Alex Dixon (blues)

Alex was featured in the November/December 2021 issue of Living Blues, a magazine focused on blues music, which was originally founded in Chicago.

On June 15, 2015, Dixon performed as a headliner at the Chicago Blues Festival along with McCall, Sugar Blue and other members of the Dixon family as part of its Willie Dixon Centennial Tribute.

On April 28, 2013, both Willie Dixon and Alex Dixon were enshrined as members of the Chicago Blues Hall of Fame. The ceremonies were conducted at Buddy Guy's nightclub, Legends.

After Willie's death, Alex served as a deputy with the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department for seven years and graduated from Aspen University in 2009 with a degree in criminal justice/law enforcement administration. He retired from the force to resume a career in music, after an off-duty incident involving an ex-convict gang member, who shot at him two or three times without hitting his mark, and who was subsequently convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a former roommate.

He founded Dixon Landing Music—a combined recording label, publishing house and management firm—in Los Angeles in 1989 in an effort to continue his grandfather's legacy in promoting the careers of younger artists. Offices have been based in the San Francisco Bay area since his family relocated in 2012. He also assumed responsibilities as chief executive of Hoochie Coochie Music, which oversees his grandfather's extensive songwriting legacy, in 2016 following the death of his grandmother.

When Willie and Marie relocated to the Los Angeles area in 1984, their grandson moved with them. When he was age 11, Willie began indoctrinating him in the family business and continuing to indoctrinate children to the music by appearing with him at local schools, work that later resulted in Alex becoming a member of his touring band for club and festival bookings.

A past vice president of Blues Heaven Foundation, the non-profit organization Willie initiated in 1984, Alex supervised efforts to promote the music and award scholarships to younger musicians, delivering emergency assistance to older artists experiencing life crises and working in their behalf to recoup royalties for their recorded and published works.

Alex Dixon (born April 23, 1975) is an American blues musician, songwriter, producer, label owner and industry executive who is the grandson of Willie Dixon, one of the most important figures in the history of American music.

Born in Chicago, Alex was raised by his grandfather and grandmother Marie in the family's South Side home, which was the epicenter of the city's blues community from the 1950s through the early 1980s. Alex started playing piano at age six, taking lessons from several of the most important keyboard players of the era, including Leonard Caston, Willie's former partner in the Big Three Trio; Lafayette Leake, a longtime member of the Muddy Waters Band; Little Brother Montgomery, a self-taught innovator whose career began in the 1920s; and his uncle, Arthur "Butch" Dixon, who toured for years with Willie as a member of his Chicago Blues All-Stars.