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Willie Dixon - I Am the Blues.

I picked up a cheap copy of this and I'm really impressed. This is a really really well recorded blues date. Sounds like Columbia too all of its jazz recording skills and applied them to a blues album. Does anyone know if Columbia recorded any other blues like this?
grimace

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chashmal
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Well recorded yes. Sounds nice.

However IMO it is a gross caricature of his greatest work from the Chess period. In the end, I think it is a redundant cash-in for ole' Mr. Dixon. He stopped growing as an artist with the rest of his generation in the mid 60's when the blues died in the comfort of the mainstream. Being worshiped by all those white boys killed the creative spirit in that generation.

R.I.P. the blues. 1924-1965
chashmal
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Yeah Grimace, I have an ornery-ness problem! Sorry. I do that...

Jaybo I agree completely. Willie Dixon is a bona-fide blues genius. For the post-war period his lyrics, basslines, and melodies are the pinnacle of the idiom. If anyone deserves a payday guys like him (and Wolf, Muddy, Little Walter, etc) certainly have earned whatever they got. In my opinion they should have gotten much much more. In fact I think Willie Dixion should have gotten the recognition of a Gershwin or Bernstein.
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