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Title: I Am the Blues: The Willie Dixon Story by Willie Dixon, Den Snowden, Elizabeth M. Snowden, Don Snowden ISBN: 0-306-80415-8 Publisher: Da Capo Press Pub. Date: October, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: B-O-R-I-N-G
Comment: This book may be the story of Willie Dixon's music, but it's certainly not Willie's story. I kept waiting to find out more about Willie, the man, but my questions were never answered.
Rating: 5
Summary: Very Much Agree w/ Review Below....and...
Comment: ...also, it is important for whomever is into music recording and songwriting and performing to read this. Talk about being forefront in rhythm and blues and rock & roll and not getting your dues? Dixon, although he did not get all the monetary benefits and fame of a brilliant career, still comes up on top because of his uplifting attitude and strength of character exhibited in his great book. Read it, today.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the Greatest American Songwriters.
Comment: Willie Dixon was a big man, not only physically. He was colorful, confident, ambitious and intelligent. And in addition to all that, he had a remarkable talent for writing songs. He wrote such Blues classics as "I'm Ready","Spoonful", "Hoochie Coochie Man", and "I Just Want to Make Love to You.". His contemporaries included Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson and Muddy Waters, all of whom recorded Dixon's songs.
With a title like "I Am the Blues", you can expect Dixon to talk a lot about The Blues. And he does. And there's no one better to provide a first hand account of Blues music and it's evolution from the 1940's through the 1980's. But Dixon also describes his own life in vivid detail. Love and the loss of love. Hard work and hard living. A man of principles, Dixon was arrested on stage in 1941 for evading the draft. As a struggling black man and musician, he refused to go to war for the country that he felt had done nothing for him. Later in his life, Dixon fought for the rights to his own songs, and profits he never made from many recordings of those songs.
In later years, Dixon's songs were recorded by new blues legends like Buddy Guy, and British rock artists like The Rolling Stones and Eric Clapton. Many of his songs remain Blues standards, today. But the best legacy Willie Dixon leaves behind is his human legacy. This is best reflected in the words of his own favorite self-penned song, "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace):
"You take one man's heart and make another man live
You even go to the moon and come back thrilled
Why, you can crush any country in a matter of weeks
But it don't make sense you can't make peace."
Amen to that, Mr. Dixon.
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Title: The World Don't Owe Me Nothing: The Life and Times of Delta Bluesman Honeyboy Edwards by David Honeyboy Edwards ISBN: 1556523688 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Deep Blues by Robert Palmer ISBN: 0140062238 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: May, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Chicago Blues: The City and the Music by Mike. Rowe ISBN: 0306801450 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: April, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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Title:The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1 ASIN: B0000AYL2M Publisher: Universal Music & VI Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $16.38 |
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Title: The Land Where the Blues Began by Alan Lomax ISBN: 1565847393 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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