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
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.
I agree that it's a wonderful album. I've been trying to sell my second (new) copy for awhile with no takers. Where are the blues vinyl fans hiding? I also agree that Muddy's I'm Ready is great, as are most of Taj Mahal's on Columbia. Start with the self-titled first album featuring Jesse Ed Davis & Ry Cooder.