There were Blues Bassist before Willie Dixon.
Willie's impact was huge.
Ransom Knowling, and Big Crawford, were two other upright blues bassist.
Dave Myers, was one of the first to record with a Fender bass for blues.
Jerome Arnold, Rollow Radford, Jack Myers, were early electric blues players.
Even though it's the 1970's Keith Ferguson, of the Fab, T-Birds,
was big in bringing back that Texas blues style.
He taught everyone how to dress, and look cool.
History of Blues Bass. 
