Song · Dessa
“Dixon's Girl” by Dessa
From the album A Badly Broken Code (2010)
“Dixon's Girl” by Dessa appears on 2 radio countdowns from 1 station between 2010 and 2025. It was first released in 2010 on the album A Badly Broken Code. Its best result is #10 on The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #183 indie & aaa song of 2010 and #2,762 indie & aaa song of all time.
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Dessa wrote "Dixon's Girl" with Dustin Kiel and Joey Van Phillips for A Badly Broken Code, her first full-length album, released on Doomtree Records in 2010; Dessa is part of Doomtree, the Minneapolis indie hip-hop collective. MK Larada produced the track and Joe Mabbott mixed it.
The album borrowed its title from a line in "Nostalgia", a poem by Billy Collins, a bookish source for a hip-hop record. Critics took notice: Tiny Mix Tapes gave it 4 stars out of 5, the A.V. Club placed it 20th among the best albums of 2010, and City Pages crowned it the best local album of the previous 12 months.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz.
RockLists rankings
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 10 | The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN | The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 | 88 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | The Current | 893 Essential Songs of The Current: 2005 to Now | 893 |
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