Willie Dixon
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Biography
One of the cornerstones of blues and rock and roll history, Willie Dixon's songs inspired Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix and continue to evoke the spirit ingrained in classic American music. Discovering the blues while working on prison farms in Mississippi in the 1930s, he sang in gospel quartets and began putting his own rhymes to the music he heard on the radio. Moving to Chicago, he became an Illinois Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion and played stand-up bass in jazz groups, but was imprisoned during WWII for conscientious objection. It was as a producer and songwriter for Chess Records during the 1950s and 1960s that his legend was formed though, as he penned the classics Hoochie Coochie Man, Evil and Wang Dang Doodle for the likes of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf and Koko Taylor. The Rolling Stones reached Number 1 in the US with his track Little Red Rooster, Cream had a big hit with Spoonful and Led Zeppelin turned You Need Love into Whole Lotta Love; but it wasn't until he released solo album I Am The Blues (1970) and toured Europe with the Chicago Blues All Stars that he started to receive proper recognition. He later won a Grammy Award for the album Hidden Charms (1988) and was posthumously inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame after his death from heart failure in 1992.
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Top Tracks
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- Back Door Man
- The Same Thing
- New Way To Love by Memphis Slim
- African Hunch With A Boogie Beat by Memphis Slim
- Built For Comfort by Willie Dixon
- The Way She Loves A Man by Memphis Slim
- I Got a Razor by Memphis Slim
- Nervous by Memphis Slim
- Built For Comfort by Memphis Slim
- Move Me by Memphis Slim
- How Come You Do Me Like You Do by Memphis Slim
- Youth to You by Memphis Slim
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
- Dustin' Off the Bass by Willie Dixon
- Go Easy by Memphis Slim
- I Ain't Superstitious
- I Can't Quit You Baby
- The Little Red Rooster
- Spoonful
- That's All I Want Baby by Memphis Slim
- That's My Baby
- You Shook Me
- Just You And I by Memphis Slim
- She's Fine, She's Mine featuring Willie Dixon
