WILLIE DIXON THE BIG THREE TRIO
Recorded:1946-1951
Audio CD 3 Nov 2008
Label: SPV Blue
Format: Flac
In 1946 Willie Dixon and Leonard Caston formed the Big Three Trio, named after the wartime “Big Three” of U.S. president Franklin Roosevelt, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet political leader Joseph Stalin. The group was modelled after other popular black vocal groups of the time, such as the Mills Brothers and the Ink Spots. Dixon by this time was singing and playing a regular upright bass. While Chicago blues musicians like Muddy Waters and Little Walter were playing to all-black audiences in small clubs, the Big Three Trio played large show clubs with capacities of three to five thousand.
In 1951 after several years of successful touring and recording, the Big Three Trio disbanded. Many of Dixon's compositions were never recorded by the trio, but these songs turned up later in the repertoire of the blues artists Dixon worked with in the 1950s.
1. Big 3 Boogie
2. If the Sea Was Whiskey
3. I Ain't Gonna Be Your Monkey Man
4. 88 Boogie
5. Money Tree Blues
6. Big 3 Stomp
7. Since My Baby Gone
8. Hard Notch Boogie Beat
9. No One to Love Me
10. Don't Let That Music Die
11. It's All over Now
12. Tell That Woman
13. Got You on My Mind
14. Etiquette
15. You Don't Love Me No More
16. Come Here Baby
17. O.C. Bounce
18. Cool Kind Woman
19. Juice-Head Bartender
20. What Am I to Do
21. Signifying Monk
22. Reno Blues
23. Just Can’t Let Her Be
24. I’ll Be Alright Some Day
25 After Awhile [We Gonna Drink Some Whiskey]
