Blues musician Willie Dixon once said, “The Blues are the roots, and other musics are the fruits. It’s better to keep the ...

Willie Dixon was born on July 1, 1915, in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Vicksburg was a lively town located on the Mississippi River midway between New Orleans and Memphis. As a youth, Dixon heard a variety ...

”Willie`s up there just floatin` around, enjoyin` this,” said Ald. Dorothy Tillman (3rd) as Chicago began a two-day farewell Tuesday to blues legend Willie Dixon. Dixon would have no do… ...

Willie Dixon, who wrote blues standards and produced many classic blues albums, died of heart failure yesterday at St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, Calif. He was 76 and lived in southern ...

VCV was created with the intention of being a “Song Of The Day” feature but realized I ...

Written by Willie Dixon. Dixon wrote a number of songs for Buddy Guy throughout the 1960s, including his 1961 hit, “Let Me Love You Baby.” ...

To back up, Tomiko Dixon is the child of Johnnie Dixon, seventh child born to Willie Dixon and her blood grandmother, Elnora Franklin, with whom Willie Dixon lived in a common-law marriage before ...

What remains to be written about Willie Dixon? He will most likely never be known much for his bass playing, but rather because he was arguably the preeminent blues lyricist of the post-war era, an ...