Sound Check Music Blog

Johnny Winter and Derek Trucks‘ performance of Bob Dylan‘s “Highway 61 Revisited” @ Crossroads 2009 explains several things: MORE >

Rory Gallagher, an Irishman and a genius, was a man who had a gift like none other. MORE >

“How I wish you could help us Dr. King” is sung in the chorus of Ben Harper‘s “Like a King,” a song inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.   MORE >

Merry Christmas from the King of the Blues, B.B. King. MORE >

Modern blues has taken on a life of its own in the last 5-10 years and is making a new wave of blues relevant across the globe.

Two dudes. One objective. Zero complaints. MORE >

No one, I mean no one, can tell it like it is any better than The Godfather of Soul, James Brown. MORE >