I am the blues
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| Studio album by Willie Dixon | ||||
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Publication |
1970 |
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1970 |
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| Label (s) | Columbia | |||
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LP, CD |
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Chicago blues |
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Title (number) |
9 |
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running time |
43 min 21 sec |
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Abner Spector; Reissue: Lawrence Cohn |
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I Am the Blues is a Chicago blues album by Willie Dixon released on Columbia in 1970 .
General
Calling an album I Am the Blues may sound immodest, but in this case it's certainly not an exaggeration. Willie Dixon is one of the musicians who formed the Chicago blues. He was the main songwriter and producer of the Chicago blue , especially in the years he worked at Chess Records . Some of the classic titles in the genre came from his pen. On this album, Dixon collected nine of his songs from the 1950s and 1960s and re-recorded them with a studio band of great Chicago blues musicians such as Walter Horton .
The album was reissued in a digitally edited version on CD in 2008, and there have been some re-releases earlier. The reissue is part of the "Legacy Roots n 'Blues" series.
Track list
Page 1:
- Back Door Man (Dixon) - 6:12
- I Can't Quit You, Baby (Dixon) - 6:44
- The Seventh Son (Dixon) - 4:18
- Spoonful (Dixon) - 4:58
Page 2:
- I Ain't Superstitious (Dixon) - 4:07
- You Shook Me (Dixon, Lenoir ) - 4:18
- I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man (Dixon) - 4:52
- The Little Red Rooster ( Burnett , Dixon) - 3:40
- The Same Thing (Dixon) - 4:40
Original interpreters
- Howlin 'Wolf : Back Door Man (1961), Spoonful (1960), I Ain't Superstitious , The Little Red Rooster (1961)
- Muddy Waters : You Shook Me (1962), (I'm Your) Hoochie Coochie Man (1954), The Same Thing (1964)
- Willie Mabon : The Seventh Son (1955)
- Otis Rush : I Can't Quit You, Baby (1956)
Criticism
- Bruce Eder, AMG: "[...] none of the performances here are likely to make you forget the hits by Howlin 'Wolf, Muddy Waters, and others." (None of the shows here make you forget the hits from Howlin 'Wolf, Muddy Waters, and the rest.)
- Jazz Times: “[T] he LP has an air of relaxed informality about it, thanks to the way it showcases Dixon reinterpreting a selection of what had, by that time, become self-penned blues standards…” (The LP has a touch of looseness, thanks to the way Willie Dixon interprets selections that have become blues standards.)
Web links
- Willie Dixon - I Am the Blues at Discogs (English)