Romantic Depressive

Don Dixon’s deepest and most pervasive impact in popular music has been as a producer; he’s been behind the desk for influential albums by the likes of R.E.M., the Smithereens, Guadalcanal Diary, and Marshall Crenshaw. But he’s an exceptionally gifted songwriter as well, and on Romantic Depressive he writes and performs some of the most solid songs of his career — notably “Giving Up the Ghost,” one of the most finely crafted documents of romantic obsession ever created.