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.
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
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.
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.
@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 ;)
@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.
Buddy, go read a little; or at least type "Led Zeppelin plagarism" here in TH-cam. 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!
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
@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.
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!
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..
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!!
Mr. Carey Bell on Harp, tight!
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
Yeah, Big Willie was no fool regarding his rights. And probably to best blues song-writer ever. And a gentleman at that.
got to see him live here at my home town with a huge band of terrific and well known players...whatta night.
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
Can't beat the blues from days of old
One great Bluesman.
Thank you for uploding .
This was a good recommondation from the people @ youtube. I am a blues music fan.
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.
Johnny Rivers' cover of this was very good BUT Willie Dixon's original version is the greatest and can't ever be duplicated.
Pure and great Blues!!
Wonderful! Thank you so much for posting this!
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
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.
Thumbs up Willie Dixon!
dancing with Dixon
blues at its best go willie oooooooooooooooooooooo yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa im the one
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
nothin like it in the rest of the world -super stuff
Great! the Blues still rules!
God Bless Willie
Breathtakin!!!
LOVE IT
Sounds like The Grateful Dead are his backup band.
For a minute I thought it was Gene Gene the Dancing Machine!
He was AWESOME even at the end of his days despite that DAMNED diabetes that caused his the loss of his leg and health.
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.)
Jack White brought me here
Only Dixon can be this cool in a pink suit.
He was the blues.
He got that right, man is he ever the one. BLUES ALL THE WAY.....
Yes, 20th century! Thanks. I think I was a little short of sleep that day (-:
damn, this sound so fucking good!
He says I am the blues hey willie D
Word :)
My hero.....a god.....
This ain't nothing to the todays music. Well, nothing is better than todays music, lol.
Hell yeah
wow - a revelation
Piano armónica y willie
@gregboyds on Led Zepplin 1 almost every song was written, played and recorded by willie dixon many years earlier
OOOH. That Suit...was polyester. Frayed....a bit beat up...Glorious!!!!
hoo is this a liket
The man is a giant ot the blues, hence his nickname "The Lion" - for that distinctive growl, I suppose.
oh yeah!
@gregboyds on Led Zepplin 1 almost every song was written, played and recorded by willie dixon
this is great,
but someone tell me, whats the different between blues/jazz/soul
Yeah, yeah.
@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.
muito foda otimo ver isso
@casu3 You must spend some time discovering bassist and my friend Reed Mathis.
@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 ;)
very.
Tuuuuuuuuuune
@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.
The pianist looks like ?uestlove.
Willie Dixon was an inspiration to many great rock bands like Led zeppelin, The Rolling stones and The Doors.
Please don't generalize. Music, peace, love.
@drcanehdian
Robert Johnson is way up there...Willie's close coming up....
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 ORIGINAL
@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.
And Willie made em pay....
That's Baby Doo all over his organ
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.
Eu não entendo nada mas é o maior barato.
Buddy, go read a little; or at least type "Led Zeppelin plagarism" here in TH-cam. 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!
20th !!!!!!!!!!!
THE FATHER OF THE MODERN BLUES
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!
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.
Man, I hope those SCUMBAGS at the Burr Oak Cemetery here in Chicago left his grave UNTOUCHED!
Where the hell did blues go? It's a crime not to listen to blues, let alone how much people does not do it.
Penguin dance
for some reason his look reminds me of Patrice O'neal
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!
The blasphemous blues, nobody does it better then the real king of the blues the man from Mississippi the Mudman himself.
Who is the harp player?
Thanks man
BILLY BRANCH
That's Carey Bell, not Billy.
If you know you know #1 7th on
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.
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.
@dynastychick3 20th century and ever
@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.
@gregboyds because Led Zeppelin stole and was influenced by, (essentially the same thing), by all these blues originals.
likely Carey Bell on harmonica...Lafayette Leake on piano....Gary Dixon on guitar...
@iclypso apostrophe fail :( it's=its
@oniallain1965
Married women...race doesn't play into it...every married woman has a back door man..
Better lock yours dude...
i am the one they call the seventh son
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.
@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.