William Strauss, well known as Billy Blue, is an excellent singer, good song writer and amazing harp player with a fluent classic big fat tone he has got from his deeply admired Big Walter Horton and Little Walter Born in Long Island, New York in 1986, Billy Blue travelled to Boston Massachusetts where he settled down The album is a great Chicago blues exercise along thirteen tracks, three Little Walter’s covers, one Muddy Waters’, Howlin’ Wolf, Walter Horton’s and Albert King’s cover and six Billy’s own songs Billy Boy has the support of excellent musicians who give him the best background to make his performing shine as a very high level You will also find some good guest musicians, as Sax Gordon Beadle on tenor sax and horn arrangements, or Dave Maxwell on keyboards or Doug James on baritone sax If you love timeless classic Chicago blues, this is your cd, do not hesitate