The live performance of Chicago Plays The Stones features Ronnie Baker Brooks, Billy Branch — a third headliner to be named for the Reading Blues Fest — and a band with Chicago veteran musicians. It will be available in 2018 only and feature:
1) Music by the titans of Chicago blues such as Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf to show how The Rolling Stones were inspired and influenced by Chicago blues
2) Songs by The Stones from the album Chicago Plays The Stones that have been rearranged in Chicago blues style
3) Ronnie Baker Brooks and Billy Branch sharing with the audience their connection to The Stones and blues and their own personal experience and influence from The Stones
4) The finale will be a mix of Stones and Muddy Waters

The highly entertaining show will illustrate the indelible and lasting influence Chicago blues has had on the “world’s greatest rock and roll band” who have directly impacted popular culture as we know it today. [www.readingbluesfest.com]