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Willie Dixon

One of the cornerstones of blues and rock and roll history, Willie Dixon's songs inspired Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones and Jimi Hendrix and continue to evoke the spirit ingrained in classic American music. Discovering the blues while working on prison farms in Mississippi in the 1930s, he sang in gospel quartets and began putting his own rhymes to the music he heard on the radio. Moving to Chicago, he became an Illinois Golden Gloves heavyweight boxing champion and played stand-up bass in jazz groups, but was imprisoned during WWII for conscientious objection. It...