I am the blues : the Willie Dixon story

著者

• Dixon, Willie
• Snowden, Don

書誌事項

I am the blues : the Willie Dixon story

Willie Dixon with Don Snowden

Da Capo Press, c1989

注記

"This DaCapo Press edition ... is an unabridged republication of the edition published in London in 1989, supplemented with author emendations" -- T.p. verso

Includes index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

These are just a few of Willie Dixon's contributions to blues, R&B, and rock'n'roll,songs performed by artists as varied as the Rolling Stones, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, ZZ Top, the Doors, Sonny Boy Williamson, the Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Megadeth, Eric Clapton, Let Zepplin, Tesla, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Jeff Healey. I Am the Blues captures Willie Dixon's inimitable voice and character as he tells his life story: the segregation of Visksburg Mississippi, where Dixon grew up the prison farm from which he escaped and then hoboed his way north as a teenager his equal-rights-based draft refusal in 1942 his work,as songwriter bassist, producer, and arranger,with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, and Chuck Berry which shaped the definitive Chicago blues sound of Chess Records and his legal battles to recapture the rights to his historic catalogue of songs.

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA74751761
• ISBN:
  • 0306804158
• LCCN: 90038862
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: [New York]
• ページ数/冊数: x, 264 p., [16] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 21 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : ML410.D68
  • DC20 : 781.643/092
  • DC20 : B
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Dixon, Willie, 1915-
  • LCSH : Blues musicians -- United States -- Biography