Sonny Boy Williamson was, in more ways then one, the ultimate Blues legend. On the day of his death in 1965, he had lived long enough to have played with Robert Johnson at the birth of his career and with Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page at the conclusion of it. In between, he drank a lot of booze, wandered around the country, had a successful radio show for 15 years, reaped great success on European tours, and basically wrote, played and sang some of the greatest Blues ever stamped into black flat plastic phonograph records. In 1963 he came over to Europe and started performing in the young British beat club circuit, touring and recording with the Yardbirds, the Animals, and with Jimmy Page and Brian Auger. With the white Blues-Rock bands playing full blast behind him, he'd pull out every juke-joint trick in the book, and then some, and drive the audience into frenzy. Disc 1, tracks 1-11 were recorded at the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond with The Yardbirds featuring Eric Clapton, February 1964, tracks 12-22 were recorded with The Animals featuring Eric Burdon at the Club-A-Go-Go, Newcastle, December 1963. All tracks on disc 2 were recorded in the studio with Jimmy Page and Brian Auger, January 1965.