One year after the release of the slicker and funkier Breaking Out, Buddy Guy and his band entered Soto Sound Studio in Chicago and recorded one of the most remarkable blues albums of the 1980s.

[1] Longtime drummer Ray "Killer" Allison was back again, and there were two new members in Buddy's band: guitarist Doug Williams (a member of Phil Guy's band), and bassist Mike Morrison (who had played with Junior Wells and Willie Dixon).

The 10-track version was released on a remastered CD by JSP in 1994 with an alternate cover.

[3] AllMusic gave the album four out of five stars and in the review by Chris Nickson, he commented:[4] This is Buddy Guy playing and feeling the blues, pure and simple, without any sense of compromise – and it's all the better for it, putting much of the rest of his catalog into perspective.

All three guitarists (Buddy, Phil Guy & Doug Williams) played solos on tracks 9 & 10.