Brooks & Dunn to play final show tonight in Nashville
It’s a sad day for country music fans: The final concert for stunningly successful duo Brooks & Dunn is set for 7:30 tonight at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn.
A little more than a year ago, former Tulsan Ronnie Dunn and Louisiana native Kix Brooks announced plans to end their two-decade musical partnership after touring this summer. To borrow one of the duo’s song titles, it was “The Long Goodbye,” but not nearly long enough.
“The Last Rodeo Tour” included stops at the Ford Center in Oklahoma City and BOK Center in Tulsa. The latter was familiar territory for Dunn, who moved to T-town after college and became one of the hottest artists on the competitive Oklahoma club scene.
In the past 20 years, Brooks & Dunn have become the best-selling duo in country music history; in fact, they have sold more records than any musical duo in any genre, including Simon & Garfunkel, according to AllMusic.com. They have moved more than 30 million albums, scored 23 No. 1 hits and won more than 80 major industry awards. The pair is the most honored artist in ACM history, with 27 trophies to their name, including 16 top vocal duo titles and three entertainer of the year awards.
Brooks & Dunn’s partnership started out with the record industry equivalent of a blind date. Brooks, who as a child was neighbor to Johnny Horton, moved to Nashville in the early ‘80s and found success as a songwriter but not a solo performer.
A Coleman, Texas native, Dunn relocated to Tulsa, where he fronted the house band at the popular nightspot Duke’s Country and then broke into the national spotlight by winning the Marlboro Talent Competition. His original songs “Neon Moon” and “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” which became No. 1 hits on the duo’s first album, got the attention of Nashville.
Oklahoma native Tim DuBois, then-head of the Arista Nashville label, paired them as a duo and assigned them to write a song together. In one day, they penned “Brand New Man” and “My Next Broken Heart,” the other two chart-toppers from their 1991 debut. It was an auspicious beginning, and the partners continued to find success with a combination of rollicking honky-tonk stompers with tender power ballads.
It isn’t quite over for Brooks & Dunn: The pair was nominated earlier this week for vocal duo of the year for the 44th Annual CMA Awards. Country fans can hope that they’ll show up and maybe even perform at the Nov. 10 awards show.
Dunn told the Associated Press back in spring that he and Brooks may be going their separate ways, but they will continue to make music as solo artists.
“I’m going to buy a secondhand van and get a rusty old horse trailer, throw me some band equipment in it, and go find me a beer joint and keep singing,” he said.
Still, after tonight, country music won’t ever be the same.
-BAM
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