[3] During the early 1940s, Lenoir worked with the blues artists Sonny Boy Williamson II and Elmore James in New Orleans.

He began to perform at local nightclubs, with musicians such as Memphis Minnie, Big Maceo Merriweather, and Muddy Waters, and became an important part of the city's blues scene.

[9] His band included Sunnyland Slim, piano, "Baby Face" Leroy Foster, guitar and Alfred Wallace on drums.

According to the album's liner notes, they're sitting down together, relaxed and private, talking, jiving and singing in a way that differs from a studio or club date.

[3] In 1965 and 1966, Willie Dixon recorded him playing acoustic guitar with only drummer Fred Below accompanying him which was unusual at the time for a Chicago blues session.

[3] Here, he again spoke his mind with songs like Alabama March, Vietnam Blues and (Every Child in Mississippi is) Born Dead.

[10] Lenoir died on April 29, 1967, in Urbana, Illinois, at the age 38, of injuries he had suffered in a car crash three weeks earlier.

[1] The 2003 documentary film The Soul of a Man, directed by Wim Wenders as the second installment of Martin Scorsese's series The Blues, explored Lenoir's career, together with those of Skip James and Blind Willie Johnson.