Willie Dixon

WilWillie Dixon (1 de julio de 1915 – 29 de enero de 1992), fue un bajista, cantante, compositor musical y productor discográfico de blues estadounidense. Nacido en Vicksburg, Misisipi, su nombre completo es William James Dixon. Fue el productor musical de la compañía discográfica de Chicago Chess Records, siendo considerado uno de los exponentes principales en la creación del Chicago blues. Trabajó, entre otros, con artistas como Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Led Zeppelin, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon, Memphis Slim, Washboard Sam yJimmy Rogers.

Willie Dixon escribió gran cantidad de canciones famosas de blues, utilizando principalmente el contrabajo en las primeras grabaciones de las mismas; algunas de estas canciones, y sus posteriores versiones por diferentes cantantes o grupos musicales, son las siguientes:

• "29 Ways" – Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon
• "300 Pounds Of Joy" – Howlin' Wolf
• "Back Door Man" – Howlin' Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir
• "Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, Grateful Dead, Jerry Lee Lewis
• "Bring It on Home" – Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison
• "Built for Comfort" – Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO
• "Crazy For My Baby" – Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon
• "Close to You" – Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors, Sam Lay, Rock Bottom
• "Dead Presidents" – Little Walter, J. Geils Band
• "Diddy Wah Diddy" – Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart
• "Do Me Right" – Lowell Fulson
• "Do the Do" – Howlin' Wolf
• "Don't Tell Me Nothin´" – Willie Dixon – utilizada en la película "El color del dinero"
• "Everything But You" – Jimmy Witherspoon
• "Evil" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus,The Faces, Steve Miller

• "Hidden Charms" – Howlin' Wolf
• "Hoochie Coochie Man" – Muddy Waters, Shadows of Knight, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner,Steppenwolf, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey
• "I Ain't Superstitious" – Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, Jeff Beck
• "I Can't Quit You Baby" – Little Milton, Otis Rush, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore
• "If the Sea Was Whiskey" – Chris Thile
• "I Got What It Takes" – Koko Taylor
• "I Just Want To Make Love To You" – Muddy Waters, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead,Foghat, The Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison, Paul Rodgers
• "Gone Daddy Gone" - the Violent Femmes'. Gordon Gano incorporó elementos de la canción "I Just Want To Make Love To You" en su versión.
• "I'm Ready" – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry
• "Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald & Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras
• "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Styx
• "I Want To Be Loved" – Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Sean Costello
• "Let Me Love You Baby" – Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters
• "Little Red Rooster" – Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton
• "Mellow Down Easy" – Little Walter, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top
• "Million Dollar Baby" – Dizzy Gillespie
• "My Babe" – Little Walter, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Othar Turner, The Rising Star Fire y Drum Band
• "My Mind is Ramblin" – Rock Bottom
• "Nervous" – Willie Dixon
• "Pain In My Heart" – Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones
• "Pretty Thing" – Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat
• "Seventh Son" – Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry
• "Sin And City" – Buddy Guy
• "Shake For Me" – Stevie Ray Vaughn
• "Spoonful" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead,Ten Years After, Willie King & the Liberators, The Who, The Rats
• "Study War No More"
• "The Same Thing" – Muddy Waters, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley
• "Third Degree" – Eddie Boyd, Eric Clapton, Leslie West
• "Tollin' Bells" – Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band
• "Too Late" – Little Milton
• "Too Many Cooks" – Buddy Guy, Robert Cray
• "Violent Love" – The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood
• "Walkin'" The Blues" – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay
• "Wang Dang Doodle" – Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters
• "Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" – Willie Dixon
• "When The Lights Go Out" – Jimmy Witherspoon, Kim Wilson
• "You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At Its Cover" – Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus, The Yardbirds, Beat Farmers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tim Hardin, The Merseybeats, Elliott Murphy, Long John Baldry, The Monkees, Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan, Le Petit Ramon
• "You Know My Love" – Otis Rush
• "You'll Be Mine" – Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan
• "You Need Love" – Muddy Waters
• "Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin. La canción de Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love" contenía frases de la canción de Dixon "You Need Love". Pero a la vez también contenía frases originales de Robert Plant, por lo que se le agrego a Dixon en los créditos de Whole lotta love Tras una demanda de Dixon en 1985
• "You Need Loving" grabada por The Small Faces en 1965.
• "You Shook Me" – Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin
• "Young Fashioned Ways" – Muddy Waters
  
  DISCOS PARA DESCARGAR :
  Good Advice 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Chicago Allstars Boogie 
  02.Tellin' About The Blues 
  03.Good Advice 
  04.Introduction 
  05.Built For Comfort 
  06.Rock Me 
  07.I Don't Trust Nobody 
  08.So Hard To Leave You Alone 
  09.You Don't Have To Go 
  10.Rock The House 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Ginger Ale Afternoon 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Miseries Of Memories 
  02.Wigglin' Worm 
  03.I Don't Trust Nobody 
  04.Earthquake And Hurricane 
  05.The Real Thing 
  06.Move Me Baby 
  07.Save My Child 
  08.I Just Want To Make Love To You 
  09.Sittin' & Cryin' The Blues 
  10.Save My Child II 
  11.Shakin' The Shack 
  12.That's My Baby 
  13.Ginger Ale Blues 
  14.Save My Child III 
  15.Good Understanding 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Hidden Charms 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Blues You Can't Loose 
  02.I Don't Trust Myself 
  03.Jungle Swing 
  04.Don't Mess With The Messer 
  05.Study War No More 
  06.I Love The Life I Live (I Live The Life I Love) 
  07.I Cry For You 
  08.Good Advice 
  09.I Do The Job 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  I Am The Blues 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Back Door Man 
  02.I Can't Quit You, Baby 
  03.The Seventh Son 
  04.Spoonful 
  05.I Ain't Superstitious 
  06.You Shook Me 
  07.I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 
  08.The Little Red Rooster 
  09.The Same Thing 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  I Think I Got The Blues 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Bring It On Home 
  02.I Don't Trust Nobody 
  03.God's Gift To Man 
  04.Hoo Doo Doctor 
  05.My Babe 
  06.Wang Dang Doodle 
  07.When I Make Love 
  08.I Think I Got The Blues 
  09.But It Sure Is Fun 
  10.I Just Want To Make Love To You 
  
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Live! Backstage Accesss 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Closing Blues 
  02.I Don't Trust Nobody 
  03.It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) 
  04.Shakin' The Shack 
  05.Wang Dang Doodle 
  06.Built For Comfort 
  07.Spoonful 
  08.I've Got My Mojo Working 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Mighty Earthquake And Hurricane 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Mighty Earthquake And Hurricane 
  02.It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) 
  03.After Five Long Years 
  04.Everything's Got A Time 
  05.Wigglin' Worm 
  06.Flamin' Mamie 
  07.Grave Digger Blues 
  08.Pie In The Sky 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Peace 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.I'm Wanted 
  02.Peace 
  03.It's In The News 
  04.I'd Give My Live For You 
  05.You've Got To Move 
  06.Suffering Sun Of A Gun 
  07.Jelly Jam 
  08.You Don't Make Sense Or Peace 
  09.Blues You Can't Loose 
  10.If I Could See 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Poet Of The Blues 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Back Door Man 
  02.I Can't Quit You Baby 
  03.The Seventh Son 
  04.Spoonful 
  05.I Ain't Superstitious 
  06.I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man 
  07.Little Red Rooster 
  08.Big 3 Stomp 
  09.I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man 
  10.It's All Over Now 
  11.If The Sea Was Whiskey 
  12.O.C. Bounce 
  13.Money Tree Blues 
  14.Cool Kind Woman Blues 
  15.Juice-Head Bartender 
  16.Signifying Monkey 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  The Original Wang Dang Doodle 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Wang Dang Doodle 
  02.So Long 
  03.Violent Love 
  04.Walking The Blues 
  05.Crazy For My Baby 
  06.This Pain In My Heart 
  07.Twenty-Nine Ways To My Baby's Door 
  08.All The Time 
  09.Tail Dragger 
  10.Wrinkles 
  11.Weak Brain, Narrow Mind 
  12.It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) 
  13.I Just Want To Make Love To You 
  14.Dustin' Off The Bass 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  What Happened To My Blues 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Moon Cattin' 
  02.What Happened To My Blues 
  03.Pretty Baby 
  04.Got To Love You Baby 
  05.Shakin' The Shack 
  06.Hold Me Babe 
  07.It's Easy To Love 
  08.Uh Huh Baby 
  09.Put It All In There 
  10.Hey Hey Pretty Mama 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Willie Dixon - The Big Three Trio 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Big 3 Boogie 
  02.If The Sea Was Whiskey 
  03.I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man 
  04.88 Boogie 
  05.Money Tree Blues 
  06.Big 3 Stomp 
  07.Since My Baby Gone 
  08.Hard Notch Boogie Beat 
  09.No One To Love Me 
  10.Don't Let That Music Die 
  11.It's All Over Now 
  12.Tell That Woman 
  13.Got You On My Mind 
  14.Etiquette 
  15.You Don't Love Me No More 
  16.Come Here Baby 
  17.O. C. Bounce 
  18.Cool Kind Woman 
  19.Juice-Head Bartender 
  20.What Am I To Do 
  21.Signifying Monk 
  
  
   
  
  
  
  
  
  Willie's Blues 
  
   
  
  Tracklist: 
  
  01.Nervous 
  02.Good Understanding 
  03.That's My Baby 
  04.Slim's Thing 
  05.That's All I Want Baby 
  06.Don't You Tell Nobody 
  07.Youth To You 
  08.Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues 
  09.Built For Comfort 
  10.I Got A Razor 
  11.Go Easy 
  12.Move Me