Browsing: Willie Dixon

“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

“Jimi told me the reason he started setting his guitar on fire was because he couldn’t do the back flips like I did.” – Guitar Shorty

Kenny “Blues Boss” Wayne’s ‘Blues From Chicago to Paris: A Tribute to Memphis Slim and Willie Dixon’ is available March 4th, 2022 via Stony Plain Records.

Willie once said, “The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits. It’s better keeping the roots alive, because it means better fruits from now on…”

From writing and recording to publishing and beyond. Tomiko Dixon is following in her grandfather’s footsteps.

“…that’s why I wrote so many songs because I been writing about the true facts of life that exists today, and yesterday and for what I hope will be tomorrow a better future.” – Willie Dixon

“I don’t want to play it like it’s already been played.”

“My goal is to let the younger generation really see what the blues has been and what it can be. To keep the music popular and create a resurgence, the blues needs the young people.” – Keith Dixon Nelson

Yet, here are the Rolling Stones, telling us “School is in session, and here is how it’s done.” Not with malice. Not with a sense of being smug, or full of themselves. No: It is done with a sense of knowing.

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