Brooks & Dunn get original on iTunes
Monday, October 27, 2008 – Brooks & Dunn is dropping "iTunes Originals," extending iTunes' popular series of exclusive releases with not one, but audio and video entries from the best-selling duo in country music history.
Available now, the two titles mirror one another with hits, interview segments with the duo and exclusive live performances filmed on Ronnie Dunn's property in Nashville. Featuring 11 songs, each release weaves such chart-topping Brooks & Dunn favorites as Play Something Country and Brand New Man along with newly recorded, exclusive commentary from the duo and six live, full-band performances, among them the award-winning Believe,My Maria and Lost and Found, as well as an intimate, round-the-campfire rendition of their number one hit Red Dirt Road.
The video version marks only the second iTunes Originals video release and the first ever done for a country artist.
More news for Brooks & Dunn
- 01/07/25: Brooks + Dunn, Aldean join for one night only - at Fenway
- 11/25/24: Brooks leaves American Country Countdown
- 01/22/24: Brooks & Dunn Reboot again
- 08/03/23: Urban, Brooks, Murphy to join Nashville Songwriters Hall
- 04/27/23: McEntire, Brooks & Dunn release acoustic "If You See Him, If You See Her"
- 01/23/23: Brooks & Dunn REBOOTS for '23
- 02/28/22: Brooks & Dunn reboots
- 06/14/21: B&D relaunch Reboot tour
CD reviews for Brooks & Dunn
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 ...
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. ...
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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