Brooks & Dunn 20-yr innings over
August 11th, 2009 - 7:24 pm ICT by IBNSAug 11 (IBNS) Best-selling country duo Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have agreed to “call it a day” following 20 years of music-making together, stunning several music industry observers.
The duo posted a message on their website Monday: 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.
Brooks & Dunn will release a greatest-hits album on Sept. 8 and tour one last time in 2010. The duo’s many hits include “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “My Maria,” “Red Dirt Road” and “Cowgirls Don’t Cry” with Reba McEntire. The men’s label, Arista Nashville, said the group has sold more than 30 million albums.
Brooks, 54, and Dunn, 56, were struggling solo artists when Arista’s Tim DuBois urged them to join forces in 1990. Together they’ve scored 23 No. 1 hits. They’ve recorded 10 studio albums, the latest 2007’s “Cowboy Town.”
Brian Philips, president of Country Music Television, said: They’ve been to the mountaintop and they’ve accomplished everything that two human beings joined together musically, can do in a career. They’ve had every kind of hit. Literally, they’ve explored every musical texture and tempo and style and flavor.
Brooks and Dunn also won a couple of Grammy awards and dozens of other music related honors.
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