YEAR
1994
INDUCTED BY
Chuck Berry
CATEGORY
Early Influences
The poet laureate of the blues.
Willie Dixon was a consummate bluesman and a key architect of the Chicago blues. He worked with such icons as Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf.
Willie Dixon
"Wang Dang Doodle"
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Mary Katherine Aldin
There never was anybody quite like Willie Dixon.
The first thing you saw when you met him was that huge grin atop the larger-than-life body; his enormous personal warmth, combined with an inexhaustible fund of street-smart music business wisdom and a tireless devotion to promoting awareness of the blues, won him friends and admirers everywhere he went.
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