Brooks & Dunn - Rock My World (Little Country Girl) (Live from CMA Fest 2025) ft. Marcus King

 


From the 2025 CMA Music Festival in Nashville, Tennessee, here is Brooks & Dunn (Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn), featuring Marcus King on lead guitar and vocals, Ronnie Dunn on rhythm guitar and vocals, and Leon "Kix" Brooks on blues harp harmonica and vocals, along with an ace backing band and horn section performing Brooks & Dunn's tune "Rock My World (Little Country Girl), with a great vocal performance from Kix, Ronnie, and Marcus, and Marcus's blues and soul inspired guitar solo.  This is a crossroads of American roots music, country, blues, and rhythm & blues and soul music, all rolled into one.  

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