Bob Hite hatte bis zu seinem Tod jedes Konzert mit den Worten „And don’t forget to
boogie!“ beendet.
Daran anlehnend sage ich:
And don’t forget Willie Dixon
Bob Hite until his death ends of each concert with the words, "And do not forget to boogie!".
It leaning I say:
And do not forget Willie Dixon
Man muss sich heute nicht immer aktuelle CD´s kaufen. Seit Enführung der CD liegen auch die Aufnahmen älterer Bluesgrösen in sehr guter Audioqualität vor. Deswegen appeliere ich an alle, beschäftigt euch einmal mit diesen Bluegrössen. Eine CD von Willie Dixon lohnt sich immer.
In den 60ern wurden viele seiner besten Songs von britischen und amerikanischen Blues Rock-Bands interpretiert. Cream („Spoonful“), Led Zeppelin („I Can’t Quit You Baby“ und “You Shook Me”) und die Doors (“Back Door Man”) waren nur einige Rockgruppen, die Willie Dixons Kompositionen aufnahmen. Aber kennt ihr auch die Originale von Willie Dixon?
Spoonful ist ein Bluessong, der von Willie Dixon geschrieben wurde und durch die Coverversionen von vielen verschiedenen Bluesmusikern zu einem Standard wurde. Zuerst wurde der Song 1960 von Howlin’ Wolf aufgenommen.
You have to buy not always current CD's today. Since the introduction of the CD are also photographs of older Bluesgrösen in very good audio quality. That's why I appeliere at all, once you busy with this blue sizes. A CD of Willie Dixon is always worthwhile.
In the 60s many of his best songs by British and American blues rock bands were interpreted. Cream ("Spoonful"), Led Zeppelin ("I Can not Quit You Baby" and "You Shook Me") and the Doors ("Back Door Man") were just some rock groups that took up Willie Dixon's compositions. But you know the originals of Willie Dixon?
Spoonful is a Blue song that was written by Willie Dixon and has become a standard by the covers of many blues musicians. First, the song was recorded in 1960 by Howlin 'Wolf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoonful
Back Door Man ist der Titel eines Blues-Songs von Howlin’ Wolf, geschrieben von Willie Dixon. Er wurde 1960 als B-Seite von Wolfs Single Wang Dang Doodle auf Chess Records veröffentlicht. Beide Titel sind auf dem Album Howlin' Wolf enthalten, welches als Kompilation von sechs Chess-Singles aus dem Jahren 1960 bis 1962 erschienen ist.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_Door_Man
I Can’t Quit You Baby ist ein von Willie Dixon geschriebener Blues-Standard, der durch den Chicago Blues-Musiker Otis Rush im Jahre 1956 erstmals aufgenommen wurde.[1] Der zwölftaktige Blues wurde von verschiedenen Musikern aufgenommen, unter anderem von Led Zeppelin, die ihn ihrem Debütalbum Led Zeppelin hinzufügten.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%E2%80%99t_Quit_You_Baby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can%27t_Quit_You_Baby
You Shook Me -Text von Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon - Back door man
Diese Bluesklassiker findet man auf dem folgendem Album von Willie Dixon.
I am the Blues
Willie Dixon
http://www.amazon.de/I-am-Blues-Willie-Dixon/dp/B00000293E/ref=sr_1_8?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1422476280&sr=1-8&keywords=willie+dixon
Willie Dixon ist der Mann, der nicht nur die Hits für Muddy Waters und Howlin’ Wolf schrieb, sondern auch Bands von den Yardbirds bis Queen beeinflusste. Dass Dixon nicht nur als Songwriter, sondern auch am Bass wie an der Gitarre oder (wie hier) am Mikro spielend seinen Mann stehen konnte, zeigt diese soundtechnisch ausnahmlos großartige Vinyl-Zusammenstellung seiner Hits. Obwohl man „Little Red Rooster“ oder „Backdoor Man“ eher durch und von Howlin’ Wolf kennt, glänzen diese Songs vom Meister himself intoniert in nicht minder leidenschaftlichem Licht.
http://www.guitar.de/willie-dixon-blues/
I Am the Blues ist ein Chicagobluesalbum von Willie Dixon, das 1970 auf Columbia veröffentlicht wurde.
Allgemeines
Ein Album I Am the Blues zu nennen, mag unbescheiden klingen, aber in diesem Fall ist es sicher nicht übertrieben. Willie Dixon gehört zu den Musikern, die den Chicagoblues formten. Er war, besonders in den Jahren, die er bei Chess Records arbeitete, der wichtigste Songschreiber und Produzent des Chicagoblues. Aus seiner Feder stammten einige der klassischen Titel des Genres. Auf diesem Album versammelte Dixon neun seiner Songs aus den 1950er- und 1960er-Jahren und nahm sie mit einer Studioband von bedeutenden Chicagobluesmusikern wie Walter Horton neu auf.
Das Album wurde in einer digital bearbeiteten Version 2008 auf CD neu aufgelegt, schon früher gab es einige Wiederveröffentlichungen. Die Wiederauflage ist Teil der Legacy Roots N' Blues Serie.
Titelliste
Back Door Man (Dixon) – 6:12
I Can't Quit You, Baby (Dixon) – 6:44
The Seventh Son (Dixon) – 4:18
Spoonful (Dixon) – 4:58
I Ain't Superstitious (Dixon) – 4:07
You Shook Me (Dixon, Lenoir) – 4:18
(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (Dixon) – 4:52
The Little Red Rooster (Burnett, Dixon) – 3:40
The Same Thing (Dixon) – 4:40
Originalinterpreten
Howlin' Wolf: Back Door Man (1961), Spoonful (1960), I Ain't Superstitious, The Little Red
Rooster (1961)
Muddy Waters: You Shook Me (1962), (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (1954), The Same
Thing (1964)
Willie Mabon: The Seventh Son (1955)
Otis Rush: I Can't Quit You, Baby (1956)
I Am the Blues is the sixth studio Chicago blues album released in 1970 by the well-known bluesman Willie Dixon. It is also the title of Dixon's autobiography, edited by Don Snowden.
The album features songs written by Dixon and originally performed by other artists for Chess Records.
Original performances
Four of the nine songs on I Am the Blues – "Back Door Man", "Spoonful", "I Ain't Superstitious", "The Little Red Rooster" – were originally performed by Howlin' Wolf. "Back Door Man" and "Spoonful" were recorded by Howlin' Wolf in June 1960 featuring bass work by Willie Dixon, piano work by Otis Spann, drum work by Fred Below, and guitar work by Hubert Sumlin. "The Little Red Rooster" was recorded in June 1961 with guitar work by Howlin' Wolf and Hubert Sumlin, piano work by Johnny Jones, bass work by Dixon, and drum work by Sam Lay. "I Ain't Superstitious" was recorded in December 1961 with Howlin' Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, and Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Henry Gray on piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Sam Lay on drums.[2]
The songs "You Shook Me" and "I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man" were first recorded by Muddy Waters. "I'm You Hoochie Coochie Man" was recorded on January 7, 1954 with Waters on vocals and guitar, Little Walter on harmonica, Jimmy Rogers on guitar, Otis Spann on piano, Willie Dixon on bass, and Fred Below on drums.[3] "You Shook Me" was recorded on June 27, 1962.
"The Seventh Son" was recorded by Willie Mabon in 1955. "I Can't Quit You, Baby" was not even released on Chess Records, instead it was recorded and released by Otis Rush on the Cobra record label.
Reception
The Allmusic review of the album by Bruce Eder has the opinion that the production on the album was well done, but that the original performances were still better.[4] Robert Christgau feels that Dixon's singing ability on the album is not as good as it could be, because he doesn't need to be a good singer since he's a good composer and producer.[5]
Accolades
The album was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1986.[6]
Track listing
All songs written by Willie Dixon, except where indicated.
Side one
"Back Door Man" – 6:08
"I Can't Quit You, Baby" – 6:40
"The Seventh Son" – 4:15
"Spoonful" – 4:56
Side two
"I Ain't Superstitious" – 4:03
"You Shook Me" (Dixon, J. B. Lenoir) – 4:15
"(I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man" – 4:48
"The Little Red Rooster" – 3:36
"The Same Thing" – 4:40
Personnel
The following people contributed to I Am the Blues:[1][7]
Willie Dixon – vocals, bass
Walter Horton – harmonica
Lafayette Leake - piano
Sunnyland Slim – piano
Johnny Shines – guitar
Clifton James – drums
Abner Spector – producer
Willie Dixon: Seventh Son
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon (* 1. Juli 1915 als William James Dixon in Vicksburg, Mississippi; † 29. Januar 1992 in Burbank, Kalifornien) war einer der bedeutendsten US-amerikanischen Bluesmusiker (Gesang, Bass, Songwriter und Produzent).
Leben und Werk
Dixon hat die Entwicklung des Chicago-Blues in den 1950er und 1960er Jahren entscheidend geprägt. Als Studiomusiker und Hausbassist bei Chess Records ist er auf zahlreichen Plattenaufnahmen zu hören. Als Bassist von Chuck Berry trug er auch zum Siegeszug des Rock'n'Rolls bei. Zudem war Dixon als Songwriter und Produzent für die Chicagoer Blues-Label Chess Records und Checker Records eine regelrechte Songfabrik. Er schrieb viele der bedeutendsten Blues-Songs, wie Hoochie Coochie Man, Evil oder Back Door Man, die vor allem in den Interpretation von Muddy Waters und Howlin' Wolf bekannt wurden. Aber auch viele andere Blues-Legenden griffen seine Songs auf.
Einem breiten Publikum wurden seine Kompositionen bekannt, als in den 1960er Jahren britische Rockbands etliche Titel von Willie Dixon aufnahmen, beispielsweise die Rolling Stones (Little Red Rooster), Cream und Ten Years After (Spoonful), Led Zeppelin (I can't quit you, baby). Auch Elvis Presley, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors und viele spätere Bands wie die Black Crowes interpretierten seine Songs. Die Liste der Bands, die Dixons Songs interpretierten, ist lang und bedeutend. Willie Dixon konnte mit einem gewissem Recht von sich sagen: „I Am The Blues“; er gilt gleichzeitig als einer der wichtigsten Ecksteine der Rockgeschichte.
Ende der 1960er-Jahre besann er sich wieder auf seine eigene Karriere und stellte verschiedene Begleitgruppen (Chicago Blues Allstars) auf, mit denen er auf Tournee ging.
1989 veröffentlichte Dixon eine Autobiographie unter dem Titel I am the Blues. Ein eindrucksvoller Höhepunkt seiner musikalischen Laufbahn kam 1988 heraus: Hidden Charms (mit den Stücken: Blues you can't loose, I don't trust myself, Jungle swing, Don't mess with the messer, Study war no more, I love the life I live, I cry for you, Good advice, I do the job). 1980 wurde er in die Blues Hall of Fame der Blues Foundation aufgenommen. 1992 starb Dixon an Herzversagen. 2010 wurde sein Song "Spoonful" in der Interpretation von Howlin' Wolf in die Blues Hall of Fame (Classic of Blues Recording ) aufgenommen.
Blues Legend Willie Dixon- I Am The Blues Live
William James "Willie" Dixon (July 1, 1915 – January 29, 1992) was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer.[1] A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the upright bass and the guitar and as a vocalist, Dixon is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post-World War II sound of the Chicago blues.[2]
Dixon's songs have been recorded by countless musicians in many genres as well as by various ensembles in which he participated. A short list of his most famous compositions includes "Hoochie Coochie Man", "I Just Want to Make Love to You", "Little Red Rooster", "My Babe", "Spoonful", and "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover". These tunes were written during the peak of Chess Records, 1950–1965, and performed by Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, and Bo Diddley; they influenced a worldwide generation of musicians.[3]
Dixon also was an important link between the blues and rock and roll, working with Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley in the late 1950s. His songs were covered by some of the biggest artists of more recent times, such as Bob Dylan, Cream, Jeff Beck, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and The Rolling Stones.
Biography
Early life
Dixon was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 1, 1915.[1] His mother Daisy often rhymed the things she said, a habit her son imitated. At the age of seven, young Dixon became an admirer of a band that featured pianist Little Brother Montgomery. Dixon was first introduced to blues when he served time on prison farms in Mississippi as an early teenager. He later learned how to sing harmony from local carpenter Leo Phelps. Dixon sang bass in Phelps' group The Jubilee Singers, a local gospel quartet that regularly appeared on the Vicksburg radio station WQBC. Dixon began adapting poems he was writing as songs, and even sold some tunes to local music groups.
Adulthood
Dixon left Mississippi for Chicago in 1936. A man of considerable stature, at 6 and a half feet and weighing over 250 pounds, he took up boxing; he was so successful that he won the Illinois State Golden Gloves Heavyweight Championship (Novice Division) in 1937.[4] Dixon turned professional as a boxer and worked briefly as Joe Louis' sparring partner. After four fights, Dixon left boxing after getting into a fight with his manager over being cheated out of money.
Dixon met Leonard Caston at the boxing gym where they would harmonize at times. Dixon performed in several vocal groups in Chicago but it was Caston that got him to pursue music seriously.[5] Caston built him his first bass, made of a tin can and one string. Dixon's experience singing bass made the instrument familiar. He also learned the guitar.
In 1939, Dixon was a founding member of the Five Breezes, with Caston, Joe Bell, Gene Gilmore and Willie Hawthorne. The group blended blues, jazz, and vocal harmonies, in the mode of the Ink Spots. Dixon's progress on the Upright bass came to an abrupt halt during the advent of World War II when he resisted the draft as a conscientious objector and was imprisoned for ten months.[1] After the war, he formed a group named the Four Jumps of Jive and then reunited with Caston, forming the Big Three Trio, who went on to record for Columbia Records.
Pinnacle of career
Dixon signed with Chess Records as a recording artist, but began performing less, being more involved with administrative tasks for the label. By 1951, he was a full-time employee at Chess, where he acted as producer, talent scout, session musician and staff songwriter. He was also a producer for Chess subsidiary Checker Records. His relationship with Chess was sometimes strained, although he stayed with the label from 1948 to the early 1960s. During this time Dixon's output and influence were prodigious. From late 1956 to early 1959, he worked in a similar capacity for Cobra Records, where he produced early singles for Otis Rush, Magic Sam, and Buddy Guy.[6] He later recorded on Bluesville Records.[7] From the late 1960s until the middle 1970s, Dixon ran his own record label, Yambo Records, along with two subsidiary labels, Supreme and Spoonful. He released his 1971 album Peace? on Yambo, as well as singles by McKinley Mitchell, Lucky Peterson and others.[8]
Dixon is considered one of the key figures in the creation of Chicago blues. He worked with Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Joe Louis Walker, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon, Memphis Slim, Washboard Sam, Jimmy Rogers, Sam Lay and others.
In December 1964, The Rolling Stones reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart with their cover version of Dixon's "Little Red Rooster".[9]
Copyright battles
In his later years, Willie Dixon became a tireless ambassador for the blues and a vocal advocate for its practitioners, founding the Blues Heaven Foundation. The organization works to preserve the blues' legacy and to secure copyrights and royalties for blues musicians who were exploited in the past. Speaking with the simple eloquence that was a hallmark of his songs, Dixon claimed, "The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It's better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on. The blues are the roots of all American music. As long as American music survives, so will the blues." In 1977, unhappy with the royalties rate from ARC Music, he and Muddy Waters sued the Chess-owned publishing company, and with the proceeds from the lawsuit set up Hoochie Coochie Music.[10]
In 1987, Dixon received an out-of-court settlement from Led Zeppelin after suing them for plagiarism, in relation to their use of his music for "Bring It On Home" and his lyrics from his composition "You Need Love" (1962) for their track "Whole Lotta Love".[11]
Dixon's health deteriorated increasingly during the seventies and the eighties, primarily due to long-term diabetes. Eventually one of his legs had to be amputated.[1] Dixon was inducted at the inaugural session of the Blues Foundation's ceremony, and into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980.[12] In 1989 he was also the recipient of a Grammy Award for his album, Hidden Charms.[13]
Death and legacy
Dixon died of heart failure[14] in Burbank, California on January 29, 1992,[1] and was buried in the Burr Oak Cemetery in Alsip, Illinois. Dixon was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in the "early influences" (pre-rock) category in 1994.[15] On April 28, 2013, Dixon's grandson, Alex Dixon, was inducted into the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame along with his grandfather.[16]
Actor and comedian Cedric the Entertainer portrayed Dixon in Cadillac Records, a 2008 film based on the early history of Chess Records.[17][18]
Tributes
French singer-songwriter Francis Cabrel refers to Dixon in the song "Cent Ans de Plus" on
his 1999 album Hors-Saison. Cabrel cites the artist as one of a number of blues influences,
including Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Lemon, Robert Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Blind
Blake and Ma Rainey.
Canadian rock musician Tom Cochrane wrote a song entitled "Willie Dixon Said" that
appeared on his 1999 album X-Ray Sierra.
Bob Dylan credited Willie Dixon for the music of the song "My Wife's Hometown" on his
album Together Through Life and gave special thanks to Dixon's estate.
Bernie Taupin English lyricist, poet, singer and painter, best known for his long-term
collaboration with Elton John is actively campaigning for Willie Dixon's posthumous
induction in the Songwriters Hall of Fame
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