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Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I help
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you drift off one fact at a time. I'm your host,
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Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about Brooks and Done.
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This episode is a happy Birthday present for Dom and
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a special thank you for all your help on the podcast.
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Brooks and Dunn are an American country music duo consisting
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of Kicks Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, both of whom are
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vocalists and songwriters. The duo was founded in nineteen eighty
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eight through the suggestion of songwriter and record producer Tim Dubois.
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Before their formation, both members were solo recording artists, having
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each charted two UZ solo singles in the nineteen eighties.
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Kicks Brooks also released an album for Capitol Records in
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nineteen eighty nine and wrote hit singles for other artists.
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The duo signed to Arista Nashville after their formation. They
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recorded eleven studio albums, one Christmas album, and five compilation
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albums for the label. They also have released fifty singles,
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of which twenty went to number one on the Hot
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of these number one songs, my Maria a posthumous cover
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of the nineteen seventy three B. W. Stevens hit and
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Ain't Nothing About You were the top country songs of
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nineteen ninety six and two thousand one, respectively, according to
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the Billboard Year End Charts. The latter is also the
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duo's longest lasting number one single on that chart, at
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six weeks. Several of their songs have also reached the
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Billboard Hot one hundred was the number twenty five peaks
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of Ain't Nothing About You and Red Dirt Road being
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their highest there. Brooks and Dunn also won the Country
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Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year award every year
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between nineteen ninety two and two thousand six, except for
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two thousand. Brooks and Dunn won the award again in
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twenty twenty four. Two of their songs won the Grammy
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Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
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with Vocal hard Working Man in nineteen ninety four and
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My Maria in nineteen ninety six. All but two of
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the duo's studio albums are certified platinum or higher by
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the Recording Industry Association of America. Their highest certified is
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their nineteen ninety one debut album, Brand New Man, which
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is certified sextuple platinum for shipments of six million copies.
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The duo's material is known for containing influences of honky Tonk,
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mainstream country, and rock, as well as a contrast between
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their singing voices and on stage personalities, Although some of
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their music has also been criticized as formulae, their nineteen
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ninety two single Bootscoot and Boogie helped repopularize line dancing
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in the United States. Brooks and Dunn have collaborated with
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several artists, including Reba McIntyre, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crowe, mac Powell,
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Billy Gibbons, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Luke Combs. After announcing
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their retirement in August two thousand nine, they performed their
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final concert on September second, twenty ten, at the Bridgestone
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Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Both Brooks and Dunn have continued
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to record for eirest to Nashville as solo artists. Dunn
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released a self titled album in twenty eleven, which included
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the top ten country hit Bleed Red, while Brooks released
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New to This Town in September twenty twelve. The duo
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reunited in twenty fifteen for a series of concerts with
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Reba McIntyre and Life Las Vegas. In twenty nineteen, the
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duo was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
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leon Eric Kicks Brooks, the Third, was born on May twelfth,
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nineteen fifty five, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and before moving to Nashville, Tennessee,
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in nineteen seventy six, he played at various venues in Maine.
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He was also a neighbor of country singer Johnny Horton.
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Brooks worked as a songwriter in the nineteen eighties, co
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writing the number one singles I'm Only in It for
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the Love by John Conley, Modern Day Romance by the
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Nitty Gritty Dirty Band, and Who's Lonely Now by Highway
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one oh one plus the Oakridge Boys top twenty head
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He made a Rock of a Rolling Stone at Larsen's
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let Me Be the First and Keith Palmers Don't Throw
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Me in the Briar Patch. Brooks also released several singles
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through the independent Avian label, charting at number seventy three
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on Hot Country Songs in nineteen eighty three with Baby
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When your Heart Breaks Down. In nineteen eighty nine, he
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released a self titled studio album through Capitol Records. This
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album included Baby When Your Heart Breaks Down and Sacred Ground,
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which McBride and The Ride covered and took to number
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two on the country charts in nineteen ninety two. Brooks
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and Pam Tillis co wrote and sang on Tomorrow's World,
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a multi artist single released on Warner Brothers Records in
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nineteen ninety in honor of earth Day. Brooks also co
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produced and co wrote Backbone Job, a Keith Whitley outtake
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that appeared in his nineteen ninety one compilation album Kentucky Bluebird.
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Ronnie Gen Dunn was born on June first, nineteen fifty three,
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in Coleman, Texas. He played bass, guitar and local bands
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during high school, and he briefly studied theology at Hardin
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Simmons University with the intention of becoming a Baptist preacher.
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Dunn was kicked out of the school because he played
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in bars. Between nineteen eighty three and nineteen eighty four,
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he recorded for the church Hill label, taking both ITDs
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written all over Your Face and She Put the Sad
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in All his songs to number fifty nine on the
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country charts in nineteen eighty nine, says drummer Jamie Oldacre
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entered Dunn in a talent contest sponsored by Marlborough, which
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he won the grand prize in The competition included a
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recording session in Nashville, Tennessee. The producer of that session,
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Scott Hendricks, recommended Dunn's recordings to Tim Dubois, then an
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executive of Heirest in Nashville. Dubois paired Brooks and Dunn
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because he thought that they would work well together as songwriters,
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and after the two recorded a demo, he suggested that
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they form a duo. During this time span, Dunn also
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wrote boots Guten Boogie, which Asleep at the Wheel recorded
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on their nineteen ninety album Keeping Me Up Nights. Brooks
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and Dunn's first single, brand New Man, entered the Hot
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to number one. It was the title track to the
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duo's debut album, Brand New Man, which was released two
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months later. Brooks and Dunn wrote this song and several
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other cuts in collaboration with songwriter Don Cook, who co
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produced the album with Hendrix. It was also Cook's first
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credit as a producer. The next three single releases from
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Brand new Man, My Next Broken Heart, Neo Moon, and
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their own rendition of Bootscooten Boogie, all made number one
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on the Country music charts as well, making for the
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first time in country music history that a duo or
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group had sent its first four singles to the the
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top of the charts. A fifth single, Lost and Found,
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peaked at number six. Bootscoot and Boogie, which had previously
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been the B side to My Next Broken Heart, also
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made number fifty on the Billboard Hot one hundred, and
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its commercial success led to a renewal interest in line
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dancing throughout the United States. Brand New Man was certified
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platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in August
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nineteen ninety two for shipments of one million copies. By
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two thousand and two, the album had been certified sextuple
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platinum for shipments of six million. It spent more than
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one hundred and ninety weeks in the Top Country Albums charts.
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In nineteen ninety two, the duo the Duo of the
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Year award from the Country Music Association, which also nominated
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them for that year's Album of the Year and Horizon Awards.
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Brooks and Dunn won the association's Duo Award for every
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year from then on until two thousand and six, except
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for two thousand, when the award went to Montgomery Gentry.
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After the album's release, Brooks and Dunn began touring as well.
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Hard Working Man was the title of Brooks and Dunn's
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second album, which was released in nineteen ninety three. The
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title track, also its first single, peaked at number four
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on the Country music charts. The album included two number
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one singles in its third and fifth releases, she Used
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to Be Mine and its B side that Ain't No
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Where to Go, Will Burn That Bridge and rock My
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World both made top five on Billboard, with a former
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reaching number one on Radio and Records. Also included on
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the album was a remix of Bootscoot and Boogie. In
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nineteen ninety four, Hard Workin' Man won the duo a
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Grammy Award for the Best Country Performance by a Duo
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or Group with Vocal and the album was nominated for
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Best Country Album. Hard Workin Man earned its highest RIAA
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certification in two thousand two, when it was certified quintuple platinum.
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By the end of nineteen ninety four, the duo released
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their third studio album, Waiting on Sundown. It also produced
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five charting singles, three of which made number one on
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the Country charts, She's Not the Cheating Kind, Little Miss
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honky Tonk, and You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone.
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The other two singles, I'll Never Forgive My Heart and
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Whiskey under the Bridge, both made top ten. The first
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single from Brooks and Dunn's fourth album, Borderline, was a
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cover version of B. W. Stevenson's nineteen seventy three single
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My Maria. Their version of the song spent three weeks
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at number one at mid nineteen ninety six, and peaked
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at number seventy nine on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
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It was also that year's top country song according to
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the Billboard Year end Charts. Dunn said that he was
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initially reluctant to record My Maria because the duo had
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not previously recorded any cover songs. The song won Brooks
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and Dunn its second Grammy Award for Best Country Performance
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by a Group or Duo, and the duo won the
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nineteen ninety six Entertainer of the Year award from both
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the Country Music Association an Academy of Country Music, making
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them the first duo to win that award from the former.
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In nineteen ninety seven, Brooks and Dunn joined a double
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headliner tour with Reba McIntyre. Borderline produced another number one
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in a Man This Lonely, along with top ten hits
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I Am That Man and Why Would I Say good Bye? Mamma?
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Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing? The third single and
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B side to My Maria, became their first release not
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to make the top ten. The first Greatest Hits compilation
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was released on September sixth, nineteen ninety seven. It comprised
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most of their singles to that point and three new songs,
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don Quy Tong, Truth, He's Got You, and Days of Thunder.
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The first two were released as singles, with respective peaks
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of three and two on the country charts. The Greatest
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Hits Collection was certified platinum in April nineteen ninety eight
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and double platinum in two thousand one. Brooks and Dunn
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collaborated with Reba MacIntyre to perform if You See Him
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If You See Her, which was the lead off single
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to Brooks and Duns If You See Her and MacIntyre's
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if You See Him, both of which were released on
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the same day. Arista Nashville and m c A Nashville,
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the label to which McIntyre was signed, both promoted the single.
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This cut went to number one, as did If You
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See Hers. Next two singles, how Long Gone and a
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cover of Roger Miller's Husbands and Wives, which also became
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the duo's first top forty hit on the Billboard Hot
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one hundred. Dunn recorded the vocals for Husbands and Wives
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in one take. Also included on the album was a
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cover of Mark Cauley's Born and Raised in Black and White,
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the first song of the duo's career in which they
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alternated on lead vocals. The album's fourth single was I
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Can't Get Over You, which was a top five country
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head Following it was South of Santa Fe, which peaked
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at number forty one on the Country charts, thus becoming
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the duo's lowest peaking single there. In two thousand one,
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If You See Her reach double platinum certification in the
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United States. Tight Rope nineteen ninety nine, the duo's sixth album,
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was also its least commercially successful release. It included three singles,
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a cover of John Waite's Missing You, followed by Beer
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thirty and You Will Always Be Loved by Me. The
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former two failed to make top ten, while the latter
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peaked at number five and two thousand. Dunn co wrote
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some songs on this album was mc bride and the
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Ride lead singer and bassist Terry mc bride, who would
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later join Brooks and Dunn's road band, and Brooks collaborated
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with Bob de Piro. The duo shared production duties with
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Byron Gallimore and all three singles and four other songs
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on the album, while retaining Cook as producer on the
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other six. While Beer thirty was climbing, the album cut
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goin under Gettin Over You charted as high as number
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sixty based on unsolicited airplay. In addition to persuading the
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duo to stay together, Gallant suggested that they record the
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song Ain't Nothing Value because he felt it had potential
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as a hit. The song served as the lead single
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from their seventh album, two thousand Ones, Steers and Stripes.
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It became their longest lasting number one, with a six
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week stay at that position. This song was the second
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song of the duo's career to be named the top
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single of the year according to Billboard Year End. It
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was also their highest peak on the Billboard Hot one
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hundred at the time, peaking at number twenty five there
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The next two singles from Steers and Stripes both made
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number one as well, only in America, and the Long Goodbye,
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the latter of which was written by Irish pop singers
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Ronan Keaton and Paul Brady. After it, the duo charted
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at number five with My Heart Is Lost to You,
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and number twelve was a cover of Kim Ritchie's Every River,
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featuring a back vocal by Richie. All of these other
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singles also made the top charts. Brooks and Dunn released
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their first Christmas album in two thousand and two, titled
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It Won't Be Christmas Without You. Four of its cuts
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made the country music charts based on seasonal airplay, the
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title track Hanging Around the Missiletoe, Rockin' Little Christmas, and
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a rendition of Winter Wonderland. Who was followed in early
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two thousand and three by the duo's eighth studio album,
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Red Dirt Road, whose title track became the duo's eighteenth
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number one on Billboard. Two more singles were released from it,
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you Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl,
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which spent five weeks in the number three position, and
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That's what She Gets For Loving Me at number six
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on the Hot one hundred. These songs respectively peaked at
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twenty five, thirty nine, and fifty three. As with Steers
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and Stripes, Red Dirt Road was certified platinum. The album
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featured a rock oriented sound compared to the duo's previous releases.
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Ariston Nashville released Brooks and Dunn's second Greatest Hits package,
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The Greatest Hits Collection two, in October two thousand and four.
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The album included singles from if You See Her, Steers
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and Stripes, Red Dirt Road, and the previously unreleased That's
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what It's All About and It's Getting Better all the Time, respectively.
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These cuts peaked at numbers two and one on the
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six on the Hot one hundred. It excludes material from Tidrope.
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In August two thousand five, the duo released the single
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play Something Country. According to Dunn and co writer Terry
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mc bride, it was inspired by Gretchen Wilson, who was
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touring with Brooks and Dun and Big and Ridge on
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The Deuce's Wild Tour at the time. Play Something Country
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was the lead off to their ninth studio album, bill
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Billy Deluxe. Brooks and Dunn co produced it with Tony Brown,
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with further production from Mark Wright on My Heart's Not
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a Hotel. A month after the album's release, Play Something
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Country became the duo's twentieth and final number one on
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Hot Country Songs and went to number thirty seven on
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the Billboard Hot one hundred. The album's second single, Believe,
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peaked at number eight, also winning the next year's Single
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of the Year and Song of the Year awards from
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the Country Music Association. After it was Building Bridges with
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guest vocals from Vince Gill and Sheryl Crowe, which peaked
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at number four. Before the duo released this song, it
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had been released by co writer Larry Willoughby, a cousin
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of country singer Rodney Crowell, and later by Nicola Larsen.
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The final release from Hillbilly Deluxe was the title track,
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which peaked at number sixteen on Hot Country Songs. Their
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tenth studio album Cowboy Town, was released on October second,
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two thousand seven. Its lead off single, Proud of the
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House We Build reached number four on the Country charts
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and fifty seven on the Hot one hundred. Following this
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song where God Must Be Busy at number eleven, and
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Put a Girl In It at number three. After this song,
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the duo released Cowgirls Don't Cry, which they later performed
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with Reba MacIntyre at the Country Music Association Awards. Following
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this performance, the song was re released part way through
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its chart run, was MacIntyre dubbed into the final chorus.
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In early two thousand nine, the song peaked at number
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two in the Country charts. Although not released as a single,
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the title track spent three weeks on the charts and
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peaked at number fifty six. Also included on the album
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is a collaboration with Jerry Jeff Walker on the Ballad
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of Jerry Jeff Walker. Cowboy Town was also the name
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of the duo's two thousand nine tour, which featured Rodney
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Atkins and zz Top. The tour began on June six
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at the Bamajam Festival in Enterprise, Alabama. On August ten,
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two thousand nine, Brooks and Dunn announced that they would
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be splitting up after a tour titled The Last Rodeo.
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According to Brooks, the decision to split was on good terms.
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He told CMT that Dunn and he are still good friends,
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while Dunn said we've ended up more like brothers. The
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duo released its final compilation, Number Ones and Then on
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September eighth of the same year. The album features twenty
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eight past hits and two new songs, but again skipping
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material from Tide Rope. Both of these new songs, Indian
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Summer and honky Tonk's Tomp featuring guest vocals from Billy
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Gibbons and zz Top, peaked at number sixteen on the
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aired a tribute show presented by the Academy of Country
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Music titled The Last Rodeo, on which various country music
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stars performed Brooks and dun songs, while the duo received
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a Milestone Award. On December third, twenty fourteen, Brooks and
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Duns were announced to be reuniting to perform a series
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of concerts in Las Vegas with Viba McIntyre in mid
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to late twenty fifteen. In twenty sixteen, they were selected
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as some of the thirty artists to perform on Forever Country,
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a mashup track featuring the artists performing a medley of
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take Me Home, Country, Roads, on the Road Again, and
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I Will Always Love You, which was released in celebration
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of fifty years of the CMA Awards. In February twenty nineteen,
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the duo announced a new album called Reboot, which features
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re recordings of their previous singles with guest vocals from
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contemporary country music artists. In advance of the album's release,
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they issued two of their tracks, a version of Brand
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New Man with Luke Combs and Believe featuring Caine Brown.
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In addition, Brooks and Dunn announced to concert in Dallas
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alongside their Las Vegas residency, as well as a March
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twenty nineteen appearance at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
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Reboot was released on April fifth, twenty nineteen. Brooks and
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Dunn announced a sequel album to Reboot in twenty twenty four,
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titled Reboot two. It includes re recordings of their previous
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hit singles with other country music artists such as Jelly Roll,
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Lanny Wilson, and Megan Moroni. Unlike the previous project, it
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also includes collaborations with rock band Hailstorm and blues singer
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Marcus King. The album was released on November fifteenth, twenty
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twenty four.
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Welcome to the I Can't Sleep Podcast, where I help
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you drift off one fact at a time. I'm your host,
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Benjamin Boster, and today's episode is about Brooks and Done.
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This episode is a happy Birthday present for Dom and
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a special thank you for all your help on the podcast.
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Brooks and Dunn are an American country music duo consisting
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of Kicks Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, both of whom are
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vocalists and songwriters. The duo was founded in nineteen eighty
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eight through the suggestion of songwriter and record producer Tim Dubois.
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Before their formation, both members were solo recording artists, having
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each charted two UZ solo singles in the nineteen eighties.
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Kicks Brooks also released an album for Capitol Records in
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nineteen eighty nine and wrote hit singles for other artists.
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The duo signed to Arista Nashville after their formation. They
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recorded eleven studio albums, one Christmas album, and five compilation
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albums for the label. They also have released fifty singles,
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of which twenty went to number one on the Hot
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Country Songs chart and nineteen more reached top ten. Two
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of these number one songs, my Maria a posthumous cover
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of the nineteen seventy three B. W. Stevens hit and
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Ain't Nothing About You were the top country songs of
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nineteen ninety six and two thousand one, respectively, according to
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the Billboard Year End Charts. The latter is also the
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duo's longest lasting number one single on that chart, at
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six weeks. Several of their songs have also reached the
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Billboard Hot one hundred was the number twenty five peaks
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of Ain't Nothing About You and Red Dirt Road being
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their highest there. Brooks and Dunn also won the Country
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Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year award every year
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between nineteen ninety two and two thousand six, except for
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two thousand. Brooks and Dunn won the award again in
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twenty twenty four. Two of their songs won the Grammy
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Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group
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with Vocal hard Working Man in nineteen ninety four and
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My Maria in nineteen ninety six. All but two of
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the duo's studio albums are certified platinum or higher by
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the Recording Industry Association of America. Their highest certified is
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their nineteen ninety one debut album, Brand New Man, which
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is certified sextuple platinum for shipments of six million copies.
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The duo's material is known for containing influences of honky Tonk,
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mainstream country, and rock, as well as a contrast between
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their singing voices and on stage personalities, Although some of
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their music has also been criticized as formulae, their nineteen
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ninety two single Bootscoot and Boogie helped repopularize line dancing
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in the United States. Brooks and Dunn have collaborated with
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several artists, including Reba McIntyre, Vince Gill, Sheryl Crowe, mac Powell,
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Billy Gibbons, Jerry Jeff Walker, and Luke Combs. After announcing
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their retirement in August two thousand nine, they performed their
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final concert on September second, twenty ten, at the Bridgestone
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Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. Both Brooks and Dunn have continued
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to record for eirest to Nashville as solo artists. Dunn
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released a self titled album in twenty eleven, which included
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the top ten country hit Bleed Red, while Brooks released
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New to This Town in September twenty twelve. The duo
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reunited in twenty fifteen for a series of concerts with
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Reba McIntyre and Life Las Vegas. In twenty nineteen, the
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duo was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
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leon Eric Kicks Brooks, the Third, was born on May twelfth,
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nineteen fifty five, in Shreveport, Louisiana, and before moving to Nashville, Tennessee,
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in nineteen seventy six, he played at various venues in Maine.
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He was also a neighbor of country singer Johnny Horton.
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Brooks worked as a songwriter in the nineteen eighties, co
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writing the number one singles I'm Only in It for
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the Love by John Conley, Modern Day Romance by the
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Nitty Gritty Dirty Band, and Who's Lonely Now by Highway
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one oh one plus the Oakridge Boys top twenty head
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He made a Rock of a Rolling Stone at Larsen's
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let Me Be the First and Keith Palmers Don't Throw
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Me in the Briar Patch. Brooks also released several singles
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through the independent Avian label, charting at number seventy three
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on Hot Country Songs in nineteen eighty three with Baby
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When your Heart Breaks Down. In nineteen eighty nine, he
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released a self titled studio album through Capitol Records. This
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album included Baby When Your Heart Breaks Down and Sacred Ground,
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which McBride and The Ride covered and took to number
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two on the country charts in nineteen ninety two. Brooks
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and Pam Tillis co wrote and sang on Tomorrow's World,
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a multi artist single released on Warner Brothers Records in
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nineteen ninety in honor of earth Day. Brooks also co
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produced and co wrote Backbone Job, a Keith Whitley outtake
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that appeared in his nineteen ninety one compilation album Kentucky Bluebird.
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Ronnie Gen Dunn was born on June first, nineteen fifty three,
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in Coleman, Texas. He played bass, guitar and local bands
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during high school, and he briefly studied theology at Hardin
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Simmons University with the intention of becoming a Baptist preacher.
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Dunn was kicked out of the school because he played
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in bars. Between nineteen eighty three and nineteen eighty four,
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he recorded for the church Hill label, taking both ITDs
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written all over Your Face and She Put the Sad
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in All his songs to number fifty nine on the
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country charts in nineteen eighty nine, says drummer Jamie Oldacre
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entered Dunn in a talent contest sponsored by Marlborough, which
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he won the grand prize in The competition included a
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recording session in Nashville, Tennessee. The producer of that session,
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Scott Hendricks, recommended Dunn's recordings to Tim Dubois, then an
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executive of Heirest in Nashville. Dubois paired Brooks and Dunn
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because he thought that they would work well together as songwriters,
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and after the two recorded a demo, he suggested that
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they form a duo. During this time span, Dunn also
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wrote boots Guten Boogie, which Asleep at the Wheel recorded
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on their nineteen ninety album Keeping Me Up Nights. Brooks
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and Dunn's first single, brand New Man, entered the Hot
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to number one. It was the title track to the
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duo's debut album, Brand New Man, which was released two
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months later. Brooks and Dunn wrote this song and several
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other cuts in collaboration with songwriter Don Cook, who co
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produced the album with Hendrix. It was also Cook's first
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credit as a producer. The next three single releases from
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Brand new Man, My Next Broken Heart, Neo Moon, and
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their own rendition of Bootscooten Boogie, all made number one
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on the Country music charts as well, making for the
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first time in country music history that a duo or
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group had sent its first four singles to the the
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top of the charts. A fifth single, Lost and Found,
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peaked at number six. Bootscoot and Boogie, which had previously
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been the B side to My Next Broken Heart, also
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made number fifty on the Billboard Hot one hundred, and
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its commercial success led to a renewal interest in line
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dancing throughout the United States. Brand New Man was certified
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platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in August
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nineteen ninety two for shipments of one million copies. By
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two thousand and two, the album had been certified sextuple
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platinum for shipments of six million. It spent more than
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one hundred and ninety weeks in the Top Country Albums charts.
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In nineteen ninety two, the duo the Duo of the
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Year award from the Country Music Association, which also nominated
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them for that year's Album of the Year and Horizon Awards.
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Brooks and Dunn won the association's Duo Award for every
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year from then on until two thousand and six, except
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for two thousand, when the award went to Montgomery Gentry.
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After the album's release, Brooks and Dunn began touring as well.
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Hard Working Man was the title of Brooks and Dunn's
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second album, which was released in nineteen ninety three. The
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title track, also its first single, peaked at number four
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on the Country music charts. The album included two number
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one singles in its third and fifth releases, she Used
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to Be Mine and its B side that Ain't No
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Where to Go, Will Burn That Bridge and rock My
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World both made top five on Billboard, with a former
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reaching number one on Radio and Records. Also included on
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the album was a remix of Bootscoot and Boogie. In
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nineteen ninety four, Hard Workin' Man won the duo a
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Grammy Award for the Best Country Performance by a Duo
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or Group with Vocal and the album was nominated for
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Best Country Album. Hard Workin Man earned its highest RIAA
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certification in two thousand two, when it was certified quintuple platinum.
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By the end of nineteen ninety four, the duo released
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their third studio album, Waiting on Sundown. It also produced
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five charting singles, three of which made number one on
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the Country charts, She's Not the Cheating Kind, Little Miss
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honky Tonk, and You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone.
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The other two singles, I'll Never Forgive My Heart and
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Whiskey under the Bridge, both made top ten. The first
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single from Brooks and Dunn's fourth album, Borderline, was a
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cover version of B. W. Stevenson's nineteen seventy three single
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My Maria. Their version of the song spent three weeks
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at number one at mid nineteen ninety six, and peaked
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at number seventy nine on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
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It was also that year's top country song according to
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the Billboard Year end Charts. Dunn said that he was
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initially reluctant to record My Maria because the duo had
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not previously recorded any cover songs. The song won Brooks
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and Dunn its second Grammy Award for Best Country Performance
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by a Group or Duo, and the duo won the
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nineteen ninety six Entertainer of the Year award from both
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the Country Music Association an Academy of Country Music, making
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them the first duo to win that award from the former.
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In nineteen ninety seven, Brooks and Dunn joined a double
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headliner tour with Reba McIntyre. Borderline produced another number one
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in a Man This Lonely, along with top ten hits
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I Am That Man and Why Would I Say good Bye? Mamma?
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Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing? The third single and
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B side to My Maria, became their first release not
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to make the top ten. The first Greatest Hits compilation
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was released on September sixth, nineteen ninety seven. It comprised
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most of their singles to that point and three new songs,
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don Quy Tong, Truth, He's Got You, and Days of Thunder.
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The first two were released as singles, with respective peaks
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of three and two on the country charts. The Greatest
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Hits Collection was certified platinum in April nineteen ninety eight
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and double platinum in two thousand one. Brooks and Dunn
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collaborated with Reba MacIntyre to perform if You See Him
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If You See Her, which was the lead off single
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to Brooks and Duns If You See Her and MacIntyre's
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if You See Him, both of which were released on
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the same day. Arista Nashville and m c A Nashville,
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the label to which McIntyre was signed, both promoted the single.
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This cut went to number one, as did If You
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See Hers. Next two singles, how Long Gone and a
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cover of Roger Miller's Husbands and Wives, which also became
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the duo's first top forty hit on the Billboard Hot
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one hundred. Dunn recorded the vocals for Husbands and Wives
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in one take. Also included on the album was a
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cover of Mark Cauley's Born and Raised in Black and White,
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the first song of the duo's career in which they
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alternated on lead vocals. The album's fourth single was I
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Can't Get Over You, which was a top five country
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head Following it was South of Santa Fe, which peaked
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at number forty one on the Country charts, thus becoming
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the duo's lowest peaking single there. In two thousand one,
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If You See Her reach double platinum certification in the
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United States. Tight Rope nineteen ninety nine, the duo's sixth album,
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was also its least commercially successful release. It included three singles,
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a cover of John Waite's Missing You, followed by Beer
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thirty and You Will Always Be Loved by Me. The
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former two failed to make top ten, while the latter
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peaked at number five and two thousand. Dunn co wrote
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some songs on this album was mc bride and the
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Ride lead singer and bassist Terry mc bride, who would
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later join Brooks and Dunn's road band, and Brooks collaborated
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with Bob de Piro. The duo shared production duties with
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Byron Gallimore and all three singles and four other songs
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on the album, while retaining Cook as producer on the
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other six. While Beer thirty was climbing, the album cut
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goin under Gettin Over You charted as high as number
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sixty based on unsolicited airplay. In addition to persuading the
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duo to stay together, Gallant suggested that they record the
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song Ain't Nothing Value because he felt it had potential
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as a hit. The song served as the lead single
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from their seventh album, two thousand Ones, Steers and Stripes.
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It became their longest lasting number one, with a six
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week stay at that position. This song was the second
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song of the duo's career to be named the top
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single of the year according to Billboard Year End. It
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was also their highest peak on the Billboard Hot one
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hundred at the time, peaking at number twenty five there
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The next two singles from Steers and Stripes both made
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number one as well, only in America, and the Long Goodbye,
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the latter of which was written by Irish pop singers
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Ronan Keaton and Paul Brady. After it, the duo charted
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at number five with My Heart Is Lost to You,
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and number twelve was a cover of Kim Ritchie's Every River,
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featuring a back vocal by Richie. All of these other
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singles also made the top charts. Brooks and Dunn released
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their first Christmas album in two thousand and two, titled
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It Won't Be Christmas Without You. Four of its cuts
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made the country music charts based on seasonal airplay, the
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title track Hanging Around the Missiletoe, Rockin' Little Christmas, and
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a rendition of Winter Wonderland. Who was followed in early
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two thousand and three by the duo's eighth studio album,
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Red Dirt Road, whose title track became the duo's eighteenth
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number one on Billboard. Two more singles were released from it,
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you Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl,
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which spent five weeks in the number three position, and
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That's what She Gets For Loving Me at number six
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on the Hot one hundred. These songs respectively peaked at
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twenty five, thirty nine, and fifty three. As with Steers
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and Stripes, Red Dirt Road was certified platinum. The album
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featured a rock oriented sound compared to the duo's previous releases.
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Ariston Nashville released Brooks and Dunn's second Greatest Hits package,
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The Greatest Hits Collection two, in October two thousand and four.
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The album included singles from if You See Her, Steers
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and Stripes, Red Dirt Road, and the previously unreleased That's
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what It's All About and It's Getting Better all the Time, respectively.
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These cuts peaked at numbers two and one on the
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six on the Hot one hundred. It excludes material from Tidrope.
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In August two thousand five, the duo released the single
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play Something Country. According to Dunn and co writer Terry
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mc bride, it was inspired by Gretchen Wilson, who was
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touring with Brooks and Dun and Big and Ridge on
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The Deuce's Wild Tour at the time. Play Something Country
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was the lead off to their ninth studio album, bill
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Billy Deluxe. Brooks and Dunn co produced it with Tony Brown,
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with further production from Mark Wright on My Heart's Not
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a Hotel. A month after the album's release, Play Something
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Country became the duo's twentieth and final number one on
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Hot Country Songs and went to number thirty seven on
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the Billboard Hot one hundred. The album's second single, Believe,
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peaked at number eight, also winning the next year's Single
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of the Year and Song of the Year awards from
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the Country Music Association. After it was Building Bridges with
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guest vocals from Vince Gill and Sheryl Crowe, which peaked
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at number four. Before the duo released this song, it
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had been released by co writer Larry Willoughby, a cousin
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of country singer Rodney Crowell, and later by Nicola Larsen.
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The final release from Hillbilly Deluxe was the title track,
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which peaked at number sixteen on Hot Country Songs. Their
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tenth studio album Cowboy Town, was released on October second,
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two thousand seven. Its lead off single, Proud of the
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House We Build reached number four on the Country charts
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and fifty seven on the Hot one hundred. Following this
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song where God Must Be Busy at number eleven, and
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Put a Girl In It at number three. After this song,
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the duo released Cowgirls Don't Cry, which they later performed
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with Reba MacIntyre at the Country Music Association Awards. Following
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this performance, the song was re released part way through
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its chart run, was MacIntyre dubbed into the final chorus.
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In early two thousand nine, the song peaked at number
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two in the Country charts. Although not released as a single,
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the title track spent three weeks on the charts and
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peaked at number fifty six. Also included on the album
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is a collaboration with Jerry Jeff Walker on the Ballad
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of Jerry Jeff Walker. Cowboy Town was also the name
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of the duo's two thousand nine tour, which featured Rodney
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Atkins and zz Top. The tour began on June six
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at the Bamajam Festival in Enterprise, Alabama. On August ten,
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two thousand nine, Brooks and Dunn announced that they would
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be splitting up after a tour titled The Last Rodeo.
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According to Brooks, the decision to split was on good terms.
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He told CMT that Dunn and he are still good friends,
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while Dunn said we've ended up more like brothers. The
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duo released its final compilation, Number Ones and Then on
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September eighth of the same year. The album features twenty
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eight past hits and two new songs, but again skipping
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material from Tide Rope. Both of these new songs, Indian
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Summer and honky Tonk's Tomp featuring guest vocals from Billy
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Gibbons and zz Top, peaked at number sixteen on the
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aired a tribute show presented by the Academy of Country
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Music titled The Last Rodeo, on which various country music
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stars performed Brooks and dun songs, while the duo received
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a Milestone Award. On December third, twenty fourteen, Brooks and
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Duns were announced to be reuniting to perform a series
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of concerts in Las Vegas with Viba McIntyre in mid
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to late twenty fifteen. In twenty sixteen, they were selected
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as some of the thirty artists to perform on Forever Country,
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a mashup track featuring the artists performing a medley of
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take Me Home, Country, Roads, on the Road Again, and
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I Will Always Love You, which was released in celebration
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of fifty years of the CMA Awards. In February twenty nineteen,
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the duo announced a new album called Reboot, which features
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re recordings of their previous singles with guest vocals from
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contemporary country music artists. In advance of the album's release,
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they issued two of their tracks, a version of Brand
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New Man with Luke Combs and Believe featuring Caine Brown.
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In addition, Brooks and Dunn announced to concert in Dallas
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alongside their Las Vegas residency, as well as a March
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twenty nineteen appearance at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.
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Reboot was released on April fifth, twenty nineteen. Brooks and
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Dunn announced a sequel album to Reboot in twenty twenty four,
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titled Reboot two. It includes re recordings of their previous
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hit singles with other country music artists such as Jelly Roll,
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Lanny Wilson, and Megan Moroni. Unlike the previous project, it
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also includes collaborations with rock band Hailstorm and blues singer
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Marcus King. The album was released on November fifteenth, twenty
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twenty four.
