful biography, he jokingly clarifies that with every good legendary tale there are grains of truth and elements of embellishment. However, what’s most enduring about their story is how their old souls and shared love of rock, and on-the-roll-rendezvous, shaped what is now the Jimmy Dixon Group.
Drawing inspiration from 1950s Chicago blues genres with an iconic vintage Fender electric sound, to the uninhibited energy of '60s and '70s rock 'n' roll, the band has been influenced by all kinds of kinds: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, The Who, Bob Dylan, and their creative compass of a supergroup, The Traveling Wilburys.
Scattered throughout the Midwest, The Jimmy Dixon Group comprises: Jimmy Dixon, lead singer, Cranky Dixon on lead guitar, "Midnight" Mae Dixon on piano, Benmont Dixon on strings, Chubbs Dixon on drums, Gary Dixon on bass and backing vocals, and Capo Dixon on rhythm guitars. Yes, plural, because he plays a 12 string, which is practically two guitars, right? No, but I digress. While these aren’t their government names, this cast of musicians do bring the authenticity and sheer fun of rock n’ roll to life in their new album “Rough Demos.” Kicking us off is their single, “In Thin Air.”
While I didn’t get the pleasure of speaking with the entire group, Jimmy does a great job of illustrating the collaborative and open source nature of the group’s songwriting and creative process. Working alongside their sound engineer, “In Thin Air,” is wildly up for interpretation.
Jimmy shares that’s one of his favorite things about music is its limitless capacity to resonate with people in their own way. One of the greatest things about music is that a song can have different meanings to different people - and nobody is wrong. It just means something different to them. What's most important is that the listener found meaning in the song to begin with. However, he mentioned that for him, the song offered an opportunity to evaluate his life, reflect on how he was spending his time—a finite resource—and determine whether the direction he was heading in was truly making him happy.
And what did make Jimmy and the group happiest, he noted, was the act of creating and finally getting together to record. "In Thin Air" was the first track they recorded as part of their first album, “Rough Demos.”
Jimmy shared how much he enjoyed watching “In Thin Air” evolve—it started with an idea tossed to the group, and each player added their own stamp on it, both through their instruments and by ideating on the direction and arc of the song.
"In Thin Air" features a chugging electric guitar groove, a feeling (for me at least) that embodies cruisin’ down a highway. Their engineer had an unusual idea to incorporate weather elements, such as thunderstorms, to amplify the experience. Jimmy reflected that it not only enhanced the guitar groove but also meshed perfectly with the crash cymbal hits, giving the track extra power and force. Ironically, it was just a happy coincidence that the song’s title aligned so well with the atmospheric elements.
To hear for yourself, you can find “In Thin Air” and the rest of the Rough Demos album on Spotify.
Connect here with The Jimmy Dixon Group for updates on their second album coming in 2025!
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NETHERLANDS — August 26, 2026 — Brook Lynn is stepping into a new chapter with “Love Your Enemy,” an atmospheric alternative pop song that turns an intensely personal battle with anxiety into a message of self-acceptance. Written after her America’s Got Talent auditions, the song captures the internal conflict of facing the person who can be hardest to silence: yourself.
Built around cinematic production and emotionally restrained vocals, “Love Your Enemy” explores the disconnect between appearing fine in public and confronting difficult thoughts in private. The song’s central message is reflected in its chorus, where Brook Lynn sings about being “my own worst company” before arriving at its most hopeful realization: “They say, ‘Love your enemy,’ / So I’m learning how to love me.”
For Brook Lynn, that “enemy” is anxiety. Rather than presenting it as something that simply disappears, the song examines what it means to live with those thoughts while refusing to let them dictate what comes next.
“I always want to give a hopeful message in every song,” Brook Lynn explains. “I always first want to explain what is happening in your head and what you feel, and then, at the end, give a message that you can get out of this, and that anxiety doesn’t have to hold you back from all the things you want to achieve in your life.”
That message became especially significant when Brook Lynn made the decision to perform “Love Your Enemy” on America’s Got Talent. Known by many viewers for her stripped-back cover performances, she recognized that performing an original song on one of television’s biggest stages carried a different kind of risk. But she also knew she could not continue forward without showing audiences the artist behind the covers.
“I just thought it was really important to also show the world that I’m not just a cover singer,” she says. “I do want people to know that I write songs and I want to be an artist and put that out there.”
Brook Lynn performed “Love Your Enemy” during the America’s Got Talent quarterfinals, bringing the song’s story of anxiety and self-doubt directly to a massive live audience. Her journey on the show ended there, but the response made one thing clear: listeners wanted to hear more. Fans connected not only with her voice, but with the honesty behind the performance and the willingness to speak openly about emotions many people struggle to acknowledge themselves.
“I do want to be that person with my music as well for other people,” Brook Lynn says, describing her desire to write about real experiences and feelings. “I always want to be really real with everyone, like talk about deeper stuff, not surface level.”
“Love Your Enemy” arrives as Brook Lynn looks ahead to Tales From The Woods, an upcoming EP intended to introduce listeners to a broader picture of who she is as an artist. With only two original songs currently released, she says she is excited to share more music and continue developing the sound and emotional world introduced through “Love Your Enemy.”
The song is not a conclusion to Brook Lynn’s story. It is the beginning of a more open one—one where anxiety can be acknowledged without being allowed to take control, and where the feelings people are often afraid to say out loud can finally have a voice.
Listen to “Love Your Enemy,” which received promotional support from Starlight PR.
Brook Lynn creates music that feels intimate yet powerful, cinematic yet emotionally exposed. Blending atmospheric alternative pop with minimalist visual storytelling, her work explores vulnerability, isolation, emotional tension and human connection through a distinctly modern lens.
Raised in Wilp, a small town in the Netherlands, Brook Lynn grew up surrounded by silence, nature and isolation. Music became a private emotional outlet and a way to process feelings that were difficult to explain out loud. What began through stripped-back online performances evolved into a growing global audience drawn to her honesty and emotional depth.
For Brook Lynn, music is never just about being heard. It is about being understood.
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