List of songs written by Willie Dixon explained

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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First recorded by	Year	Subsequently recorded by
"29 Ways"		1956	Koko Taylor, Marc Cohn, The Blues Band
"As Long as I Have You"<	--NOT the Garnett Mimms song, covered by Led Zeppelin-->	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
"Somebody Tell that Woman"	Big Three Trio	1955	Peter, Paul and Mary
"Bring It On Home"<	--NOT the Sam Cooke song-->		1963	Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Dread Zeppelin, Johnny Thunders, Widespread Panic, Hawkwind, Canned Heat
"Built for Comfort"		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"		1955	Little Walter, Colin James, Charlie Musselwhite
"Crazy Love"		1967
"Crazy Mixed Up World"	Little Walter	1959	James Harman Band
"Dead Presidents"	Little Walter	1963	The J. Geils Band
"Diddy Wah Diddy"<	--NOT the Blind Blake song-->	Bo Diddley	1955	Captain Beefheart, The Remains, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Blues Band
"Do Me Right"		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'"		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"		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"		1957	Eric Clapton
"Help Me"		1963	Ten Years After, Charlie Musselwhite, Canned Heat, Junior Wells, Luther Allison, Johnny Winter, James Cotton
"Hidden Charms"		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"		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"		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"<	--NOT the Fats Domino or Jimmy Reed songs-->	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"		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)"		1984	Styx
"Let Me Love You Baby"		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"		1978	Tina Turner
"Move Me"		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"		1959	André van Duin (as a parody, in Dutch), Ian Whitcomb
"Oh Baby"	Little Walter	1954
"Pain in My Heart"<	--NOT the Otis Redding song-->		1955
"Pretty Thing"	Bo Diddley	1956	Pretty Things, Canned Heat
	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
		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)"		1958	Willie Dixon
"Spider in My Stew"		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"		1989
"Talk to Me Baby" a.k.a. "I Can't Hold Out"		1960	Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton
"Third Degree"		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"		1956	Savoy Brown, Robert Cray, Paul Butterfield
"Too Late"	Little Walter	1953	Little Milton
"Too Many Cooks"		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"		1964	Great White, Widespread Panic
"What in the World You Goin' to Do"		1968
"When My Left Eye Jumps"		1967
"When the Lights Go Out"		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"		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

FootnotesCitationsSpecific references

• Book: Dixon. Willie. Willie Dixon. Snowden. Don. I Am the Blues. Da Capo Press. 1989. 0-306-80415-8.
• Encyclopedia: Eder. Bruce. Erlewine. Michael. Michael Erlewine. All Music Guide to the Blues. Willie Dixon. 1996. San Francisco. Miller Freeman Books. 0-87930-424-3. registration. All music guide to the blues : The experts' guide to the best blues recordings.
• Encyclopedia: Herzhaft. Gerard. Encyclopedia of the Blues. Willie Dixon. 1992. Fayetteville, Arkansas. University of Arkansas Press. 1-55728-252-8. https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofbl00herzh .
• Encyclopedia: Shadwick. Keith. The Encyclopedia of Jazz & Blues. Willie Dixon. 2007. London. Quantum Publishing. 978-0-681-08644-9.

General references

• Web site: Willie Dixon – Composer credits. AllMusic. December 30, 2015.
• Web site: Willie Dixon, Creator-id: 00008321027. ISWC Network. August 27, 2016.