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Article: Willie Dixon // The muse of the blues
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 2, 1989
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RICHARD HARRINGTON
WASHINGTON, D.C. Willie Dixon is the blues.
That's not the only reason he's titled his autobiography, due
out in late summer, I Am the Blues. Just as Chuck Berry's songs are
cornerstones of rock 'n' roll's foundation, so are Dixon's for
contemporary blues and, truth be told, for 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 ...