He recorded it in August 1968 at the Vulcan Gas Company, an Austin music club, with his original trio of Tommy Shannon on bass guitar and John "Red" Turner on drums.

[2] The album features a mix of Winter originals and older blues songs, including the standards "Rollin' and Tumblin'", "Help Me", and "Forty-Four".

[2] Local Austin, Texas-based Sonobeat Records issued the album with a plain white cover in late 1968.

[4] The Imperial edition, with a new cover, reached number 40 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

But before the ink had dried on Johnny’s Columbia contract, Josey sold the LP to United Artists.