Description
DESCRIPTION
2012 four CD box set. When Willie Dixon wrote his autobiography he elected to name it 'I Am the Blues'. Any other person claiming such a title would be thrown to the wolves but with Willie Dixon you just can't argue with his claim. The songs he wrote, artists he nurtured, his session work, as well as his vital role as a the general Mr. Fix-it for both Chess Records and Cobra Records, render him as not just one of the most important figures in the history of Blues but as a key component to the make-up of modern popular music in general. This four disc box set focuses on this legend with individual discs given over to Dixon as a Performer, the Session Man, the Songwriter and the Record Company Man. 100 tracks featuring Dixon along with the likes of Buddy Guy, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Junior Wells, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Otis Rush and many more. All the hallmarks are here, booklet with story, discographical information, rare photos and remastered recordings. Proper.
TracksCredits
- Disc 1 -
1 It's Just the Blues
2 Sweet Louise
3 Signifying Monkey
4 Walking the Blues
5 I Got a Razor
6 My Love Will Never Die
7 Built for Comfort
8 Minute and Hour Blues
9 No One to Love Me
10 Pain in My Heart
11 Unlucky
12 I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man
13 Swinging the Blues
14 Move Me
15 Big Three Boogie
16 Roll and Tumble
17 29 Ways
18 Violent Love
19 Just a Jitterbug
20 Beer Drinking Woman
21 Don't Let That Music Die
22 Go Easy
23 You Sure Look Good to Me
24 Crazy for My Baby
25 If the Sea Was Whiskey
- Disc 2 -
1 Ebony Rhapsody
2 Sweet Black Angel
3 How I Got Over
4 Hoodoo Man
5 Maybellene
6 Got My Mojo Working
7 Mona (I Need My Baby)
8 Tomorrow Night
9 Meet Me in Your Hometown
10 Fattening Frogs for Snakes
11 Can't This Be Mine
12 Mannish Boy
13 Be Careful What You Do (I Would Hate to See You Go)
14 'Bout the Break of Day
15 Try to Quit You Baby
16 Last Night
17 Sincerely
18 I Could Cry
19 24 Hours
20 This Train
21 Mellow Chick Swing
22 Soap and Water Blues
23 Lovey Dovey Lovey One
24 Walking By Myself
25 Johnny B. Goode
- Disc 3 -
1 I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man
2 The Seventh Son
3 My Babe
4 Spoonful
5 Sit and Cry (The Blues)
6 Hidden Charms
7 Close to You
8 Pretty Thing
9 Cha Cha Cha in Blue
10 Killer Diller
11 Do Me Right
12 I'm Ready
13 Mellow Down Easy
14 Back Door Man
15 Diddy Wah Diddy
16 I Can't Hold Out (Talk to Me Baby)
17 Fishin' in My Pond
18 Just Make Love to Me
19 Evil
20 Third Degree
21 Tollin' Bells
22 Two Headed Woman
23 When the Lights Go Out
24 Young Fashioned Ways
25 Wang Dang Doodle
- Disc 4 -
1 All Your Love (I Miss Loving)
2 Love Me with a Feeling
3 The Red Rooster
4 Have a Good Time
5 Keep on Loving Me Baby
6 Crying the Blues
7 All My Whole Life
8 Forty Four
9 When I Find My Baby
10 It Takes Time
11 It's You Baby
12 All Night Long
13 Row Your Boat
14 You Don't Treat Me Right
15 Smokestack Lightnin'
16 Sit Down Baby
17 My Life Depends on You
18 21 Days in Jail
19 Need My Baby
20 Satisfied
21 I Can't Quit You Baby
22 Little Girl
23 Irma Lee
24 My Love
25 All Your Love
