and that attendees have stated that the only recordings took place the following night. Sonny Boy Williamson backed by the Yardbirds: "Take It Easy Baby" (version 1) "Do the Weston" (version 1) December 8, 1963 at the Crawdaddy Club, Richmond The Yardbirds (without Williamson): "Smokestack Lightning" "Let It Rock" "Honey in Your Hips" "I Wish You Would" "You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover" "Who Do You Love?" Williamson (solo): "Baby Don't Worry" "I Don't Care No More" Williamson backed by the Yardbirds: "Bye Bye Bird" "Mister Downchild" "The River Rhine" "23 Hours Too Long" "A Lost Care" "Pontiac Blues" "Take It Easy Baby" (version 2) "Out on the Water Coast" "Western Arizona" "Do the Weston" (version 2) February 28, 1964 at the Birmingham Town Hall Williamson backed by the Yardbirds: "Slow Walk" (only the last minute of the performance survivesit has the same instrumental backing as "The River Rhine") "Highway 49" "Pontiac Blues" "My Little Cabin" Williamson (solo): "Bye Bye Bird" Releases Over two years after it was recorded, Sonny Boy Williamson & the Yardbirds was first released in the UK by Fontana Records on January 7, 1966. With a somewhat different running order, it was released in the US a month later by Mercury Records on February 7, 1966. The album coincided with a string of successful singles by the Yardbirds, that led music critic Richie Unterberger to label it "an exploitative album". Although Williamson's photo and name were prominently displayed on the album cover, a more recent photo of the Yardbirds with Jeff Beck (who replaced Clapton in March 1965) in the foreground was used. In Germany, the album was released by Star-Club Records, that had a connection to Lippmann and Rau. Critical reception In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Unterberger gave the album three out of five stars. He notes that Sonny Boy Williamson sings well and that the album should be seen as a Williamson release "in the manner of the sides the Beatles cut in Hamburg supporting Tony Sheridan." He describes the Yardbirds' and Clapton's playing as "extremely green" and "tentative". The album did not appear on the record charts in the UK or US. David French, in his biography of Yardbirds' singer Keith Relf, had a more negative view of the Yardbirds' performance: Track listing Original Fontana album The songwriter credits are taken from the 1966 Fontana release, which indicates that all