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The first of the Chess artists' "London Albums:, October 15, 2007
If you are looking for Clapton's first recorded solo it is on this album made when the Yardbirds were travelling as back-up band for blues legend Sonny Boy Williamson II (Alex "Rice" Miller). Sonny Boy also recorded with the Animals, Jimmy Page, Brian Auger and the Trinity and Chris Barber and Roland Kirk in the jazz field.
Clapton claims the that the difficult Williamson taught him to "play with feeling." At the time Brits were playing the blues but had not caught the fire behind the music.
It would be nearly a decade later before Muddy, Howlin' Wolf, Chuck Berry and other Chess and Checker artists would record with British rock stars.
Sonny Boy was always ahead of his time. He and his friend Robert Lockwood Jr. played electric blues through car radios and jukeboxes in 1938 six years before Muddy Waters owned an electric guitar.
Chicago Blues was born in the delta, not in Chicago.
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