Had the terrific good fortune to visit Chess Studios a few years ago... "on duty" was Willie's grandson---amazingly he brought out the original "bass fiddle" for us to see...and hold!! Still amazed at the music history that instrument must have witnessed!
He was such a cool dude, he let me hold it too and was like I just remember him as my grandfather who got me kicked out of preschool for fighting 🤣🤣 it was cool for the descendent of one of the all time greats to be keeping the spirit alive… he also told us a story about being drank under the table by bb king 🤣🤣
Willie Dixon (1 de julho de 1915 - 29 de janeiro de 1992) foi um músico, baixista, compositor, arranjador, produtor e cantor de blues americano. A sua influência artística na Chess Records, bem como o seu papel no início das carreiras de Chuck Berry e Bo Diddley, foram preponderantes. Através de seus múltiplos talentos, ele contribuiu amplamente para moldar grande parte do blues de Chicago do período imediato do pós-guerra. Ele nasceu William James Dixon em Vicksburg, Mississippi. Durante sua infância, ele teve vários problemas com a lei, o que o levou a deixar o Mississippi e ir para Chicago pedindo carona. Lá, graças à sua constituição imponente, tornou-se boxeador e ainda conseguiu conquistar o título Luvas de Ouro na categoria peso pesado em 1936. Ao mesmo tempo, Dixon aprendeu contrabaixo, mas seu progresso foi interrompido quando resistiu ao recrutamento para a Guerra Mundial. II e ficou preso por dez meses. Após a guerra, ele se reuniu com seu professor, Leonard Baby Doo Caston, com quem formou o Big Three Trio e gravou para a Columbia Records. Dixon posteriormente assinou com a Chess Records como músico de estúdio até 1951, quando se tornou funcionário em tempo integral da gravadora. Suas relações com o xadrez foram por vezes tensas, mas ele deixou sua marca na gravadora de 1948 até o início dos anos 1960. Nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, a sua saúde deteriorou-se em grande parte devido à diabetes que sofria há vários anos e que posteriormente o forçou a amputar uma das pernas. Ele ganhou um Grammy de Melhor Disco de Blues Tradicional em 1989. Foi também nessa época que Willie Dixon foi promovido ao Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Willie Dixon morreu de insuficiência cardíaca em Burbank, Califórnia, em 29 de janeiro de 1992 e está enterrado no Cemitério Burr Oak em Alsip, Illinois. A influência de seus anos no xadrez continua prodigiosa. Ele chegou ao ponto de dizer uma vez "Eu sou o blues". Ele é de facto uma das maiores influências do género, seja através da sua escrita original e variada, das suas actuações em palco, das suas gravações ou do seu extenso trabalho de produção. Seu contrabaixo era de alta qualidade. Podemos ouvi-lo, por exemplo, nas primeiras gravações de Chuck Berry que fazem a ligação entre o blues e o nascimento do rock 'n' roll. Essa é a minha tradução... A genialidade de Dixon como compositor reside em sua capacidade de transformar temas musicais arcaicos do sul em arranjos contemporâneos. Isso resulta em músicas com fundamentos de blues e a leveza da música pop. Grupos britânicos de ritmo e blues da década de 1960, por exemplo, basearam-se fortemente no catálogo de canções de Dixon. Willie Dixon continua famoso por seu trabalho como produtor da Chess Records em Chicago e é considerado uma das figuras-chave na criação do blues de Chicago. Ele trabalhou com Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon e Memphis Slim. Posteriormente, um de seus grandes sucessos foi reunir músicos de blues famosos para criar conjuntos de blues de Chicago que ele enviou em turnê pela Europa.
Some seem confused about who Willie Dixon really was. He played bass on just about every record produced at Chess Records it seems, including most of the Chuck Berry rock and roll classics. He was also a prolific song writer, with his compositions being recorded by everyone from Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Rivers to Muddy Waters.
The blues are the roots to the tree of music, and without the blues, being the powerful roots that they are the fruit that the tree bears will not be good. The blues is the blues. It is life every day honesty every day feelings every day the blues are the greatest form of music.
Love This !!!!!!!!! Every Since I Was A Little One... Upon Arriving in Chicago at 10 yrs Old -- First hand lessons from these cats was an amazing experience and a Blessing.. My Times Fly !
1. I Just Want to Make Love to You 0:00 2. Sandy Field 5:30 3. I Got the Blues 11:20 4. Built for Comfort 18:18 5. Seventh Son 6. Jungle Song 7. Peace 8. Wang Dang Doodle
Rory Gallagher played "Seventh son" and "Wand Dang Doodle" during shows but didn't record them. I don't remember he named Willie Dixon among the blues men who influenced him, he payed homages to Bo Diddley but he could have done for Willie Dixon too. We found much things alike in Rory's cover of WDD
Great post and wonderful video. Thank you! I was lucky enough to see him in the 70's. He stood in for BB King. People left the audience when they announced he was the replacement...they missed the show of a lifetime. He arrived in a huge, old, car on the stage...maybe even pink. He rocked the place down. I'm so glad I missed BB for once. It gave me the chance of a lifetime. Thanks for the great music & fun memories. My best, Moppet
Wow,thouWillie!WithJamesCotton on the HotHarmonica!Take me now,Lord,to hear this BlastinBluesBand again,wherever they went!Yes,when my time is spent,and I'm done with worldly fun in the sun,and paying petty rent,this is the music to "heal the sick,raise the dead,make the little girls talk out of their head"!Way to swing&wing it,Willie&Company!The only reason a white boy like me has the humble high honor of playin the blues on the harmonica,,and.singin these songs,is because these National,and world wide Treasures,lived,wrote,played,and sang these,and so many songs like them!How lucky do I be,me& everybody who can still listen to brilliant blues like this stellar stuff?Got to see James Cotton play in a big old barn in the early 70's,in New England,on some College campus,watchin the steam billow from James' harmonica,on that wild winter day,way back when!Lucky me,baby!Lettuce grow Peace plus carrots,"cause like Willie said so wisely,"It don't Make Sense,If We Can't make Peace",Lettuce grow Peace plus carrots,MarkO'Harps!
Merci pour la vidéo et sa description. Dommage quand même que les entrevues n'aient pas été sous-titrées en anglais et dans d'autres langues ; Même si les sous-titrages générés par RUclips sont médiocres, ça aide à mieux comprendre les "discours", surtout quand le son manque de clarté.
+Datsik : The Blues (capital B) existed long before BB was born, and he was just a chapter in a much larger book, as great as he was. Willie Dixon is one of the Top Ten most influential Blues/Jazz musicians of all time, as is BB. Widen your vision, Sir.
BB King couldn't unlace Willie Dixon's boots. Get the Willie Dixon Chess box. Play his duet with Koko Taylor, 'Insane Asylum', and crank it. That will cure you of your BB King fixation, and you will know what's what.
Saw Willie in Salt Lake City in 1982 with the Chicago All Stars Blues Band. He was using a cane to get around, but he really made that stand-up Bass purr!!!
Merci infiniment pour cette histoire formidable d'un musicien incroyable et quelle classe! même s'il chante des chansons sexy!
we saw him the last time he played Chicago@tge Park West---awesome to say the least!!!!
I was fortunate to see Willie Dixon at the Long Beach Blues Festival back in 1983. To me he’s right up there with Robert Johnson.
He's known as the poet laureate of the blues ...!
Without Willie, there would not be a Led Zeppelin. His writing is legendary
No Rolling Stones also perhaps!
Butch Dixon on piano, Clifton James on drums and Mike Morrison on bass.
I play bass and revere Willie Dixon. His bass line of Johnny B Goode is amazing. Always fit in.
Had the terrific good fortune to visit Chess Studios a few years ago...
"on duty" was Willie's grandson---amazingly he brought out the original "bass fiddle" for us to see...and hold!!
Still amazed at the music history that instrument must have witnessed!
He was such a cool dude, he let me hold it too and was like I just remember him as my grandfather who got me kicked out of preschool for fighting 🤣🤣 it was cool for the descendent of one of the all time greats to be keeping the spirit alive… he also told us a story about being drank under the table by bb king 🤣🤣
Willie Dixon (1 de julho de 1915 - 29 de janeiro de 1992) foi um músico, baixista, compositor, arranjador, produtor e cantor de blues americano. A sua influência artística na Chess Records, bem como o seu papel no início das carreiras de Chuck Berry e Bo Diddley, foram preponderantes. Através de seus múltiplos talentos, ele contribuiu amplamente para moldar grande parte do blues de Chicago do período imediato do pós-guerra.
Ele nasceu William James Dixon em Vicksburg, Mississippi. Durante sua infância, ele teve vários problemas com a lei, o que o levou a deixar o Mississippi e ir para Chicago pedindo carona.
Lá, graças à sua constituição imponente, tornou-se boxeador e ainda conseguiu conquistar o título Luvas de Ouro na categoria peso pesado em 1936. Ao mesmo tempo, Dixon aprendeu contrabaixo, mas seu progresso foi interrompido quando resistiu ao recrutamento para a Guerra Mundial. II e ficou preso por dez meses.
Após a guerra, ele se reuniu com seu professor, Leonard Baby Doo Caston, com quem formou o Big Three Trio e gravou para a Columbia Records. Dixon posteriormente assinou com a Chess Records como músico de estúdio até 1951, quando se tornou funcionário em tempo integral da gravadora. Suas relações com o xadrez foram por vezes tensas, mas ele deixou sua marca na gravadora de 1948 até o início dos anos 1960.
Nas décadas de 1970 e 1980, a sua saúde deteriorou-se em grande parte devido à diabetes que sofria há vários anos e que posteriormente o forçou a amputar uma das pernas. Ele ganhou um Grammy de Melhor Disco de Blues Tradicional em 1989. Foi também nessa época que Willie Dixon foi promovido ao Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Willie Dixon morreu de insuficiência cardíaca em Burbank, Califórnia, em 29 de janeiro de 1992 e está enterrado no Cemitério Burr Oak em Alsip, Illinois.
A influência de seus anos no xadrez continua prodigiosa. Ele chegou ao ponto de dizer uma vez "Eu sou o blues". Ele é de facto uma das maiores influências do género, seja através da sua escrita original e variada, das suas actuações em palco, das suas gravações ou do seu extenso trabalho de produção.
Seu contrabaixo era de alta qualidade. Podemos ouvi-lo, por exemplo, nas primeiras gravações de Chuck Berry que fazem a ligação entre o blues e o nascimento do rock 'n' roll.
Essa é a minha tradução...
A genialidade de Dixon como compositor reside em sua capacidade de transformar temas musicais arcaicos do sul em arranjos contemporâneos. Isso resulta em músicas com fundamentos de blues e a leveza da música pop. Grupos britânicos de ritmo e blues da década de 1960, por exemplo, basearam-se fortemente no catálogo de canções de Dixon.
Willie Dixon continua famoso por seu trabalho como produtor da Chess Records em Chicago e é considerado uma das figuras-chave na criação do blues de Chicago. Ele trabalhou com Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Koko Taylor, Little Milton, Eddie Boyd, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulson, Willie Mabon e Memphis Slim.
Posteriormente, um de seus grandes sucessos foi reunir músicos de blues famosos para criar conjuntos de blues de Chicago que ele enviou em turnê pela Europa.
Nice session my brother our brother Willie Dixon...
They're all Blues Men. Willie Dixon is the second performer.
Had the pleasure of meeting him while he was touring, promoting the book.
So LUCKY to see this tour at THE Commodore In Vancouver B.C. Made me love the Blues even more.
His son was playing the electric bass Lil' Willie on harp, so many GODS onstage at once!
Some seem confused about who Willie Dixon really was. He played bass on just about every record produced at Chess Records it seems, including most of the Chuck Berry rock and roll classics. He was also a prolific song writer, with his compositions being recorded by everyone from Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Rivers to Muddy Waters.
Yes, he wrote most of Howlin wolf, Muddy Waters and little Walters etc etc ..'hits'
J'aime beaucoup le blues , et l'histoire du blues , ces racines ... beaucoup de respect !
super
The blues are the roots to the tree of music, and without the blues, being the powerful roots that they are the fruit that the tree bears will not be good. The blues is the blues. It is life every day honesty every day feelings every day the blues are the greatest form of music.
Love This !!!!!!!!! Every Since I Was A Little One... Upon Arriving in Chicago at 10 yrs Old -- First hand lessons from these cats was an amazing experience and a Blessing.. My Times Fly !
What a lineup Willie had with this band. Holy cow...
He should have statue in Chicago the man was Special very Special ❤
maravilhoso poder ouvir e ver novamente essa lenda do blues
Jungle Swing. Beautiful! 🤩
Ten likes 👍 for these men, true bluesmen !
"Wang Dang Doodle" is scary awesome. Peace. Out.
Wonderful ! Thanks for sharing !
Willie ' I am the Blues Dixon'. R.I.P.
The Master, Willie Dixon!!!
1. I Just Want to Make Love to You 0:00
2. Sandy Field 5:30
3. I Got the Blues 11:20
4. Built for Comfort 18:18
5. Seventh Son
6. Jungle Song
7. Peace
8. Wang Dang Doodle
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It's not Jungle Song, it's Jungle SWING
Rory Gallagher played "Seventh son" and "Wand Dang Doodle" during shows but didn't record them. I don't remember he named Willie Dixon among the blues men who influenced him, he payed homages to Bo Diddley but he could have done for Willie Dixon too. We found much things alike in Rory's cover of WDD
Great post and wonderful video. Thank you! I was lucky enough to see him in the 70's. He stood in for BB King. People left the audience when they announced he was the replacement...they missed the show of a lifetime. He arrived in a huge, old, car on the stage...maybe even pink. He rocked the place down. I'm so glad I missed BB for once. It gave me the chance of a lifetime. Thanks for the great music & fun memories. My best, Moppet
Ouahhh !!!!Lucky you, thank you for having shared this story!!
Wow,thouWillie!WithJamesCotton on the HotHarmonica!Take me now,Lord,to hear this BlastinBluesBand again,wherever they went!Yes,when my time is spent,and I'm done with worldly fun in the sun,and paying petty rent,this is the music to "heal the sick,raise the dead,make the little girls talk out of their head"!Way to swing&wing it,Willie&Company!The only reason a white boy like me has the humble high honor of playin the blues on the harmonica,,and.singin these songs,is because these National,and world wide Treasures,lived,wrote,played,and sang these,and so many songs like them!How lucky do I be,me& everybody who can still listen to brilliant blues like this stellar stuff?Got to see James Cotton play in a big old barn in the early 70's,in New England,on some College campus,watchin the steam billow from James' harmonica,on that wild winter day,way back when!Lucky me,baby!Lettuce grow Peace plus carrots,"cause like Willie said so wisely,"It don't Make Sense,If We Can't make Peace",Lettuce grow Peace plus carrots,MarkO'Harps!
MarkO'Harps,me,not"Moppet wrote &lived that last letter,and scrolled hisjive name in there,instead of what I typed in.Ho pathetic of you.
Uh-oh,wait a minute there, my bad,seems I hallucinated that forgery,and now I see it was signed by me!All Apologies,Moppet!
great band so much control, mellow down easy ❤
Excellent cour d'histoire Merci , jais le DVD il et super ♥♥♥
GRACIAS !!!
Du vrai Blues, j'aime
Love you Willie Dixon
Wonderful blues thanks.
Homenagem ao meu irmão que partiu
Great !!!
These guys had nothing to undetrsand from Siostakovich, Shoenberg, Ravel and so on :
they are perfect in their own way !
grande grande
Merci pour la vidéo et sa description. Dommage quand même que les entrevues n'aient pas été sous-titrées en anglais et dans d'autres langues ; Même si les sous-titrages générés par RUclips sont médiocres, ça aide à mieux comprendre les "discours", surtout quand le son manque de clarté.
Setlist:
1. I Just Want to Make Love to You
2. Sandy Field
3. I Got the Blues
5. Seventh Son
6. Jungle Song
7. Peace
8. Wang Dang Doodle
Con ustedes..!!! El Señor Willie Dixon preparense a deleitar sus oidos y refrescar su alma...
j'aime le blues
Tenk'mister'dixon😊
Wonderful!!
Res enkratno, užitek!!!
You do know which one is Willie Dixon, right? I think the title says it all. He is the blues.
Muito obrigado por postar esse grande show!!!
Good music
Not sure what a Blues man LOOKS LIKE! Its the MUSIC and the VOICE that make the BLUES. Not their appearance!!!!!
The big boss
14:10 Carey Bell just bringin' it like a boss!
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Alozaina.
Carrie Bell... on harp.
Jhon watkins on guitar
Cuba.
Best version of "I just wanna make love to you" or ?
A blues diety
John lee Hoover
He looks like a politician not a blues man. Appearance matters in the world of BLUES. THE SECOND GUY IS A TRUE BLUES MAN.
BBking is the blues... Sorry for that but its true... ;)
Datsik oh look you have an opinion. great.
+Datsik : The Blues (capital B) existed long before BB was born, and he was just a chapter in a much larger book, as great as he was. Willie Dixon is one of the Top Ten most influential Blues/Jazz musicians of all time, as is BB. Widen your vision, Sir.
BB King couldn't unlace Willie Dixon's boots. Get the Willie Dixon Chess box. Play his duet with Koko Taylor, 'Insane Asylum', and crank it. That will cure you of your BB King fixation, and you will know what's what.
Bb king was overrated
Saw Willie in Salt Lake City in 1982 with the Chicago All Stars Blues Band. He was using a cane to get around, but he really made that stand-up Bass purr!!!
LOL