Browsing: Blues Heaven Foundation

“I met Willie on many occasions — the first of which is when I cold-called him out of the Chicago phone book and asked him to come to my high school radio station.” Cary Baker

Marie Dixon talks about why her husband, Willie Dixon, started the Blues Heaven Foundation, and how it helps musicians.

“Willie felt the younger they were, the easier it would be for them to learn how to play blues music, and go forward if that’s what they chose to do.”

Some long standing private feelings between the family of past entity of Chess Records and the owners of what has become Blues Heaven Foundation have boiled into the public light.