Willie Dixon - The Chess Box
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Artist: Willie DixonEdition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Chess
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- My Babe - Little Walter
- Violent Love - The Big Three
- Third Degree - Eddie Boyd
- Seventh Son - Willie Mabon
- Crazy For My Baby - Willie Dixon
- Pain In My Heart - Willie Dixon
- Hoochie Coochie Man - Muddy Waters
- Evil - Howlin' Wolf
- Mellow Down Easy - Little Walter
- When The Lights Go Out - Jimmy Witherspoon
- Young Fashioned Ways - Muddy Waters
- Pretty Thing - Bo Diddley
- I'm Ready - Muddy Waters
- Do Me Right - Lowell Fulson
- I Just Want To Make Love To You - Muddy Waters
- Tollin' Bells - Lowell Fulson
- 29 Ways - Willie Dixon
- Walkin' The Blues - Willie Dixon
- Spoonful - Howlin' Wolf
- You Know My Love - Otis Rush
- You Can't Judge A Book By Its Cover - Bo Diddley
- I Ain't Superstitious - Howlin' Wolf
- You Need Love - Muddy Waters
- Little Red Rooster - Howlin' Wolf
- Back Door Man - Howlin' Wolf
- Dead Presidents - Little Walter
- Hidden Charms - Howlin' Wolf
- You Shook Me - Muddy Waters
- Bring It On Home - Sonny Boy Williamson
- 300 Pounds Of Joy - Howlin' Wolf
- Weak Brain, Narrow Mind - Willie Dixon
- Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
- The Same Thing - Muddy Waters
- Built For Comfort - Howlin' Wolf
- I Can't Quit You Baby - Little Milton
- Insane Asylum - Koko Taylor
Free Music Notes for The Chess Box
Free Music Review: Original recordings of Willie Dixon's songs
Hit: 5 Stars
Like many blues musicians, Willie Dixon had an interesting background. He was born, and spent his childhood, here in Vicksburg. He never had formal music education, but a local carpenter taught him harmony singing. Dixon sang bass in a local gospel quartet. Along the way, he served a couple stretches on Mississippi prison farms. He started his career as a heavyweight boxer in Chicago, but switched to music and played bass, part of the time as a house musician.
Dixon started out as a studio bass player with Chess Records when it was a fledgling company started by the Chess brothers. The present set includes 36 songs written by Dixon, and performed by a variety of artists in addition to Dixon including Muddy Waters (Hoochie Coochie Man, etc.), Howlin Wolf (I Ain't Superstitious, etc.), Bo Diddley (Pretty Thing, and You Can't Tell a Book by its Cover), Koko Taylor (Wang Dang Doodle) and many others.
The boxed set is a must addition for your collection if you have a serious interest in blues. It also makes a good gift.
I would note that the Vicksburg Blues Society and others served as co-sponsors of the Willie Dixon Wang Dang Doodle Blues Festival held in Vicksburg in 2006. The City of Vicksburg has added a Willie Dixon mural to the murals on the Mississippi River floodwall near Catfish Row (the southern end of The Delta). The mursl, featuring the legendary Blue Room in the background, was painted by the noted mural artist Robert Dafford under the sponsorship of local blues patrons Ray and Nancy Neilsen.
The Chess Box Poster
Best known for his work as a songwriter, producer, and talent scout, singer-bassist Willie Dixon essentially built Chicago's Cobra and Chess labels with his sweat. Although this double-disc set does include five performances by the man from Vicksburg, Mississippi, himself, it's really a testament to his songwriting prowess, packed with recordings that made his tunes classics of blues and early rock & roll. There's Howlin' Wolf tearing through "Spoonful," "Little Red Rooster," "Evil," and "Back Door Man." There's Muddy Waters belting "You Shook Me," "Hoochie Coochie Man," and "I'm Ready." There's Bo Diddley delivering "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" and Koko Taylor launching her career with "Wang Dang Doodle." The set features excellent liner notes, and its only disappointment is that its label-centricity excludes Dixon's work for Cobra with then-youngsters Otis Rush and Buddy Guy. --Ted DrozdowskiBlues Music CDs
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