"The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding." - Willie Dixon

"Willie Dixon may well be the single most influencial artist in modern blues. Certainly, in light of his prodigous activities and on behalf of that magnificent, impassioned, urgent and powerful music to which he has contributed so significantly over the years, he must be considered one of the major figures in postwar blues. His position as the foremost modern blues composer would in itself be enough to secure him in this status; yet the full extent of his involement in the Chicago blues goes far beyond his songwriting activities. He's been responsible for many hit recordings by such blues stawarts os Muddy Waters, Howlin 'Wolf, Chuck Berry, Little Walter, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Rogers, Sonny Boy Williamson, Magic Sam, Koko Taylor, and a host of others." - from the liner notes of the album "I Am The Blues"

For more information on Willie Dixon, check out his biography at the  Rock and Roll Hall of Fame website.