A1 - Tell Me Baby
A2 - Southbound Train
A3 - When I Get To Thinking
A4 - Just A Dream (On My Mind)
A5 - Double Trouble
B1 - I Feel So Good
B2 - I Done Got Wise
B3 - Mopper's Blues
B4 - Lonesome Road Blues
B5 - Hey, Hey

Recorded in 1960 at Tel-Mar Studio in Chicago.

When Muddy Waters recorded this album as a tribute to Big Bill Broonzy two years after his death, he could be sure of Broonzy's approval. "Oh yeah, Muddy is a real singer of the Blues," Big Bill, that Mississippi foundation stone, was heard to say early on in Muddy Waters' career, although the sound of the man 15 years his junior could be likened to new shoots coming out of the gnarled root named the blues. Full of confidence after a "Best Of" compilation released on the Chess label in 1959 and his legendary appearance at the Newport Folk Festival, Muddy set down his own Broonzy songs. It goes almost without saying that such successful numbers as "I Feel So Good" and "Tell Me Baby" are overflowing with a ‘Chicago feeling‘ which gets right under your skin. Pulsating with the metallic heartbeat of the electric guitar and the gyrating licks which James Cotton conjures out of his harmonica, the cover title amalgamates the individual styles of two top-notch blues musicians to produce a highly emotional mixture. And let's not forget the band formed around keyboarder Otis Spann, their fellow musician of many years' standing. Just listen carefully to this small but excellent ensemble and you will certainly forget the banal term ‘rhythm group‘! "In these ten blues, Bill Broonzy's look at life is offered and his love of it; the women, the whiskey, the pride, the joy, and the friends. Just as Big Bill sang of and for his friends, long gone, so Muddy Waters sings of and for his friend, just gone down that lonesome road." - Studs Terkel, from the original liner notes.

This Pure Pleasure LP was remastered using pure analogue components only, from the original analogue studio tapes through to the cutting head, and was pressed at Pallas, Germany, using virgin vinyl.