Brooks & Dunn to split up

Posted by brandy

on August 10, 2009M at 10:10 pm

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Brooks & Dunn (from left, former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks) perform a 2008 concert at Oklahoma City’s Ford Center. (Photo by Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman Archives)

Star country duo Brooks & Dunn is calling it quits.

The best-selling country duo, which includes former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn, posted a message on its Web site today saying they’ve agreed to “call it a day” after 20 years of making music together, according to the Associated Press.

“This ride has been everything and more than we could ever have dreamed … We owe it all to you, the fans,” Kix Brooks and Dunn said in the message. “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, according to the AP.

The duo has cranked out numerous hits in the past two decades, including “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” ”My Maria,” ”Red Dirt Road” and recent chart-topper “Cowgirls Don’t Cry” with Oklahoma native Reba McEntire.

They’ve recorded 10 studio albums; the latest was 2007’s “Cowboy Town.”

The duo has sold more than 30 million albums, according to label Arista Nashville.

Brooks, 54, and Dunn, 56, were struggling solo artists when Arista’s Tim DuBois urged them to join forces in 1990. As a duo, they’ve notched 23 No. 1 hits.

Brooks & Dunn won the Country Music Association’s vocal duo of the year award every year between 1992 and 2006, except for 2000, according to the AP.

The CMA also named the pair entertainer of the year in 1996.

-BAM

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