on March 6, 2013. Dixon died of kidney failure in Orange County, California, in July 2006, at the age of 77, having suffered from cancer. A public memorial service was held in Grace Chapel, at the Inglewood Park Cemetery. Discography Chart singles LP releases Live in Sweden (Great Dame 001), 1975 Opportunity Blues (Route 66 KIX-1), 1976 (compilation of recordings from 1948 to 1961) Rockin' This Joint Tonite: Ace Holder / Kid Thomas / Floyd Dixon Featuring Johnny Guitar Watson (JSP 1002), 1978 Houston Jump (Route 66 KIX-11), 1979 (compilation of recordings from 1947 to 1960) Empty Stocking Blues (Route 66 KIX-27), 1985 (compilation of recordings from 1947 to 1953) CD releases Wake Up and Live! (Alligator 4841), 1996 Mr. Magnificent Hits Again (HMO 2450), 1999 Fine! Fine! Thing! (Highjohn 1739), 2005 Time Brings About a Change...A Floyd Dixon Celebration (Highjohn 5206), 2006 CD compilations Marshall Texas Is My Home (Specialty 7011), 1991; also issued on Ace CHD-361, 1993 Floyd Dixon: His Complete Aladdin Recordings, 2-CD set (Capitol-EMI 36293), 1996 The Cocktail Combos: Nat King Cole / Charles Brown / Floyd Dixon, 3-CD set (Capitol-EMI 52042), 1997 Cow Town Blues: The Seminal 1948–1950 Modern Recordings (Ace CHD-740), 2000 Floyd Dixon: Hey Bartender! His Very Best 1949–1959 (Jasmine JASMCD-3065), 2016 The Floyd Dixon Singles Collection 1949–1962, 3-CD set (Acrobat ACTRCD-9074), 2018 See also List of blues musicians List of jump blues musicians List of people from Marshall, Texas List of stage names List of West Coast blues musicians West Coast blues References External links Floyd Dixon biography 1929 births 2006 deaths American blues singers American blues pianists American male pianists People from Marshall, Texas Texas blues musicians Imperial Records artists Modern Records artists Kent Records artists Specialty Records artists Deaths from kidney failure West Coast blues musicians 20th-century American pianists 20th-century American singers 20th-century American male musicians