Another song courtesy of WXRT's Saturday Morning Flashback. In the middle of April they were Flashing Back to 1980. The year we got both Caddy Shack and Blues Brothers. (Yes, it has been stuck in drafts that long. There are things older than this!)
In 1978 Chicago Mayor Michael A. Bilandic decided to hold a music festival on Navy Pier. It would eventually prove too small, and in 1983 it would move to Soldier Field, but it was the year that ChicagoFest was born. In 1980 93XRT (Chicago's Finest Rock) decided to record and publish some of the blues artists that played the festival. The album included songs from Koko Taylor, Muddy Waters, Mighty Joe Young, and Lonnie Brooks.
This is "Sweet Home Chicago" by Lonnie Brooks, recorded live at ChicagoFest in 1980. It is from the album Blues Deluxe.
Sadly ChicagoFest ended in 1983, but the music festival would be essentially absorbed by Taste of Chciago, which except for the COVID years, has been running since 1980.
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