Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon
William James "Willie" Dixonwas an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the upright bass and the guitar and as a vocalist, he is perhaps best known as one of the most prolific songwriters of his time. Next to Muddy Waters, Dixon is recognized as the most influential person in shaping the post–World War II sound of the Chicago blues...
ProfessionBlues Singer
Date of Birth1 July 1915
CityVicksburg, MS
sadness blue making-love
I don't want you to cook my bread, I don't want you to make my bed. I don't want you to because I'm sad and blue, I just want to make love to you.
coming good heart helping
It does my heart good coming out here and helping my community.
blues heard sing woman
My God, I never heard a woman sing the blues like you sing the blues,
american-musician blues expressed facts life true words
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
love
I don't want you to be true;I just want to make love to you.
love
I don't want you to be true; I just want to make love to you.
girls men
The men don't know, but the little girls understand.
roots fruit
The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits
years singing church
I hadn't been exposed to music except in church. They used to have me singing a solo when I was five years old.
beautiful musician moses
Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.
beautiful boys drunk
Sonny Boy Williamson (II) was a beautiful guy, a straight guy... (but) he was always raising hell one way or another, so you never could tell if he was drunk or sober.
roots fruit
The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.
believe people facts
People have been brainwashed into believing that it's got to be down or it wouldn't be blues. But it's not so. It's got to be a fact or it wouldn't be blues.
america foundation has-beens
The blues has been the foundation of all other American music since the beginning.