Download e-book for iPad: Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues (African American by Mitsutoshi Inaba

By Mitsutoshi Inaba

ISBN-10: 0810869934

ISBN-13: 9780810869936

ISBN-10: 1442245638

ISBN-13: 9781442245631

One of the greats of blues song, Willie Dixon was once a recording artist whose skills prolonged past that of bass participant. A singer, songwriter, arranger, and manufacturer, Dixon's paintings motivated numerous artists around the tune spectrum. In Willie Dixon: Preacher of the Blues, Mitsutoshi Inaba examines Dixon's occupation, from his earliest recordings with the 5 Breezes via his significant paintings with Chess files and Cobra Records.

Focusing on Dixon's paintings at the Chicago blues from the Forties to the early Nineteen Seventies, this publication info the advance of Dixon's songwriting ideas from his early expert occupation to his mature interval and compares the compositions he supplied for various artists. This quantity additionally explores Dixon's philosophy of songwriting and its social, ancient, and cultural history. this is often the 1st research to debate his compositions in an African American cultural context, drawing upon interviews along with his relatives and previous band individuals. This quantity additionally features a specified record of Dixon's consultation paintings, within which his compositions are chronologically organized.

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