Willie Henderson (born August 9, 1941, in Pensacola, Florida) is an American R&B and soul musician and producer.
He gigged with local artists like Otis Rush, Syl Johnson, Alvin Cash, and Harold Burrage while in his twenties.
In Chicago Brunswick Records employed four R&B arrangers: Willie Henderson, Tom Washington, James Mack and Sonny Sanders.
[citation needed] Henderson played on many of these records and also did some production work himself, especially for Tyrone Davis, with whom he had a string of R&B and Hot 100 hits in the late 1960s and early 1970s on Brunswick subsidiary, Dakar.
[3] For the week ending February 7, 1970, Willie Henderson & the Soul Explosions' "Funky Chicken (Pt.
[16] Henderson produced funk band Magnum Force's album "Share My Love" with Carl Davis.
As of 2016, he was still booking gigs and was in the horn section of the Otis Rush tribute at the 2016 Chicago Blues Festival.