In 1996, Chicago blues style singer and guitar player Johnny Burgin performed his first shows in Japan Osamu Sato, who at that time was the owner of a small record store in Tokyo, did the promotion of that first small tour and introduced Burgin to a number of Japanese blues musicians Since then on Johnny Burgin has come back to Japan several times, meeting some more excellent blues musicians there and has also got in touch with different Japanese blues musicians who settled in Chicago In this album Burgin has joined a good bunch of Japanese musicians with the aim to pay homage to these excellent and unknown musicians who perform the blues with the same commitment and devotion that Afroamerican musicians would do Besides showing an unbelievable professionalism and a remarkable technique, according to Johnny’s own words, what has impressed him most about working with all these Japanese musicians, has been their attitude both on rehearsals and on stage, but also their humility and willingness to put aside their personal egos and work hard to get a compact teamed sound Johnny Burgin is on guitar and vocals in five songs, the rest includes thirteen Japanese musicians distributed along eleven excellent Chicago south side blues Totally amazing and genuine!