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Willie Dixon's writing not only lit the night fires in 1950s Chicago's South Side, where he was Chess Records' outstanding house writer and resident bassist, but his handiwork burned a smoke hole in the spectacular British Invasion five to ten years later -- an aftershock bigger than the original earthquake. One by one, 1963 Blighty bands turned to his catalog as an R&B launching point, until his songs became more identifiable with the Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, and Pretty Things (and later, Yardbirds offshoots Cream and Led Zeppelin), than they did with the raunchier, meaner originals by Chess' bigger talents (Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, and Little Walter). What is less known is that, like his contemporary Otis Blackwell and, later, Burt Bacharach, Dixon recorded his own versions of the songs that made stars of others. In fact, his recording career began way back in 1946 with the Big Three Trio, first for Bullet Records, and then with Columbia. Columbia had him again in 1970, during the blues/R&B/'50s rock & roll revival, when Dixon assembled the Blues All-Stars to belt more relaxed yet down-and-dirty, funkier versions of his classics. Seven tracks from that LP, I Am the Blues, open this CD, the throaty-voiced Dixon showing off impeccable timing on bass and his gentlemanly howling, taking a belated bow on such favorites as "Back Door Man," "Little Red Rooster," "The Seventh Son," "I'm Your Hootchie Coochie Man," and "I Can't Quit You Baby." If Dixon is not the wild, unfettered talent that his Chess singers were -- these takes aren't as rough or as hot -- he cuts it just the same, with style. Thereafter, Poet visits Dixon's earliest studio forays over two decades prior. The contrast is marked, but not difficult to digest. Coming off as the spiritual cronies of Ivory Joe Hunter, Big Joe Turner, Professor Longhair, and other R&B giants of the late '40s, the Big Three trio is much jauntier, danceable, and less hulking than Dixon's 1970 stuff. You can imagine sailors swinging their ankles in gin joints to this boogie swing. You can also envision the booze a-pouring and the sweat a-flying in the hip dives of 1940s darktown, as the pumping piano, engine motor guitar, and slap-dash drums keep the jittery bounce coming underneath the sweet harmonies. Though most will head for the famous tunes from 18-23 years later, it is the 1947-1952 Big Three sessions that prove the most interesting historically, a sound more lost to modern ears than the traditional blues that proceeds it. Either way, Dixon shows why he's a beloved musical hero to musicians and scholarly fans.
© Jack Rabid /TiVo
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Clifton James, Drums - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Clifton James, Drums - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Clifton James, Drums - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Clifton James, Drums - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - W. Dixon, Lyricist - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - Clifton James, Drums - Adam Block, Producer - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Composer - Willie Dixon, Lyricist - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - Clifton James, Drums - Adam Block, Producer - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Composer - Willie Dixon, Lyricist - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Sunnyland Slim, Piano - Johnny Shinas, Guitar - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - Clifton James, Drums - Adam Block, Producer - Willie Dixon, Composer - Willie Dixon, Vocal - Willie Dixon, Lyricist - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1970 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
O. CRAWFORD, Composer - O. CRAWFORD, Lyricist - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - W. Dixon, Lyricist - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Hillard Brown, Drums - Ollie Crawford, Guitar - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - L. Caston, Composer - L. Caston, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1949 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Big Three Trio, Vocal - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - W. Dixon, Lyricist - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Hillard Brown, Drums - Ollie Crawford, Guitar - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - L. Caston, Composer - L. Caston, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1949 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Baby Duke, Piano - Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Charles Sanders, Drums - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - L. Caston, Composer - L. Caston, Lyricist - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1951 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Charles Sanders, Drums - Leonard Caston, Piano - Leonard Caston, Composer - Leonard Caston, Lyricist - Willie Dixon, Composer - Willie Dixon, Lyricist - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1947 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
O. CRAWFORD, Composer - O. CRAWFORD, Lyricist - Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Performer - Charles Sanders, Drums - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1990 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Charles Sanders, Drums - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - W. Dixon, Lyricist - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1947 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Charles Sanders, Drums - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1990 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
O. CRAWFORD, Composer - O. CRAWFORD, Lyricist - Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Charles Sanders, Drums - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1990 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Bernardo Dennis, Guitar - Big Three Trio, Vocal - Charles Sanders, Drums - Leonard Caston, Piano - Willie Dixon, Performer - Willie Dixon, Bass - W. Dixon, Composer - Lawrence Cohn, Producer - Adam Block, Producer - Patti Matheny, A&R Coordinator - David Mitson, Mastering Engineer
Originally Released 1947 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
Chronique
Willie Dixon's writing not only lit the night fires in 1950s Chicago's South Side, where he was Chess Records' outstanding house writer and resident bassist, but his handiwork burned a smoke hole in the spectacular British Invasion five to ten years later -- an aftershock bigger than the original earthquake. One by one, 1963 Blighty bands turned to his catalog as an R&B launching point, until his songs became more identifiable with the Rolling Stones, Yardbirds, and Pretty Things (and later, Yardbirds offshoots Cream and Led Zeppelin), than they did with the raunchier, meaner originals by Chess' bigger talents (Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Otis Rush, and Little Walter). What is less known is that, like his contemporary Otis Blackwell and, later, Burt Bacharach, Dixon recorded his own versions of the songs that made stars of others. In fact, his recording career began way back in 1946 with the Big Three Trio, first for Bullet Records, and then with Columbia. Columbia had him again in 1970, during the blues/R&B/'50s rock & roll revival, when Dixon assembled the Blues All-Stars to belt more relaxed yet down-and-dirty, funkier versions of his classics. Seven tracks from that LP, I Am the Blues, open this CD, the throaty-voiced Dixon showing off impeccable timing on bass and his gentlemanly howling, taking a belated bow on such favorites as "Back Door Man," "Little Red Rooster," "The Seventh Son," "I'm Your Hootchie Coochie Man," and "I Can't Quit You Baby." If Dixon is not the wild, unfettered talent that his Chess singers were -- these takes aren't as rough or as hot -- he cuts it just the same, with style. Thereafter, Poet visits Dixon's earliest studio forays over two decades prior. The contrast is marked, but not difficult to digest. Coming off as the spiritual cronies of Ivory Joe Hunter, Big Joe Turner, Professor Longhair, and other R&B giants of the late '40s, the Big Three trio is much jauntier, danceable, and less hulking than Dixon's 1970 stuff. You can imagine sailors swinging their ankles in gin joints to this boogie swing. You can also envision the booze a-pouring and the sweat a-flying in the hip dives of 1940s darktown, as the pumping piano, engine motor guitar, and slap-dash drums keep the jittery bounce coming underneath the sweet harmonies. Though most will head for the famous tunes from 18-23 years later, it is the 1947-1952 Big Three sessions that prove the most interesting historically, a sound more lost to modern ears than the traditional blues that proceeds it. Either way, Dixon shows why he's a beloved musical hero to musicians and scholarly fans.
© Jack Rabid /TiVo
À propos
- 1 disque(s) - 16 piste(s)
- Durée totale : 00:58:47
- Artistes principaux : Willie Dixon
- Compositeur : Various Composers
- Label : Columbia - Legacy
- Genre : Blues/Country/Folk Blues
Originally Released 1947, 1949, 1951, 1970, 1990, (P) 1998 Sony Music Entertainment Inc.
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