Muddy Waters - Trouble No More - ChicagoFest 1981

In August of 1981, when the undisputed king of Chicago blues headlined ChicagoFest — then the Windy City’s top outdoor music festival — for two nights, his loyal subjects mobbed Navy Pier on the lakefront to hear one of the greatest innovators the idiom had ever produced. Muddy Waters led the charge in the late 1940s and early ’50s to electrify Delta blues in an urban setting. His peerless combo would include such future stars as ace guitarist J