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greyguy asked in Entertainment & MusicMusicBlues · 1 decade ago

Willie Dixon, great blues composer?

Is anyone aware of a published or online compilation of all his songs?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There's probably not a single compilation available - he was around a long time, and wrote a lot of songs that were recorded by a lot of people. He never got paid for a lot of them, either.

    "Willie Dixon; The Chess Box Set" and "I Am The Blues" aren't complete sets of his work, but they cover quite a bit of it.

  • 1 decade ago

    Of ALL his stuff? are you mad?

    To make it more difficult, his contemporaries and he would often play on each other's tracks and record each other's tunes like Howling Wolf and Muddy Waters.

  • 1 decade ago

    Here are some of the more notable ones:

    29 Ways" – Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon, The Blues Band

    "300 Pounds Of Joy" – Howlin' Wolf

    "Back Door Man" – Howlin' Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir

    "Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, Grateful Dead

    "Bring It on Home" – Sonny Boy Williamson II (Rice Miller), Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin

    "Built for Comfort" – Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO

    "Crazy For My Baby" – Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon

    "Close to You" – Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors, Sam Lay, Rock Bottom

    "Dead Presidents" – Little Walter, J. Geils Band

    "Diddy Wah Diddy" – Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart, The Blues Band

    "Do Me Right" – Lowell Fulson

    "Do the Do" – Howlin' Wolf

    "Don't Tell Me Nothin´" – Willie Dixon – used in the movie "The Color of Money"

    "Everything But You" – Jimmy Witherspoon

    "Evil" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus, The Faces, Steve Miller

    "Hidden Charms" – Howlin' Wolf

    "Hoochie Coochie Man" РMuddy Waters, Shadows of Knight, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Moțrhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey

    "I Ain't Superstitious" – Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, Jeff Beck

    "I Can't Quit You Baby" – Little Milton, Otis Rush, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Dread Zeppelin

    "If the Sea Was Whiskey" – Chris Thile

    "I Got What It Takes" – Koko Taylor

    "I Just Want To Make Love To You" – Muddy Waters, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead, Foghat, The Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison, Paul Rodgers

    "Gone Daddy Gone" - the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano incorporated elements of "I Just Want To Make Love To You" into his track; the former was later covered by Gnarls Barkley

    "I'm Ready" – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, Low Budget Blues Band

    "Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald & Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras, Oxbow

    "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Styx

    "I Want To Be Loved" – Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones, Sean Costello

    "Let Me Love You Baby" – Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B.B. King

    "Little Red Rooster" – Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton

    "Mellow Down Easy" – Little Walter & His Jukes, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top

    "Million Dollar Baby" – Dizzy Gillespie

    "My Babe" – Little Walter, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fire and Drum Band

    "My Mind is Ramblin" – Rock Bottom

    "Nervous" – Willie Dixon

    "Pain In My Heart" – Willie Dixon

    "Pretty Thing" – Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat

    "Seventh Son" – Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry

    "Sin And City" – Buddy Guy

    "Shake For Me" – Stevie Ray Vaughn

    "Spoonful" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, Willie King & the Liberators, The Who, Etta James

    "Study War No More"

    "The Same Thing" – Muddy Waters, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley, Marc Ford

    "The Seventh Son" – Willie Dixon

    "Third Degree" – Eddie Boyd, Eric Clapton, Leslie West

    "Tollin' Bells" – Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band

    "Too Late" – Little Milton

    "Too Many Cooks" – Buddy Guy, Robert Cray

    "Violent Love" – Otis Rush, The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood

    "Walkin' The Blues" – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay

    "Wang Dang Doodle" – Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters, The Blues Band

    "Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" – Willie Dixon

    "When The Lights Go Out" – Jimmy Witherspoon, Kim Wilson

    "You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At Its Cover" – Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus, The Yardbirds, Beat Farmers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tim Hardin, The Merseybeats, Elliott Murphy, Long John Baldry, The Monkees, Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan.

    "You Know My Love" – Otis Rush

    "You'll Be Mine" – Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan

    "You Gotta Be Loved" – Muddy Waters ,, Dread Zeppelin("Whole Lotta Love", see below)

    "Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was appropriated, without credit, from Dixon's "You Gotta Be Loved". Dixon and his music publisher received credit and royalties, after a 1985 lawsuit was settled out of court. This song is also sometimes called "You Need Love".

    "You Need Loving" recorded by The Small Faces in 1965, is another uncredited loose version of the song

    "You Shook Me" – Muddy Waters, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin

    "Young Fashioned Ways" – Muddy Waters

  • 1 decade ago

    I think 'loon.....' has nailed it. Poor Willie...at least Johnny Otis didn't give him no 'hand jive'..at least I think not..

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