DOWN & OUT BLUESRecorded in Chicago, Illinois between 1955 and 1958. Originally issued on the Chess Records' Checker imprint, Down and Out Blues was the first long player ever issued on Sonny Boy Williamson; and indeed, it was the only album of his work that Williamson ever saw issued in his lifetime. As with most Chess Records albums of the 1950s and early '60s, it was really more a collection of singles, B sides, and related sessions than a unified body of work,