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...The five covers on this New Orleans-flavoured set range from a slinky reading of the torch-song ballad “You Don’t Know What Love Is” to a raucous re-make of Willie Dixon’s “Wang Dang Doodle”....
...Recorded live in three days and produced without overdubs, Blue & Lonesome finds them bashing out no-nonsense versions of songs by the likes of Howlin’ Wolf and Willie Dixon....
...But the mood lifted – first when Gambian musician Juldeh Camara, on the ritti, a one-stringed fiddle, turned a cover of Willie Dixon’s “Spoonful” into a mesmerising African jam; then during the Zeppelin...
...Willie Watt, chief executive of Martin Currie, believes recruitment issues are increasingly a thing of the past....
...It’s a passion that dates from the first time he heard a blues song as a boy; he thinks it might have been by Willie Dixon, playing on the car radio when he was eight or nine....
...Dixon’s “I Got What You Need” has the lithe chug of John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers....
...For the first time in years, Sir Stuart Rose made a Chelsea appearance not having to worry about Marks and Spencer’s results the following day, while International Airlines Group boss Willie Walsh fretted...
...ChicagoChicago Blues Festival The postwar Chicago blues scene gave rise to many of the genre’s biggest names, including Willie Dixon, Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy; continuing their legacy at this year’s Chicago...
...Up to this point, they were strictly a covers band, of American rock’n’roll, blues and R&B numbers, originally recorded by the likes of The Coasters, Willie Dixon and Bo Diddley....
...But this is as good as it gets – a fact clearly acknowledged by Willie Walsh yesterday. From skyrocketing fuel costs to a slowing economy, the downside of the cycle is already hitting airlines....
...There’s a relief: Willie Walsh of British Airways has “ruled out” an independent bid for Iberia....
...The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity and the Renewal of Civilization By Thomas Homer-Dixon Souvenir £15, 448 pages FT bookshop price: £12 The Canadian political scientist Thomas Homer-Dixon takes...
...Dixon”: a sculpted paper circle layered in black paintstick suspended on a white paper ground, splattered with a Pollock-like skein of black marks....
...CSFB said Dixons was particularly exposed to a slow-down in consumer spending “given the big-ticket and discretionary nature of much of its range”....
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