All tracks recorded in Chicago during six sessions:
A1, A3: August 12, 1955
B6: January 24, 1956
A4, A5: July or August, 1956
A2, B1: January or February, 1957
A6, B4, B5: October or November, 1957
B2, B3: March 27, 1958
℗ 1987
©1959, 1987 MCA Records, Inc.
On spine: MCA-Chess Records
Title on spine, front cover: Sonny Boy Williamson Sings Down And Out Blues
Back cover credits: Rice Miller ("Sonny Boy Williamson") and McKinley Morganfield ("Muddy Waters")
Mastered at Artisan, Los Angeles.