Willie Dixon

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Willie Dixon (* 1. Juli 1915 in Vicksburg, Mississippi; † 29. Januar 1992 in Burbank, Kalifornien) war ein bedeutender US-amerikanischer Bluesmusiker (Gesang, Bass, Songwriter und Produzent).

Dixon hat die Entwicklung des Chicago-Blues und vor allem den Blues an sich in den 50er und 60er Jahren entscheidend geprägt. Er war als Songwriter und Produzent für die Chicagoer Blues-Label Chess Records und Checker Records tätig und ist auf zahlreichen Plattenaufnahmen zu hören. 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 Blueslegenden griffen seine Songs auf. Einem breiten Publikum wurden seine Kompositionen bekannt, als in den 60er Jahren britische Rockbands etliche Titel von Willie Dixon aufnahmen, z. B. die Rolling Stones: "Little Red Rooster", Cream: "Spoonful" und Led Zeppelin: "Can't quit you, baby". Auch Elvis Presley, Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors und viele spätere Bands wie die Black Crowes intepretierten seine Songs. Die Liste der Bands, die Dixon´s Songs coverten ist lang und bedeutend. Willie Dixon ist der Blues ("I Am The Blues") und gleichzeitig einer der wichtigsten Ecksteine der Rockgeschichte.

1989 veröffentlichte Dixon eine Autobiographie unter dem Titel "I am the Blues". Ein eindrückliches Highlight seiner musikalischen Performance kam 1988 heraus: "Hidden Charms" (mit den Song-Titeln: "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"). 1992 starb Dixon an Herzversagen.

[Bearbeiten] Songs von Willie Dixon in Coverversionen

• "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
• "Bring It on Home" – Sonny Boy Williamson II. (Rice Miller), Led Zeppelin
• "Built for Comfort" – Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO
• "Crazy For My Baby" – 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, Ry Cooder
• "Do Me Right" – Lowell Fulson
• "Don't Tell Me Nothin´" – Willie Dixon – used in the movie "Color of Money"
• "Everything But You" – Jimmy Witherspoon
• "Evil" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore
• "Hidden Charms" – Howlin' Wolf
• "Hoochie Coochie Man" – Muddy Waters, Shadows of Knight, The Nashville Teens, Allman Brothers, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix
• "I Ain't Superstitious" – Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck Group, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, Jeff Beck
• "I Can't Quit You Baby" – Little Milton, Otis Rush, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore
• "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace) – Styx
• "I Got What It Takes" – Koko Taylor
• "I Just Want To Make Love To You" – Muddy Waters, The Kinks, Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead, Foghat, Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison
• "Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor

  "Gone Daddy Gone" - the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano incorporated elements from "I Just Want To Make Love To You"; later covered by Gnarls Barkley

• "I'm Ready" – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith
• "I Want To Be Loved" – Muddy Waters, Rolling Stones
• "Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald & Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, Detroit Cobras
• "Let Me Love You Baby" – Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters
• "Little Red Rooster" – Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain
• "Mellow Down Easy" – Little Walter, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top
• "My Babe" – Little Walter, Spencer Davis Group, John Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Otha Turner & The Rising Star Fire and Drum Band
• "My Mind is Ramblin" – Rock Bottom
• "Nervous" – Willie Dixon
• "Pain In My Heart" – Willie Dixon
• "Pretty Thing" – Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat
• "Seventh Son" – Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band
• "Sin And City" – Buddy Guy
• "Spoonful" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, Willie King & The Liberators
• "The Same Thing" – Muddy Waters
• "Third Degree" – Eddie Boyd, Eric Clapton, Leslie West
• "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" – Howlin' Wolf
• "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
• "Wang Dang Doodle" – Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer
• "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
• "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. Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was appropriated, without credit, from Dixon's "You Need Love". Dixon and his publisher received credit and royalties, after a 1985 lawsuit was settled out of court.

• "You Shook Me" – Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin
• "Young Fashioned Ways" – Muddy Waters

Personendaten
NAME	Dixon, Willie
KURZBESCHREIBUNG	US-amerikanischer Bluesmusiker
GEBURTSDATUM	1. Juli 1915
GEBURTSORT	Vicksburg, Mississippi
STERBEDATUM	29. Januar 1992
STERBEORT	Burbank, Kalifornien