Another marvellous work belonging to BDBlues Collection, published by Nocturne, cleverly managed by Bruno Théol This double cd is devoted to Sonny Boy Williamson II and includes a comic strip written by Jean Songe and illustrated by Jean Christophe Chauzy Aleck Ford, aka Alex Miller, Rice Miller and especially Sonny Boy Williamson, was born in Glendora, Mississippi His birth date is not exactly known, some musical researchers say he was born in 1890 but other ones place it in 1899 and even in 1891ç, but he certainly died in Helena, Arkansas in May, the 25th 1965 He was really the more strange original quarrelsome person you can imagine Gifted with a natural talent and a special personality, he always showed off proudly about his passport, where his name was Williamson, Sonny Boy instead his real birth name Although he boasted he was the one and only Sonny Boy Williamson, this was not true, because John Lee formerly got the same nickname, and he even recorded some years before a good bunch of songs under the same name During his young days Alex Miller almost was a homeless, wandering from place to place, which made him know and become friend of many Delta bluesmen, such as Robert Johnson, Robert Jr Lockwood, Robert Nighthawk, Elmore James or Howlin’ Wolf This double cd includes forty four priceless excellent songs that reflect the magic and mastery of this powerful fruitful outstanding bluesman The tracks included cover his best years, between 1951 and 1957 All the recordings were done in Jackson, Mississippi and Chicago with such amazing backing musicians like piano players Willie Love and Otis Spann, Willie Dixon on bass, great drummer Fred Below or guitar masters like BB King, Joe Willie Wilkins, Elmore James, Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Luther Tucker or Robert Jr Lockwood, among other fifties great blues names A double cd with not a single bad track on it that deserves a place in any blues record collection