Willie Dixon (born July 1, 1915, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.-died Jan. 29, 1992,… Read Full Bio ↴Willie Dixon (born July 1, 1915, Vicksburg, Miss., U.S.-died Jan. 29, 1992, Burbank, Calif.) was a U.S. musician who influenced the emergence of electric blues and rock music. In 1936 Dixon moved from his native Mississippi to Chicago, won an Illinois Golden Gloves boxing championship, and began selling his songs. He played double bass in several bands before joining Chess Records. His lively compositions, which he sold for as little as $30, included “Little Red Rooster,” “You Shook Me,” and “Back Door Man”; many were later recorded by Muddy Waters, Elvis Presley, and the Rolling Stones. Dixon toured widely throughout the U.S. and Europe.

extensive subsequent covers, include:

"29 Ways" – Marc Cohn, Willie Dixon, The Blues Band
"300 Pounds Of Joy" – Howlin' Wolf, Tom Jones & Jools Holland
"After Five Long Years" – Willie Dixon
"As Long as I Have You" – Led Zeppelin
"Back Door Man"[9] – Howlin' Wolf, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir
"Big Boss Man" – Jimmy Reed, Elvis Presley, The Animals, The Grateful Dead
"Bring It on Home" – Sonny Boy Williamson II, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin, Johnny Thunders
"Built for Comfort" – Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO
"Crazy For My Baby" – Little Walter, Charlie Musselwhite, Willie Dixon
"Crazy Love" – Buddy Guy
"Crazy Mixed Up World" – Little Walter
"Close to You" – Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors
"Dead Presidents" – Little Walter, The J. Geils Band
"Diddy Wah Diddy" – Bo Diddley, Captain Beefheart, The Blues Band
"Do Me Right" – Lowell Fulson
"Do the Do" – Howlin' Wolf
"Don't Go No Farther" – Muddy Waters
"Don't Tell Me Nothin´" – Willie Dixon – used in the movie The Color of Money
"Down in the Bottom" – Howlin' Wolf, Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings
"Earthquake and Hurricane" – Willie Dixon
"Eternity" – Grateful Dead
"Everybody Needs Something" – Little Walter
"Everything But You" – Jimmy Witherspoon
"Everything's Got a Time" – Willie Dixon
"Evil" – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus, The Faces, Steve Miller, Koko Taylor
"Flamin' Mamie" – Willie Dixon
"Help Me" – Sonny Boy Williamson II
"Gone Daddy Gone" - the Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano incorporated elements of "I Just Want To Make Love To You" into his track; the former was later covered by Gnarls Barkley
"Grave Digger Blues" – Willie Dixon
"Groanin' the Blues" – Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton
"Hidden Charms" – Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray
"Hoochie Coochie Man"[6] – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Shadows of Knight, Eric Burdon, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Chuck Berry, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Manfred Mann
"Howlin' For My Baby" – Howlin' Wolf, George Thorogood
"I Ain't Superstitious" – Howlin' Wolf, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, The Jeff Beck Group, Chris Spedding
"I Can't Quit You Baby" – Little Milton, Otis Rush, Willie Dixon, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Dread Zeppelin, Nine Below Zero
"I Can't Understand" – Los Lobos (co-written with Cesar Rojas)
"I Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Willie Dixon
"If the Sea Was Whiskey" – Chris Thile
"I Got What It Takes" – Koko Taylor
"I Just Want To Make Love To You"[6] – Muddy Waters, The Animals, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, Shadows of Knight, Mungo Jerry, Grateful Dead, Foghat, The Rolling Stones, Etta James, Van Morrison, Paul Rodgers, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, April Wine, Robben Ford, Meat Puppets, Cold Blood
"I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" – Muddy Waters, Willie Nelson
"I'm Ready"[6] – Muddy Waters, Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, Eric Burdon, George Thorogood, Albert King
"Insane Asylum" – Koko Taylor, Kathy McDonald and Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras, Oxbow feat. Marianne Faithful
"I Don't Play" – Robben Ford
"I Got My Brand on You" – Muddy Waters
"It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" – Styx
"I Want To Be Loved" – Muddy Waters, The Rolling Stones
"Let Me Love You Baby" – Buddy Guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B. B. King
"Little Baby" – Howlin' Wolf, The Rolling Stones
"Little Red Rooster"[6] – Howlin' Wolf, Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
"Love, Life & Money" – Johnny Winter
"Mellow Down Easy" – Little Walter & His Jukes, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top, Jimmy Reed, Holly Golightly
"Million Dollar Baby" – Dizzy Gillespie
"My Babe"[6] – Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, Othar Turner & The Rising Star Fire and Drum Band
"My Baby's Sweeter" – Little Walter, Fleetwood Mac
"My Captain" – Muddy Waters
"My John the Conqueror Root" – Muddy Waters
"Nervous" – Willie Dixon
"Oh Baby" – Little Walter
"One More Chance With You" – Little Walter
"Pain In My Heart" – Willie Dixon, The Rolling Stones, Otis Redding, Grateful Dead
"Pie in the Sky" – Willie Dixon
"Pretty Thing" – Bo Diddley, Pretty Things, Canned Heat
"Seventh Son" – Willie Mabon, Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry
"Same Thing" – The Band
"Sin And City" – Buddy Guy
"Shake For Me" – Stevie Ray Vaughan
"Sit and Cry (The Blues)" – Buddy Guy (co-written with Buddy Guy)
"Spoonful"[6] – Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, The Who, Etta James Salty Dog
"Study War No More" – Willie Dixon
"The Same Thing" – Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley, Marc Ford, Grateful Dead
"The Seventh Son" – Willie Dixon
"Study No More" – Willie Dixon
"Third Degree" – Eddie Boyd, Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton, Leslie West
"Tollin' Bells" – Lowell Fulson, Savoy Brown Blues Band, Robert Cray
"Too Late" – Little Milton, Little Walter
"Too Many Cooks" – Buddy Guy, Robert Cray, Mick Jagger
"Violent Love" – Otis Rush, The Big Three, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood
"Walkin' The Blues" – Willie Dixon, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, John Kay
"Wang Dang Doodle"[6] – Koko Taylor, Howlin' Wolf, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, Box Tops, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters, The Blues Band, Widespread Panic
"Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" – Willie Dixon, Widespread Panic
"When My Left Eye Jumps" – Buddy Guy
"When The Lights Go Out" – Jimmy Witherspoon, Kim Wilson
"Who" – Little Walter
"Wigglin' Worm" – Willie Dixon
"You Can't Judge A Book By Looking At Its Cover" – Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Cactus, The Yardbirds, Beat Farmers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Tim Hardin, The Merseybeats, Elliott Murphy, Long John Baldry, The Monkees, Eric Clapton, Roy Buchanan.
"You Don't Love Me" – Booker T. & the M.G.s, Al Kooper and Stephen Stills
"You Know My Love" – Otis Rush, Gary Moore
"You'll Be Mine" – Howlin' Wolf, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. Feelgood
"You Need Love" – Muddy Waters, Mick Clark Band
"Whole Lotta Love" – Led Zeppelin. Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" was appropriated, without credit, from Dixon's "You Need Love". Although the main guitar riff was composed by Jimmy Page himself, Robert Plant based the lyrics on Dixon's song. Dixon and his music publisher received credit and royalties, after a 1985 lawsuit was settled out of court.
"You Need Loving" recorded by The Small Faces in 1965, is another uncredited loose version of the song
"You Shook Me"[9] – Otis Rush, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin
"Young Fashioned Ways" – Muddy Waters
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Violent Love
Willie Dixon Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Violent Love' by these artists:

Dr Feelgood I want to make violent love To you by the moon…
Dr. Feelgood (otis rush) I want to make violent love To you by the…
dr. feelgood/Dr Feelgood I want to make violent love To you by the moon…
dr. feelgood/Dr.Feelgood I want to make violent love To you by the moon…
Dr. John I want to make violent love To you by the moon…
Gabriel Avrett She said how have you been I've been keeping up Where have…
Keepsake One night of violent love. Tonight I relived the one, your…
Munk Baby, you look so good, I knew you would. Please, don't go…
Munk Feat. Clara Cometti Violent (violent) Violent (violent) love I know why I love …

Oingo Boingo Baby, you look so good, I knew you would. Please,…
Otis Rush I want to make violent love To you by the moon…
Skankin' Pickle I wanna make violent love To you by the moon above I…
Skankin`Pickle I wanna make violent love To you by the moon above I…
Skankin’ Pickle I wanna make violent love To you by the moon above I…
Ted Nugent We're sorry but the artist has decided not to disclose…
The Matches Baby, you look so good, I knew you would. Please,…
The Matches & Zebrahead (Baby, you look so good,) (I knew you would.) (Please, don't…
Willie Wisely I want to make violent love To you by the moon…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Willie Dixon:

01 I Just Want to Make Love to You I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
29 Ways I got twentieth nine ways just to make it to…
Back Door Man I am, a back door man I am, a back door…
Big Three Boogie Big three Boogie Boy Boogie for me Boogie for me Big th…
Blues You Can't Loose Some they march while some stand still Some they die while…
Bring It On Home Baby, baby I'm gonna bring it on home to you I done…
Built For Comfort Some folk built like this, some folk built like that But…
Built for Comfort [live] Some folks are built like this Some folks are built like…
Could I Would I Oh, sometimes I could cry Woman I could just lay down…
Crazy for My Baby I'm crazy for my baby I'm crazy for my baby I'm crazy…
Dead Presidents Them dead presidents Them dead presidents Well I ain't broke…
Diddy Wah Diddy Before you accuse me Take a look at yourself Before you accu…
Do Me Right How come you do me like you do do do? How…
Don't Let That Music Die Rev it up, step it up, keep the tempo high Don't…
Don't You Tell Nobody And don't you tell, nobody And don't you tell, nobody Don'…

Don`t You Tell Nobody And don't you tell, nobody And don't you tell, nobody Don't …
Earthquake Hurricane hurricane A mighty earthquake and a hurricane The …
Easy Baby Easy baby, hm, easy baby Easy baby, won't you love…
Evil If you're a long way from home Can't sleep at night Grab…
Good Understanding Now, when you see two women Runnin' hand in hand And neith…
Got You On My Mind I've got you on my mind, I'm feeling kind of…
Have A Good Time Fish like Peter Pray like Paul Dumb as they come That's all,…
Hidden Charms Her lips are sweet, her legs are big Her looks can…
Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my momma, before I was born You…
I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man I ain't gonna be your monkey man no more I ain't…
I Ain't Superstitions Well, I ain't superstitious, black cat just crossed my trail…
I Can Well, I can't quit you, baby But I got to put…
I Don't Trust Nobody I DON′T TRUST NOBODY The old folks told me long time…
I Got a Razor Who me? Man, you know I ain't never Lost no fight I'm w…
I Just Wanna Make Love to You I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
I Love the Life I Live See you watching me like a hawk I don't mind the…
I'm Ready I'm ready, ready as anybody can be I'm ready, ready…
I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my momma, before I was born You…
If the Sea Was Whiskey If the sea was whiskey and I was a diving…
Im Ready I'm ready, ready as anybody can be I'm ready, ready…
Im Your Hoochie Coochie Man Gypsy woman told my momma, before I was born You…
Insane Asylum I went out to the insane asylum And I found my…
It's You Baby Well, I can't quit you, baby But I got to put…
Little Red Rooster I'm a little red rooster, Too lazy to crow for day I'm…
Mellow Down Easy You jump, jump here You jump, jump there You jump, jump, jum…
Money Tree Blues My baby she's got a money tree My baby she's got…
Move Me Yeah, shake me, baby Like a leaf on a willow tree Yeah,…
Muddy Waters / I Just Want To Make Love To You I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
My Babe My baby don't stand no cheatin', my babe Oh yeah she…
My Baby Don Hardest finds, sweet like wine Cool like a pool But I'm glad…
My Love Will Never Die You've done me wrong for a long, long time And all…
Nervous When my b-b-baby calls me d-d-daddy And she c-c-call me rea…
Pain in My Heart This pain in my heart, sometimes it's true It makes me…
Pie In the Sky= Hey you better hear what I say You better have your…
Pretty Thing You pretty thing Let me buy you a wedding ring Let me…
Same Thing Why do men go crazy When a woman wears her dress…
Seventh Son Well now everybody cryin' 'bout the seventh son But in the…
Signifying Monkey You call yourself the jungle king You call yourself the jun…
Sit And Cry Oh, I've got no one to have fun with Since my…
Sittin' And Cryin' The Blues Whoa, there's no one To have fun with Since my baby's love…
Sittin` and Cryin` the Blues (sax & instrumental) Whoa, there's no one To have fun with …
Spoonful It could be a spoonful of diamond Could be a spoonful…
Study War No More Wont that be one mighty day, when we hear world…
Sweet Black Angel I've got a sweet black angel, I likes the way…
Tell Me Darling Spoken: All my life ya been doing me wrong Now, I…
Tell That Woman I went up the levee to pack some sacks And I…
That's All I Want Baby Give me a little bit a money And a few fine…
That's My Baby Hardest finds, sweet like wine Cool like a pool But I'm gl…
The Little Red Rooster I'm a little red rooster, Too lazy to crow for day I'm…
The Same Thing Why do men go crazy When a woman wears her dress…
The Seventh Son Well, now everybody cryin' 'bout the seventh son But in the…
There Hundred Pounds Of Joy Well, all you girls think the days are gone You don't…
Third Degree Got me accused of peeping, I can't see a thing Got…
This Pain in My Heart This pain in my heart, sometimes it′s true It makes me…
Three Hundred Pounds of Joy Well, all you girls think the days are gone You don't…
Walkin' The Blues Man slow down We'll get there take your time don't walk…
Walking Blues Man slow down We'll get there take your time don't walk…
Wang Dang Doodle Tell automatic slim Tell razor totin' jim Tell butcher knife…
Weak Brain Narrow Mind If you got a weak brain and a narrow mind The…
What Happened to My Blues What happened to my blues I used to sing long time…
When I Make Love I don't want you to be no slave I don't want…
Wigglin' Worm Let's do the wigglin' worm Let's do the wigglin' worm…
Yo Need Love You've got yearnin' and I got burnin' Baby, you look so,…
You Can't Judge A Book By It's Cover You can't judge an apple by looking at a tree You…
You Need Love You've got yearnin' and I got burnin' Baby, you look so,…
You Shook Me You know you shook me, you shook me all night…
Young Fashioned Ways I maybe getting old But I got young fashioned ways I maybe…
Youth to You You know I want you to Wash my clothes I got to…

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