I am truly blessed. I have someone who loves me and I love back, a great job and no one knocking on my door looking for money, I have my health, two beautiful children and two gorgeous grandchildren and I am truly blessed to know Willie Dixon's music. Thank you Willie for making my life just a little bit better..
brilliant performer , superb bandleader and most of all the best blues songwriter, the blues are american not european, we only copied . kind regards from scotland
Great upload of Willie the man. I recorded this entire show from Public TV a long time ago. The Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Zepplin, SRV, Doors, the Dead, Yardbirds, ZZ Top and many more covered a lot of his songs.
I haven't heard much of Willie Dixon but am a huge fan of the band DANZIG. I remember Glenn Danzig saying that Willie is one of his influences and that he was actually supposed to appear on the Danzig song "Heart of the Devil" but died the week before the recording session. :( Too bad, would have loved to have seen it. Willie's got a great voice and the more I hear it, the more I dig his music.
@seanB81 I'm also a HUGE Danzig fan (ever since the HTGK album) and I remember back in those days in 1992 when did Glenn said Willie had passed just prior to their collaboration/ duet for the song "Heart of the Devil". I always thought that was wicked cool that Willie had agreed to appear on Glenn's album as well as GD giving credit to one of the original Delta-Blues men. The combination of Glenn's occultic imagery paired with Willie's equally dark "mojo" would have no doubt made for an awesome recording.
Excellent - very good sound quality. I have been a great fan of Willie Dixon, so I am very grateful for this posting. It would be nice to know who the musicians are in this video, though.
Looks like a version of the Chicago Blues All-Stars that backed him when I saw him in an intimate listening room in 1985. At intermission harmonica man Carey Bell walked by my friend John & me where we were standing at the end of the bar brown bagging. He asked what was in the bag, then asked if we could pour him a full cup after John pulled a bottle of Early Times partway out. He took a sip from the cup, dropped his harmonica in it, and thanked us as he headed back to the green room.
this blues singer is really good. I think blues music os the best thing that americasn could invent about music. It s important to remember thar america music is black. All the popular songs; music and works are black......the american music is black
Love this man. (you knew that a LOT of them people were there to see you because of Zep, right Willie??? Sure ya did. RIP man. You were THE man, and everyone that knows, KNOWS.)
@jd558 I personally know Mose, and this is willie's song, mose covers lots of folks stuff, like his version of parchman farm... its a bukka white song..
It's one thing to cover a song and give credit to the original author of the work, but that's not what Jimmy Page ever did until sued. Using examples that pre-date the concept of copyrights borders on the ridiculous.
Thanks for posting this......Love Willie Dixon!!!!! BTW, sounds like casu 3 is a biggot....Make sure he knows Hendrix is from London and his name should be typed with a capital H, not sure he can speak English after reading his post..Later!
@casu3 almost right there, jazz already existed in france before it was in america sorry. and blues is a mixture of jazz, english and irish folk and african music. and ofcourse rock is a descendent of the blues, true american is relative in a country founded by immigrants ;)
Buddy, go read a little; or at least type "Led Zeppelin plagarism" here in RUclips. LZ settled 10 cases out of courtwith several artists; one of them was with Willie Dixon, they stole 14 songs from him. His family received 4.6 millions in the settlement. And they have 20 open cases; and more to come. New edition of LZ records have the corrected credits. Go read a little!
@MJimiD Yup. Led Zep ripped off Willie's You Need Love for Whole Lotta Love & should have credited him. Willie Dixon was a great song writer. But he also took delta blues & updated them for Chicago blues crediting himself as the songwriter. Nothing unusual in this, it was what blues men did. Even Robert Johnson took Son House & Skip James songs and said they were his own - check James 22-20 Blues & Johnson's 32-20 Blues It was an accepted blues practice, done by all blues men.
@monkeytown1000 When Robt Johnson did this, Black Bluesmen were NOT getting royalties, just a flat fee per side, however by 1968 things HAD changed. Everybody was aware of it because of the Animals hit "House of the Rising Sun", which was a traditional song, but credited to just Alan Price, and it made him rich. So when Jimmy Page claimed the songs as his, I suspect he did it for the money. I know Dixon had to sue Zeppelin (at least 3 times), as did Howlin Wolf.
GEEEEZ You know a lot of times you can read the commentaries and learn some different things ...interesting things that you wouldnt necessarily find in any documentary...like when someone goes to a concert and shares their personal experiences...but I really wish I hadnt even read the commentaries~ some folks out there are just sad excuses for being a human beings. Stop the racist and slanderous comments....it's saying more about you than anyone else could ever say!
@JacquelineGaertner While I agree that casu3 comes across as an idiot, I think you are mistaken about the origins of both Jazz and Blues. Jazz, the term, was coined in the western U.S. in the early 1900s in reference to the music coming out of Chicago. France certainly had it's unique styles of jazz but I think it's incorrect to say that they preceded and caused the American movement. Also, the Blues are 100% African American. No Irish or English influence. They certainly preceded Jazz.
I love blues and I love Willie Dixon and all the good singers/players of the 30s-80s, but I hate the vice era, and all that thing with pink dresses and hats, Its just a personal taste, and I dont like to sync it with the blues.
Influenced by and stealing is hardly the same thing.They tried to credit theirselves with writing the songs they stole,thus tried to steal royalties from the true songwriters.Down hear where I'm from we call folks that would do something like that "sorry sons-a-bitches".You can also check out some videos of Free and you can see where Plant got his stage 'persona".To me Plant is a pretty good Paul Rogers immitater.
@casu3 Don't talk crap. Yes a lot of people(mainly,but not all white) used and sometimes ripped off these great musicians but a lot of white artists did a great deal to make sure that Willie, Wolf, Buddy and the rest got the regognition they deserved, Stop being devisive. Lets celebrate Willie - that is what he deserves.
virtually every comment on this page is an embarrassment to willie dixon, the english language, and the history of the blues. if this is a survey of what comprises blues fans in the 21st century it's no wonder the work of greats like dixon is nearly forgotten. truly sad.
casu 3 i challenge to to a blues play off. caucasians cant play the blues!!!! obvoiusly the best blues guys are brothers but i consider myself a cousin.
This Man is on the Blues Mount Rushmore. He wrote so many great songs you cant get your head around this. Salute you Sir !
I would say 60% of my record collection is the Blues -- and Willie is my all-time fave!
Mr. Carey Bell on Harp, tight!
I am truly blessed. I have someone who loves me and I love back, a great job and no one knocking on my door looking for money, I have my health, two beautiful children and two gorgeous grandchildren and I am truly blessed to know Willie Dixon's music. Thank you Willie for making my life just a little bit better..
brilliant performer , superb bandleader and most of all the best blues songwriter, the blues are american not european, we only copied . kind regards from scotland
Never heard this one before so I listened twice. It's great, will listen again.
For all the verses listen to Willie Mabon's 1955 version
i like this song a lot.... I'm so glad of the different cultures there were and are in America.... OORAH!!
got to see him live here at my home town with a huge band of terrific and well known players...whatta night.
Yeah, Big Willie was no fool regarding his rights. And probably to best blues song-writer ever. And a gentleman at that.
This was a good recommondation from the people @ youtube. I am a blues music fan.
Great upload of Willie the man. I recorded this entire show from Public TV a long time ago. The Allman Brothers, Rolling Stones, Buddy Guy, Zepplin, SRV, Doors, the Dead, Yardbirds, ZZ Top and many more covered a lot of his songs.
one of the greatest Blues Legend
One great Bluesman.
Can't beat the blues from days of old
Johnny Rivers' cover of this was very good BUT Willie Dixon's original version is the greatest and can't ever be duplicated.
I haven't heard much of Willie Dixon but am a huge fan of the band DANZIG. I remember Glenn Danzig saying that Willie is one of his influences and that he was actually supposed to appear on the Danzig song "Heart of the Devil" but died the week before the recording session. :( Too bad, would have loved to have seen it. Willie's got a great voice and the more I hear it, the more I dig his music.
@seanB81
I'm also a HUGE Danzig fan (ever since the HTGK album)
and I remember back in those days in 1992 when did Glenn said
Willie had passed just prior to their collaboration/ duet for the song "Heart of the Devil".
I always thought that was wicked cool that Willie had agreed to appear
on Glenn's album as well as GD giving credit
to one of the original Delta-Blues men.
The combination of Glenn's occultic imagery paired with Willie's equally dark "mojo"
would have no doubt made for an awesome recording.
Pure and great Blues!!
Excellent - very good sound quality. I have been a great fan of Willie Dixon, so I am very grateful for this posting. It would be nice to know who the musicians are in this video, though.
Looks like a version of the Chicago Blues All-Stars that backed him when I saw him in an intimate listening room in 1985. At intermission harmonica man Carey Bell walked by my friend John & me where we were standing at the end of the bar brown bagging. He asked what was in the bag, then asked if we could pour him a full cup after John pulled a bottle of Early Times partway out. He took a sip from the cup, dropped his harmonica in it, and thanked us as he headed back to the green room.
Thank you for uploding .
He wrote all the cool tunes
Man, Willie looks filthy rich and so he should and not before time. Go Willie go!
lOVE YA.
this blues singer is really good. I think blues music os the best thing that americasn could invent about music. It s important to remember thar america music is black. All the popular songs; music and works are black......the american music is black
Thumbs up Willie Dixon!
dancing with Dixon
blues at its best go willie oooooooooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im the one
Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting this!
Love this man. (you knew that a LOT of them people were there to see you because of Zep, right Willie??? Sure ya did. RIP man. You were THE man, and everyone that knows, KNOWS.)
Great! the Blues still rules!
You can feel his energy in this song, It makes you want to tap your feet or get up with him and shake a tail feather
He was AWESOME even at the end of his days despite that DAMNED diabetes that caused his the loss of his leg and health.
nothin like it in the rest of the world -super stuff
God Bless Willie
Yes, 20th century! Thanks. I think I was a little short of sleep that day (-:
this is great,
but someone tell me, whats the different between blues/jazz/soul
Jack White brought me here
He was the blues.
He says I am the blues hey willie D
Breathtakin!!!
For a minute I thought it was Gene Gene the Dancing Machine!
LOVE IT
I know that the harmonica player is Carie Bell, but does anyone know who the rest of the band is?
I'm pretty sure that the guitarist is John Primer. John is still an active performer and well worth checking out.
Only Dixon can be this cool in a pink suit.
Piano armónica y willie
@jd558 I personally know Mose, and this is willie's song, mose covers lots of folks stuff, like his version of parchman farm... its a bukka white song..
Sounds like The Grateful Dead are his backup band.
damn, this sound so fucking good!
OOOH. That Suit...was polyester. Frayed....a bit beat up...Glorious!!!!
It's one thing to cover a song and give credit to the original author of the work, but that's not what Jimmy Page ever did until sued. Using examples that pre-date the concept of copyrights borders on the ridiculous.
He got that right, man is he ever the one. BLUES ALL THE WAY.....
Word :)
Hell yeah
The man is a giant ot the blues, hence his nickname "The Lion" - for that distinctive growl, I suppose.
My hero.....a god.....
hoo is this a liket
@gregboyds on Led Zepplin 1 almost every song was written, played and recorded by willie dixon many years earlier
This ain't nothing to the todays music. Well, nothing is better than todays music, lol.
wow - a revelation
Yeah, yeah.
@casu3 You must spend some time discovering bassist and my friend Reed Mathis.
@gregboyds on Led Zepplin 1 almost every song was written, played and recorded by willie dixon
Thanks for posting this......Love Willie Dixon!!!!!
BTW, sounds like casu 3 is a biggot....Make sure he knows Hendrix is from London and his name should be typed with a capital H, not sure he can speak English after reading his post..Later!
oh yeah!
And, before all of you blues aficianados go off on me - Yes, I know that blues pianist Willie Smith was also nicknamed "The Lion".
The pianist looks like ?uestlove.
@casu3 almost right there, jazz already existed in france before it was in america sorry.
and blues is a mixture of jazz, english and irish folk and african music.
and ofcourse rock is a descendent of the blues, true american is relative in a country founded by immigrants ;)
Buddy, go read a little; or at least type "Led Zeppelin plagarism" here in RUclips. LZ settled 10 cases out of courtwith several artists; one of them was with Willie Dixon, they stole 14 songs from him. His family received 4.6 millions in the settlement. And they have 20 open cases; and more to come. New edition of LZ records have the corrected credits. Go read a little!
Who is the harp player?
Thanks man
BILLY BRANCH
That's Carey Bell, not Billy.
That's Baby Doo all over his organ
@MJimiD
Yup. Led Zep ripped off Willie's You Need Love for Whole Lotta Love & should have credited him.
Willie Dixon was a great song writer. But he also took delta blues & updated them for Chicago blues crediting himself as the songwriter. Nothing unusual in this, it was what blues men did.
Even Robert Johnson took Son House & Skip James songs and said they were his own - check James 22-20 Blues & Johnson's 32-20 Blues
It was an accepted blues practice, done by all blues men.
Tuuuuuuuuuune
@drcanehdian
Robert Johnson is way up there...Willie's close coming up....
muito foda otimo ver isso
very.
Willie Dixon was an inspiration to many great rock bands like Led zeppelin, The Rolling stones and The Doors.
Where the hell did blues go? It's a crime not to listen to blues, let alone how much people does not do it.
And Willie made em pay....
@monkeytown1000 When Robt Johnson did this, Black Bluesmen were NOT getting royalties, just a flat fee per side, however by 1968 things HAD changed. Everybody was aware of it because of the Animals hit "House of the Rising Sun", which was a traditional song, but credited to just Alan Price, and it made him rich. So when Jimmy Page claimed the songs as his, I suspect he did it for the money. I know Dixon had to sue Zeppelin (at least 3 times), as did Howlin Wolf.
Please don't generalize. Music, peace, love.
GEEEEZ You know a lot of times you can read the commentaries and learn some different things ...interesting things that you wouldnt necessarily find in any documentary...like when someone goes to a concert and shares their personal experiences...but I really wish I hadnt even read the commentaries~ some folks out there are just sad excuses for being a human beings. Stop the racist and slanderous comments....it's saying more about you than anyone else could ever say!
Man, I hope those SCUMBAGS at the Burr Oak Cemetery here in Chicago left his grave UNTOUCHED!
for some reason his look reminds me of Patrice O'neal
the ORIGINAL
@JacquelineGaertner While I agree that casu3 comes across as an idiot, I think you are mistaken about the origins of both Jazz and Blues. Jazz, the term, was coined in the western U.S. in the early 1900s in reference to the music coming out of Chicago. France certainly had it's unique styles of jazz but I think it's incorrect to say that they preceded and caused the American movement. Also, the Blues are 100% African American. No Irish or English influence. They certainly preceded Jazz.
I love blues and I love Willie Dixon and all the good singers/players of the 30s-80s, but I hate the vice era, and all that thing with pink dresses and hats, Its just a personal taste, and I dont like to sync it with the blues.
20th !!!!!!!!!!!
THE FATHER OF THE MODERN BLUES
Eu não entendo nada mas é o maior barato.
Influenced by and stealing is hardly the same thing.They tried to credit theirselves with writing the songs they stole,thus tried to steal royalties from the true songwriters.Down hear where I'm from we call folks that would do something like that "sorry sons-a-bitches".You can also check out some videos of Free and you can see where Plant got his stage 'persona".To me Plant is a pretty good Paul Rogers immitater.
I guess Rory Gallagher did cover of this song
+Igor Tchernowitzer so did George Thorogood - great version
The Life & Times of Barney Trouble
you're right
Igor Tchernowitzer I don't think so. He did Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son. Different song.
Johnny Rivers had the big pop hit.
@dynastychick3 20th century and ever
The blasphemous blues, nobody does it better then the real king of the blues the man from Mississippi the Mudman himself.
Penguin dance
If you know you know #1 7th on
@casu3 Don't talk crap. Yes a lot of people(mainly,but not all white) used and sometimes ripped off these great musicians but a lot of white artists did a great deal to make sure that Willie, Wolf, Buddy and the rest got the regognition they deserved, Stop being devisive. Lets celebrate Willie - that is what he deserves.
likely Carey Bell on harmonica...Lafayette Leake on piano....Gary Dixon on guitar...
virtually every comment on this page is an embarrassment to willie dixon, the english language, and the history of the blues. if this is a survey of what comprises blues fans in the 21st century it's no wonder the work of greats like dixon is nearly forgotten. truly sad.
i am the one they call the seventh son
@gregboyds because Led Zeppelin stole and was influenced by, (essentially the same thing), by all these blues originals.
casu 3 i challenge to to a blues play off. caucasians cant play the blues!!!! obvoiusly the best blues guys are brothers but i consider myself a cousin.
@iclypso apostrophe fail :( it's=its