Fleetwood Mac
Blues Jam In Chicago
Chess Ter-Mar Studios
Chicago, Illinois
January, 1969

1. Watch Out   2. Ooh Baby   3. South Indiana – (take 1)   4. South Indiana – (take 2)   5. Last Night   6. Red Hot Jam – (take 1)   7. Red Hot Jam – (take 2)   8. I'm Worried   9. I Held My Baby Last Night 10. Madison Blues 11. I Can't Hold Out 12. Bobby's Rock 13. I Need Your Love 14. Horton's Boogie Woogie 15. I Got The Blues

1. World's In A Tangle   2. Talk With You   3.  Like It This Way   4.  Someday Soon Baby   5.  Hungry Country Girl   6.  Black Jack Blues - (Bonus Track)   7.  Everyday I Have The Blues   8.  Rockin' Boogie   9.  My Baby's Gone 10.  Sugar Mama - (take 1, Bonus Track) 11.  Sugar Mama - (take 2) 12.  Homework - (Bonus Track) 13.  Honey Boy Blues 14.  I Need Your Love - (take 1, Bonus Track) 15.  Horton's Boogie Woogie (Take 2) 16.  Have A Good Time 17.  That's Wrong 18.  Rock Me Baby

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This set, recorded at Chess Record's Ter-Mar complex in Chicago, pairs Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac with some of the Windy City's blues legends including Willie Dixon, Otis Spann, Buddy Guy, and David Honeyboy Edwards. Put together on short notice, and recorded in one day, the sessions have something of a ramshackle feel, but the energy of the performances transcends any shortcomings on this date. Dixon oversaw the proceedings, and can be heard during the between-song banter giving directions and chastising Walter Shakey Horton for missing his cues. Since the Peter Green-led Fleetwood Mac was so directly influenced by Chicago blues, the session acts as a kind of stylistic homecoming for the band. Bassist John McVie and drummer Mick Fleetwood contribute driving rhythms while guitarists Danny Kirwan and Jeremy Spencer lend both rhythms and the occasional lead. Green's stunningly fluid guitar work is at the fore, as usual. But the real treat is picking out the Chess players--Otis Spann's piano on I Got the Blues, J.T. Brown's tenor sax on Elmore James's I Can't Hold Out, or Guy and Edwards, who go toe-to-toe with Green on Red Hot Jam, one of the session's indisputable highlights. Disc 2 has greater variety in the lineup than volume one, with Dixon substituting on bass for McVie on a number of tracks, along with much swapping of vocal duties. The latter move gives Disc 2 the edge over Disc 1, with Edwards singing on his own tunes (Honey Boy Blues is a highlight), and the inimitable Spann singing Someday Soon Baby and Hungry Country Girl. This is one of the finer snapshots of British blues-rock meeting its source.