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Article: The Muse Of the Blues;From Roots to Heavy Metal;Willie Dixon's the Source
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- The Washington Post
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- February 12, 1989
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Willie Dixon is the Blues.
That's not the only reason he's titled his forthcoming
autobiography "I Am the Blues." Just as Chuck Berry's songs are
cornerstones to the rock 'n' roll foundation, so are Dixon's to
contemporary blues and, truth be told, to heavy metal.
Willie Dixon, 73, the godfather of heavy metal?
Consider this: The British Blues Revival in the early '60s was
fueled in great part by songs Dixon had written and by acts he'd
produced for Chess Records. One of those songs was Bo Diddley's "You
Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover," but you could judge Dixon by his
covers: the Rolling Stones did "Little Red Rooster," Cream and Ten
Years After did "Spoonful," the Jeff Beck Group ...