List of songs written by Willie Dixon
# List of songs written by Willie Dixon

Willie Dixon was a Chicago blues artist, perhaps best known for his songwriting. He wrote or co-wrote over 500 songs and his work has been recorded by some of the best-known blues musicians of his era, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. Later, some of his songs were popularized by rock groups, such as the Rolling Stones, Cream, and Led Zeppelin. Musicians in several genres have interpreted Dixon's songs.

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List of songs with title, first recorded by, year, and subsequently recorded by :

| Title | First recorded by | Year | Subsequently recorded by |
| - | - | - | - |
| "29 Ways" | Willie Dixon | 1956 | Koko Taylor, Marc Cohn, The Blues Band |
| "As Long as I Have You" | Little Walter | 1960 | The Ford Blues Band, John P. Hammond, George Thorogood |
| "Back Door Man" | Howlin' Wolf | 1960 | The Doors, Grateful Dead, Shadows of Knight, Bob Weir, The Blues Project, The Blues Band |
| "The Big Boat" a.k.a. "Somebody Tell that Woman" | Big Three Trio | 1955 | Peter, Paul and Mary |
| "Bring It On Home" | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 1963 | Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin, Johnny Thunders, Widespread Panic, Hawkwind, Canned Heat |
| "Built for Comfort" | Willie Dixon | 1959 | Howlin' Wolf, Canned Heat, UFO, Juicy Lucy, Dana Gillespie |
| "Close to You" | Muddy Waters | 1958 | Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Doors |
| "Crazy for My Baby" | Willie Dixon | 1955 | Little Walter, Colin James, Charlie Musselwhite |
| "Crazy Love" | Buddy Guy | 1967 | |
| "Crazy Mixed Up World" | Little Walter | 1959 | James Harman Band |
| "Dead Presidents" | Little Walter | 1963 | The J. Geils Band |
| "Diddy Wah Diddy" | Bo Diddley | 1955 | Captain Beefheart, The Remains, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Blues Band |
| "Do Me Right" | Lowell Fulson | 1955 | Willie Dixon |
| "Do the Do" | Howlin' Wolf | 1962 | Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs |
| "Don't Go No Further" | Muddy Waters | 1956 | The Doors, B.B. King, John P. Hammond |
| "Don't You Tell Me Nothin'" | Willie Dixon | 1986 | used in the film The Color of Money |
| "Down in the Bottom" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings, John P. Hammond, Siegel–Schwall Band, Barry McGuire |
| "Eternity" | Grateful Dead | 1992 | |
| "Everything but You" | Jimmy Witherspoon | 1959 | |
| "Evil" | Howlin' Wolf | 1954 | Canned Heat, Captain Beefheart, Monster Magnet, Luther Allison, Derek and the Dominos, Gary Moore, Cactus, The Faces, Steve Miller, Koko Taylor, Jeff Healey, Tom Jones, Greta Van Fleet |
| "Fishin' in My Pond" | Lee Jackson | 1957 | Hip Linkchain, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Dixon |
| "Groanin' the Blues" | Otis Rush | 1957 | Eric Clapton |
| "Help Me" | Sonny Boy Williamson II | 1963 | Ten Years After, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Junior Wells, Luther Allison, Johnny Winter, James Cotton |
| "Hidden Charms" | Charles Clark | 1958 | Howlin' Wolf, Link Wray, Elvis Costello |
| "Hoochie Coochie Man" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | Willie Dixon, Shadows of Knight, Eric Burdon, The Nashville Teens, Dion, The Allman Brothers Band, Alexis Korner, Steppenwolf, Chuck Berry, Motörhead, Eric Clapton, John P. Hammond, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Healey, Manfred Mann, New York Dolls, Dave Van Ronk, Phish |
| "Howlin' for My Baby" | Howlin' Wolf | 1959 | George Thorogood, Paul Filipowicz |
| "I Ain't Superstitious" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | Jeff Beck Group, Grateful Dead, Megadeth, Chris Spedding, The White Stripes, The Yardbirds, Howlin' Wolf |
| "I Can't Quit You Baby" | Otis Rush | 1956 | Little Milton, Willie Dixon, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Led Zeppelin, Gary Moore, Dread Zeppelin, Nine Below Zero |
| "I Can't Understand" (co-written with Cesar Rojas) | Los Lobos | 1990 | |
| "I Don't Play" | Little Walter | 1960 | Robben Ford |
| "I Got My Brand on You" | Muddy Waters | 1960 | Alexis Korner |
| "I Got What It Takes" | Koko Taylor | 1964 | |
| "I Just Want to Make Love to You" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | Willie Dixon, 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, The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, The Righteous Brothers, Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke |
| "I Love the Life I Live, I Live the Life I Love" | Muddy Waters | 1956 | Willie Nelson, John P. Hammond, Mose Allison |
| "I Want to Be Loved" | Muddy Waters | 1955 | The Rolling Stones |
| "I'm a Natural Born Lover" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | |
| "I'm Ready" | Muddy Waters | 1954 | Humble Pie, Buddy Guy, Aerosmith, Long John Baldry, Eric Burdon, George Thorogood, Albert King, John P. Hammond, Carey Bell, The Blues Band, Luther Johnson |
| "If the Sea Was Whiskey" | Big Three Trio | 1947 | Chris Thile and the How to Grow a Band |
| "Insane Asylum" | Koko Taylor | 1968 | Kathi McDonald & Sly Stone, Diamanda Galás, Asylum Street Spankers, The Detroit Cobras, Oxbow & Marianne Faithfull |
| "It Don't Make Sense (You Can't Make Peace)" | Willie Dixon | 1984 | Styx |
| "Let Me Love You Baby" | Buddy Guy | 1961 | Koko Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Mike Farris |
| "Little Baby" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | The Rolling Stones, The Blues Project, Ant Trip Ceremony |
| "Little Red Rooster" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | Sam Cooke, The Rolling Stones, Grateful Dead, The Doors, Luther Allison, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Big Mama Thornton, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Bo Diddley, Otis Rush |
| "Mellow Down Easy" | Little Walter | 1954 | Cactus, Paul Butterfield, The Black Crowes, Carey Bell, ZZ Top, Jimmy Reed, Holly Golightly, John P. Hammond |
| "Mighty Earthquake and Hurricane" a.k.a. "Earthquake and Hurricane" | Willie Dixon | 1978 | Tina Turner |
| "Move Me" | Willie Dixon | 1959 | |
| "My Babe" | Little Walter | 1955 | Sonny Boy Williamson, Elvis Presley, The Everly Brothers, Lonnie Mack, Spencer Davis Group, John P. Hammond, Bo Diddley, Muddy Waters, The Remains, Othar Turner, James Cotton, Bo Diddley, Memphis Slim, Ike & Tina Turner, Ricky Nelson, Gerry and the Pacemakers |
| "My Baby's Sweeter" | Little Walter | 1959 | |
| "My Love Will Never Die" | Big Three Trio | 1952 | Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Robben Ford |
| "Nervous" | Willie Dixon | 1959 | André van Duin (as a parody, in Dutch), Ian Whitcomb |
| "Oh Baby" | Little Walter | 1954 | |
| "Pain in My Heart" | Willie Dixon | 1955 | |
| "Pretty Thing" | Bo Diddley | 1956 | Pretty Things, Canned Heat |
| "The Same Thing" | Muddy Waters | 1964 | Willie Dixon, George Thorogood, The Allman Brothers Band, Sue Foley, Marc Ford, Grateful Dead, The Band, Louisiana Red, Eddie C. Campbell, Treat Her Right |
| "The Seventh Son" | Willie Mabon | 1956 | Mose Allison, Bill Haley, Johnny Rivers, Sting, Climax Blues Band, Long John Baldry, Remo Four, Georgie Fame, John P. Hammond |
| "Shake for Me" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | Stevie Ray Vaughan, John P. Hammond |
| "Sittin' and Cryin' the Blues" a.k.a. "Sit and Cry (The Blues)" | Buddy Guy | 1958 | Willie Dixon |
| "Spider in My Stew" | Buster Benton | 1974 | Magic Slim |
| "Spoonful" | Howlin' Wolf | 1960 | Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, Shadows of Knight, Dion, Paul Butterfield, Cream, Canned Heat, Grateful Dead, Ten Years After, The Who, Etta James, Delbert McClinton, Allman Joys, Gil Evans |
| "Study War No More" | Willie Dixon | 1989 | |
| "Talk to Me Baby" a.k.a. "I Can't Hold Out" | Elmore James | 1960 | Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton |
| "Third Degree" | Eddie Boyd | 1953 | Willie Dixon, Eric Clapton, Leslie West, Johnny Winter |
| "Three Hundred Pounds of Joy" | Howlin' Wolf | 1963 | Tom Jones & Jools Holland, Blues Brothers, Dana Gillespie |
| "Tollin' Bells" | Lowell Fulson | 1956 | Savoy Brown, Robert Cray, Paul Butterfield |
| "Too Late" | Little Walter | 1953 | Little Milton |
| "Too Many Cooks" | Jesse Fortune | 1961 | Buddy Guy, Robert Cray |
| "Violent Love" | Big Three Trio | 1951 | Otis Rush, Oingo Boingo, Dr. Feelgood, Skankin' Pickle |
| "Wang Dang Doodle" | Howlin' Wolf | 1960 | Koko Taylor, Grateful Dead, Savoy Brown, Box Tops, PJ Harvey, Rufus Thomas, The Pointer Sisters, The Blues Band, Widespread Panic, Warren Zevon, Dave Edmunds, Z.Z. Hill |
| "Weak Brain, Narrow Mind" | Willie Dixon | 1964 | Great White, Widespread Panic |
| "What in the World You Goin' to Do" | John Littlejohn | 1968 | |
| "When My Left Eye Jumps" | Buddy Guy | 1967 | |
| "When the Lights Go Out" | Jimmy Witherspoon | 1954 | Kim Wilson |
| "Whole Lotta Love" (co-credit with Led Zeppelin) | Led Zeppelin | 1969 | Tina Turner, Tori Amos, Ben Harper, Prince, Carlos Santana, Mary J. Blige |
| "You Can't Judge a Book by the Cover" | Bo Diddley | 1962 | 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, Tom Rush, The Rolling Stones, John P. Hammond, Dion DiMucci, Delbert McClinton |
| "You Know My Love" | Otis Rush | 1960 | Gary Moore, Anson Funderburgh |
| "You Need Love" | Muddy Waters | 1962 | Candye Kane, Savoy Brown, The Small Faces |
| "You Shook Me" | Muddy Waters | 1962 | Willie Dixon, Jeff Beck Group, Led Zeppelin, Dread Zeppelin |
| "You'll Be Mine" | Howlin' Wolf | 1961 | Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dr. Feelgood, John P. Hammond |
| "Young Fashioned Ways" | Muddy Waters | 1955 | Koko Taylor |

Footnotes

* ↑ Led Zeppelin copied portions of Dixon's "Bring It On Home" for the intro and outro of their song of the same name on Led Zeppelin II. A lawsuit on behalf of Dixon was brought against Jimmy Page, et al. and was settled out of court. Subsequent releases of the group's "Bring It On Home" listed Dixon as the songwriter, with their original portions re-titled "Bring It On Back" and credited to the group members. ISWC T-914.040.241-1.
* ↑ Elements of Dixon's "You Need Love" were copied by Led Zeppelin for their popular "Whole Lotta Love". A lawsuit was settled out of court and resulted in Dixon's name being added along with the group members on subsequent releases of "Whole Lotta Love". IWSC T-070.202.109-7.

Citations

* 1 2 Shadwick 2007, p. 277.
* 1 2 Dixon & Snowden 1989, p. 247.
* 1 2 3 Eder 1996, p. 72.
* ↑ Herzhaft 1992, pp. 94–95.

Specific references

* Dixon, Willie; Snowden, Don (1989). I Am the Blues. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80415-8.
* Eder, Bruce (1996). "Willie Dixon". In Erlewine, Michael (ed.). All music guide to the blues : The experts' guide to the best blues recordings. All Music Guide to the Blues. San Francisco: Miller Freeman Books. ISBN 0-87930-424-3.
* Herzhaft, Gerard (1992). "Willie Dixon". Encyclopedia of the Blues. Fayetteville, Arkansas: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-252-8.
* Shadwick, Keith (2007). "Willie Dixon". The Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues. London: Quantum Publishing. ISBN 978-0-681-08644-9.

General references

* "Willie Dixon – Composer credits". AllMusic. Retrieved December 30, 2015.
* "Willie Dixon, Creator-id: 00008321027". ISWC Network. Retrieved August 27, 2016.
