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Willie Dixon

WILLIE DIXON

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

Willie Dixon

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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Class of 1994
So he made me what I am, so far as the basics of my music.
Chuck Berry
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