"According to
Muddy Waters, 'Every time I go into Chess, [they] put some un-blues players with me […] If you change my sound, then you gonna change the whole man.' By 1969 Marshall Chess had to do something financially viable that would reinstate the real King of the Blues. ... When Mike Bloomfield visited Marshall Chess’ home, an idea began to form, 'It was Mike Bloomfield’s idea. He was at my house and said he wanted to do a thing with Muddy. He had talked about it with Paul Butterfield, too. Both of them had talked with [producer] Norman Dayron. Since Mike and Paul were coming to Chicago for a charity concert we decided that maybe we could cut an album then, too, and the whole thing just built up.' So, Waters, Otis Spann (piano), Bloomfield (guitar), Butterfield (harmonica), Donald “Duck” Dunn (bass guitar), Sam Lay (drums), and Paul Asbell (rhythm guitar) stepped into the studio to begin recording on April 21, 1969. ..."
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