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Brooks & Dunn announce they will split

Monday, August 10, 2009 – Brooks & Dunn are breaking up. In an announcement today on the duo's web site, the group said they would release one more CD before going their separate ways. The announcement cited no particular reason, other than "it's just time."

This will end a long career in which Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks won numerous duo awards and enjoyed many number one hits.

"After 20 years of making music and riding this trail together, we have agreed as a duo that it's time call it a day," the web site said. "This ride has been everything and more than we could ever have dreamed.... We owe it all to you, the fans. If you hear rumors, don't believe them, it's just time. "

"We will release our #1's and then some" on September 8th and bid you farewell one last time in 2010, with The Last Rodeo Tour...(dates to be announced)."

Brooks & Dunn went number one with their 4 songs including Brand New Man, their very first number 1, in June 1991. It was their fourth number 1 that propelled them - "Boot Scootin' Boogie"became part of the country line dance craze in 1992 and became a country music staple.


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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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