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Brooks & Dunn, Reba top new releases

Friday, April 5, 2019 – Musical heavyweights Brooks & Dunn and Reba McEntire, who have played Vegas together, both are out with new releases today, leading a heavy release schedule.

Brooks & Dunn go back in time and forward with "Reboot." The disc pairs them with artists ranging from Kacey Musgraves to Brothers Osborne to Kane Brown to Midland on new versions of B&D hits. Dann Huff produced the release, which tends to have a modern sheen.

McEntire has put out what she said is the most traditional country album of her career, "Stronger Than the Truth." McEntire puts a few outright honky tonkers on the release, while also adding several female-centric songs, something she has long been known for.

Ace acoustic guitarist Molly Tuttle is out with "When You're Ready" on Compass. This marks her debut after putting out a successful EP, "Rise." Tuttle, 26, became the first female to win the IBMA Guitarist of the Year honor, which she has won twice. Tuttle started out in a family bluegrass band in California before going to Berklee College of Music in Boston. She moved to Nashville four years ago.

The Infamous Stringdusters are out with "Rise Sun. a 13-song release produced by the quintet and Billy Hume. The band wrote all of the songs.

Amanda Cooke is dropping "After All This Time. Cook, a Florida native, plays traditional and modern bluegrass. The disc is the follow up to 2017's "Deep Water," also on Mountain Fever.


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CD review - Reboot Brooks and Dunn return with the duo's first studio album in a dozen years. Sort of. That's because they revisit a dozen of their hits (leaving a bunch behind) with contemporary country singers. "Reboot" is a cross between a tribute album and a redo, and overwhelmingly, the idea works. The general idea is that the guest artist will trade lines with Brooks or Dunn. One could surmise that Brooks & Dunn did this kind of album to introduce these chestnuts in an attempt to ...
CD review - #1s ... and then some Brooks & Dunn are the most popular duo in country history racking up lots of hits and awards, but they amicably called it a career with plans to go their separate ways after a farewell 2010 tour. This two-CD set contains 30 songs, but aside from 2 new songs, there's not much reason to buy this set. The quality certainly is there as 20 of the songs reached the top of the chart. The new songs - both were released as singles - were Honky Tonk Stomp, featuring ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, and Indian Summer. ...
CD review - Cowboy Town If your idea of a cowboy is Cowboy Troy and the guys from Big & Rich, then sure, this new Brooks & Dunn album is named appropriately. For it's the city-bred hat crowd that the majority of these songs are aimed at or at least the women that married them. Their last couple of albums saw them gain some critical acclaim with songs like the stirring "Believe," but there's nothing that immediately memorable here. Instead, we get the fuzzy current events theology of, "God ...


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