Recording date: 1958 Release date: 1980 Label: Flyright (UK) Catalogue #: FLY 567 Length: 11 minutes of Prime Sonny Boy Available: No

TRACK LIST Steady Rollin' Man Take Your Hand Out Of My Pocket Row Your Boat (take 1) * Row Your Boat (take 2) * * Featuring Charles Clark on vocals.

MUSICIANS Harold Burrage (piano) Charles Clark (vocals) Willie Dixon (bass) Louis Myers (guitar) Otis Rush (guitar) Billie Stepney (drums)

NOTES In 1958 Sonny Boy was hired to play harmonica on a Charles Clark session for Eli Toscana's Cobra label. The two takes of "Row Your Boat" included on this album were unreleased in deference to a third, as were the two Sonny Boy songs, which were thought to have been recorded as a "warm-up" at the start of the session and were among the very small number of studio recordings made by Sonny Boy outside Chess during this period. There is some speculation that a fifth track, Arbee Stidham's "When I Find My Baby", also featured Sonny Boy on harp, together with Walter Horton. These tracks subsequently appeared on Chicago Blues Harmonicas, released by Paula Records in 1991 (PCD-7). Many thanks to William E. Donoghue, a.k.a. "'Fessor Mojo", of Seattle, Washington, for providing the album cover and other details. [ HOME | HARP | LINKS | PHOTOS | RECORDS | SONGS ] © 1998 Sonny Boy's Lonesome Cabin