Willie Mabon

VA - Chess Blues Piano Greats [Eddie Boyd, Lafaette Leake, Willie Mabon, Otis Spann] (1997) Music

Posted by thingska at Sept. 5, 2010

The extraordinary success of Chess Records was founded upon the groundbreaking guitar-charged tracks laid down by bluesmen Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Lockwood Jr., Sonny Boy Williamson, and Buddy Guy, plus rockers Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, with the piano playing a supporting role in their ensembles. But this comprehensive two-CD offering reminds us of the many 88-key blues classics Chess released as well. Popular piano men Eddie Boyd and Willie Mabon are featured here with studio stalwarts Otis Spann and Lafayette Leake.

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Willie Mabon - Willie Mabon Sings Chicago Blues (2014) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Sept. 22, 2014

Willie Mabon - Willie Mabon Sings Chicago Blues (2014)
Chicago Blues | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 00:44:08 | 103 MB
Label: Wnts | Release Year: 2014

The sly, insinuating vocals and chunky piano style of Willie Mabon won the heart of many an R&B fan during the early '50s. His salty Chess waxings "I Don't Know," "I'm Mad," and "Poison Ivy" established the pianist as a genuine Chicago blues force, but he faded as an R&B hitmaker at the dawn of rock & roll. Mabon was already well-grounded in blues tradition from his Memphis upbringing when he hit Chicago in 1942. Schooled in jazz as well as blues, Mabon found the latter his ticket to stardom. His first sides were a 1949 78 for Apollo as Big Willie and some 1950 outings for Aristocrat and Chess with guitarist Earl Dranes as the Blues Rockers.

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Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 44. - Willie Mabon: The Seventh Son (1993) Music

Posted by ttolnai at Aug. 23, 2010

Charly Blues Masterworks Vol. 44. - Willie Mabon: The Seventh Son (1993)
Blues | Mp3 320 Kbps | 103,75 MB

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Willie Dixon - I Am the Blues (1970) [MFSL] Music

Posted by Designol at July 3, 2023

I Am the Blues is the sixth studio Chicago blues album released in 1970 by the well-known bluesman Willie Dixon. The album features songs written by Dixon and originally performed by other artists for Chess Records (Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Willie Mabon).

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Hubert Sumlin, Willie Dixon, Sunnyland Slim, Clifton James - Blues Anytime! (1965) [Reissue 1998] Music

Posted by gribovar at Feb. 1, 2024

Hubert Sumlin - Blues Anytime! (1965) [Reissue 1998]
EAC Rip | FLAC (tracks+.cue+log) - 363 MB | Covers - 11 MB
Genre: Blues, Chicago Blues | RAR 3% Rec. | Label: L+R Records (CDLR 72010)

A remarkable 1964 session produced by Horst Lippmann behind the Iron Curtain in East Germany that found Sumlin trying for the first time on record to sing. He played both electric and acoustic axe on the historic date, sharing the singing with more experienced hands Willie Dixon and Sunnyland Slim (Clifton James is on drums). All three Chicago legends acquit themselves well.

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Willie Dixon - Giant Of The Blues (2008) Music

Posted by TmanHome at Jan. 16, 2016

Willie Dixon - Giant Of The Blues (2008)
Blues | MP3 320 kbps CBR | 80 min | 369 MB
Label: Music Avenue | Rel: 2008

When Willie Dixon left his native Mississippi and traveled north to Chicago, he almost single-handedly dragged the blues with him into the modern era, giving the country blues a hard, new sheen with his deft songwriting, sturdy bass playing, and his considerable talents as a producer and arranger. This two-disc, 47-track set catches Dixon wearing all of his hats, with the first disc featuring him in the studio and in concert (including several live tracks with Johnny Winter) and the second spotlighting his bass playing and production work with the likes of Robert Nighthawk, Eddie Boyd, Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Lowell Fulson, Bo Diddley, Willie Mabon, and Howlin' Wolf. What emerges is a well-rounded portrait and introduction to one of the major architects of the modern blues sound.

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Willie Dixon - The Chess Box (1988) Repost Music

Posted by v3122 at Nov. 22, 2018

This was the most unusual, and probably the most difficult to assemble of MCA's Chess Box series, mostly because of the unusual nature of Willie Dixon's contribution to Chess Records. To be sure, Dixon rates a place in the history of the label right alongside that of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, but his role was more subtle than that of a performer (indeed, two of the half-dozen recordings here that feature Dixon as a singer were previously unreleased)…

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Willie Dixon - The Chess Box (1988) Music

Posted by uff at May 12, 2014

This was the most unusual, and probably the most difficult to assemble of MCA's Chess Box series, mostly because of the unusual nature of Willie Dixon's contribution to Chess Records. To be sure, Dixon rates a place in the history of the label right alongside that of Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter, but his role was more subtle than that of a performer (indeed, two of the half-dozen recordings here that feature Dixon as a singer were previously unreleased). So he is all over this two-CD set, as a songwriter, producer, and bassist, and occasionally as a singer as well, but the unifying element are the Dixon songs, and he is the only blues songwriter to be honored by a major label with a retrospective of this type.

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Willie Dixon - Walkin' The Blues: Leader & Songwriter (2017) Music

Posted by Pisulik at Jan. 2, 2018

Willie Dixon - Walkin' The Blues: Leader & Songwriter (2017)
Chicago Blues | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | Artworks | 02:27:29 | 346 MB
Label: Soul Jam Records

A towering figure of the history and evolution of Chicago blues, the legendary Willie Dixon was indisputably the pre-eminent blues songwriter of his era, credited with writing more than 500 songs by the end of his life. In addition to his recording career as a leader, he produced, arranged and played bass on dates by such important figures as Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Sonny Boy Williamson, and others. In no small way, Dixon served as a crucial link between the blues and rock & roll.

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The Montreux Blues Festival - 1973 (2006) Music

Posted by mfrwiz at July 4, 2009

The Montreux Blues Festival - 1973 (2006)
Loseless (Flac Individual Files + Cue + Log + Audiochecker Log): 394 Mb | EAC Secure Mode Rip | Mp3 (CBR 320 kbps): 176 Mb | HQ Scans
Artist/s: Various Artists - Recording year: 1973 - CD Release Year: 2006 - Label: Maison De Blues - Barclay's Masters/Universal Music France - Number Catalogue/UPC Code: 983 212-6
Blues

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