Friday Featured Track: Brooks & Dunn and Billy Gibbons do the “Honky Tonk Stomp”
The song that has been on my brain the most this week:
- “Honky Tonk Stomp,” Brooks & Dunn featuring Billy Gibbons, from the duo’s 2009 compilation album “#1′s…And Then Some.”
We’re wrapping up Brooks & Dunn Week here on BAM’s Blog as the soon-to-split duo of former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Louisiana native Kix Brooks are bringing their “Last Rodeo Tour” to Tulsa’s BOK Center at 7:30 tonight with special guest Jason Aldean.
Between Sunday night’s great TV special “ACM Presents: Brooks & Dunn – The Last Rodeo” to the anticipation about tonight’s show, it’s been hard not to have Brooks & Dunn on the brain this week. But all red dirt roads on this busy Oklahoma weekend seem to point to the musical partners, who are going their separate ways after their farewell tour this summer.
For instance, former-pop-star-turned-country-singer Darius Rucker is playing a show Sunday night at Norman’s Riverwind Casino. In the taped ACM TV special, Rucker shared how Brooks & Dunn were the first country stars who let him open for them when he made the transition to country. His first big country show took place – that’s right – in Oklahoma at Miami’s Buffalo Run Casino. In an interview this week, Rucker shared with me that Kix and Ronnie will always have a special place in his heart for giving him that first show.
In another strange coincidence, ZZ Top also is playing an Oklahoma show this jam-packed weekend: The Texas trio is headlining Pryor’s Rocklahoma on Saturday. ZZ Top guitarist Billy Gibbons played on Brooks & Dunn’s 50th and final single as a duo: “Honky Tonk Stomp.”
In honor of country concurrences and Brooks & Dunn’s final ride through Oklahoma, do the “Honky Tonk Stomp.”
-BAM
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