Brooks & Dunn break up after running out of ideas
Brooks & Dunn (Associated Press photo)
Star country duo Brooks & Dunn decided to break up their 20-year musical partnership after realizing they had run out of ideas, according to the Associated Press.
Former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks talked about their planned split Wednesday during a taping of the Country Music Television show ”Invitation Only.” The episode will air Oct. 30.
On Monday, the duo announced on their Web site that they will go their separate ways after releasing the greatest hits album ”#1s … and then some” on Sept. 8 and taking their finale tour, dubbed “The Last Rodeo Tour,” in 2010.
Here is the duo’s message from www.brooks-dunn.com:
To Our Fans:
After 20 years of making music and riding this trail together, we have
agreed as a duo that it’s time to call it a day. 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
Brooks told a questioning audience member that while working on the new album, they looked at each other and said, “You know what? I think we’ve just kind of exhausted it.”
“We’ve managed year after year to come up with material for albums, gear up for another tour, ideas and all these things,” Brooks said. “We’ve explored everything we could think of musically.”
He said he and Dunn remain good friends and have never had a “good fight” or even yelled at each other.
“I don’t known how to say it any different than it was just time,” he said.
Dunn told the audience the duo began as a “contrived act” in 1990, with the two “thrown together” by their record label. They began as co-workers “then ended up more like brothers than anything,” he said.
The duo has sold more than 30 million albums and had 23 No. 1 hits.
To be honest, this news still hasn’t quite sunk in with me. Country music just won’t be the same without Brooks & Dunn.
- BAM
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When I heard they were breaking up I actually cried. When I hear the words “Country music” I think about Brooks and Dunn! They were the only group that I still loved and now their gone
….Hope they have fun with the rest of whatever they choose to do and all we can do is pray in 10+ years they do one last tour.