Condition: Used
Willie Dixon - I Am The Blues
Label: Columbia
Catalog#: CS 9987
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Record: VG+ VG++ a few light scuffs ( listen)
Cover: VG+ ringwear, cornerwear
Country: US
Released: 1970
Genre: Blues
Style: Chicago Blues
Tracklist
A1 Back Door Man
A2 I Can't Quit You Baby
A3 The Seventh Son
A4 Spoonful
B1 I Ain't Superstitious
B2 You Shook Me
B3 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
B4 The Little Red Rooster
B5 The Same Thing
Credits
Other [Liner Notes] – Pete Welding
Producer – Abner Spector
Written-by [Music & Lyrics] – Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon is the man who changed the style of the blues. As a songwriter and producer, the man was a genius. If you wanted a hit song, you went to Willie Dixon. Played it like he said play it, and sing it like he said sing it, and you damn near always had a hit. Willie Dixon taught bass players how to rock n roll. Listen to him on Chuck Berrys Chess recordings of Rock and Roll Music, and Reelin and Rockin. He took big band music and Mississippi blues and melded them into something new, opening the door for Motown and others to walk in and take it even further
From a composition standpoint alone Willie Dixon deserves to rank with the greats. In fact, this album here is worth it for jus' ONE song: 'I Can't Quit You, Baby'. That joint got me OPEN. Jus' listen to that wail he lets loose at the start 'fore the music's even kicked in an' tell me his voice didn't have every bit the power that the more well-known Delta and Chicago blues artists had. I mean this stuff is raw, down-and-dirty BLOOD music; hard-drivin' blues, soft blues, barroom brawl blues, ya jus' can't lose. This the only album'a his that I own, but is' enough for me to tell y'all without a shadow of a doubt in my mind that Willie Dixon was the MAN plain an' simple. C'mon now. Don't even get me started on 'Spoonful' or 'Back Door Man'. The latter in particular will pump more testosterone through your speakers an' out into your body n' soul than all the gangsta rappers out there could COMBINED.
Willie Dixon - I Am The Blues
Willie Dixon - Seventh Son
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