The album represented a return to the
blues music with which Fleetwood first found success, as a founding member of
Fleetwood Mac in the late 1960s. In the sleeve notes, he dedicated the album to his original Fleetwood Mac bandmates,
Peter Green,
John McVie and
Jeremy Spencer, and to the legacy of Fleetwood Mac. Around half the tracks on the album were Peter Green compositions. Fleetwood did not seek to copy the original Fleetwood Mac, rather to "pay it tribute by creating something both historically respectful yet new and invigorated." To this end, he recruited former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Rick Vito, who had played on the
Behind the Mask album in 1990, together with two relative unknowns, Lenny Castellanos and Mark Johnstone, to form the Mick Fleetwood Blues Band. The band subsequently undertook a tour of the
United States, and later in 2008, Europe, including an appearance at the
Notodden Blues Festival in
Norway. The album was accompanied by a short bonus CD of studio recordings, including new versions of Green's "
Albatross" and "The Supernatural", recorded in
Nashville and
Hawaii. ==Track listing==