Brooks & Dunn

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Brooks & Dunn are a country music singer/songwriter duo, one of the most successful in the history of country music. They debuted in 1991 and have since won the Vocal Duo Award of the Country Music Association nearly every year (1992 through 2005 except 2000), as well as CMA Album of the Year for 1994 and Entertainer of the Year for 1996. As of 2004, the duo had won 19 CMA awards[1]. Image:Brooksdunn.jpg They are prominent players of line dance music. One of their hits is the line-dancing song "Boot Scootin' Boogie"; The video for this song was made in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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The duo

  • Kix Brooks - who was born Leon Eric Brooks in Shreveport, Louisiana on May 12, 1955. By 2000, he had won 6 BMI awards. As of January 2006, Kix Brooks is the new host of the ACC Top 40, a well known syndicated radio program formerly hosted by Bob Kingsley.
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Band members

  • Lou Toomey - Guitar
  • Terry McBride - Bass
  • Dwain Rowe - Keyboards
  • Tony King - Guitar, backup vocals
  • Jimmy Stewart - Fiddle, Acoustic Guitar
  • Gary Morse - Steel Guitar
  • Trey Gray - Drums
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Discography

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Albums

Hillbilly Deluxe (2005) US #3

  • Play Something Country (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • She's About As Lonely As I'm Gonna Let Her Get
  • My Heart's Not A Hotel
  • Whiskey Do My Talkin'
  • Hillbilly Deluxe
  • One More Roll of the Dice
  • Just Another Neon Night
  • Believe (Single: BB #8)
  • Building Bridges
  • Her West
  • I May Never Get Over You
  • She Likes To Get Out of Town
  • Again
  • It Ain't Me If It Ain't You (Bonus Song)
  • Sweet Mystery (Bonus Song)
  • Down by the River (Bonus Song)

The Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 2 (2004) US #7 [Certified Gold]

  • That's What It's All About (Single: BB #2 / R&R #2)
  • How Long Gone (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Ain't Nothing 'Bout You (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • The Long Goodbye (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • My Heart is Lost To You (Single: BB #5 / R&R #5)
  • I Can't Get Over You (Single: BB #5 / R&R #4)
  • Red Dirt Road (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Husbands and Wives (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • That's What She Gets for Loving Me (Single: BB #4 / R&R #6)
  • Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl (Single: BB #3 / R&R #3)
  • It's Getting Better All The Time (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Only in America (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • A Man This Lonely (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Independent Trucker
  • I'll Never Forgive My Heart (Single: BB #6 / R&R #3)
  • If You See Him (If You See Her) (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • South of Santa Fe (Single: BB #41 / R&R #34)

Red Dirt Road (2003) US #4 [Certified Platinum]

  • Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl (Single: BB #3 / R&R #3)
  • Caroline
  • When We Were Kings
  • That's What She Gets For Loving Me (Single: BB #4 / R&R #6)
  • Red Dirt Road (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Feels Good Don't It
  • I Used to Know This Song By Heart
  • Believer
  • Memory Town
  • She Was Born to Run
  • Til My Dyin' Day
  • My Baby's Everything I Love
  • Good Day To Be Me
  • Good Cowboy
  • Holy War (Hidden Song)

It Won't Be Christmas Without You (2002) US #81

  • Winter Wonderland
  • Hangin' Round the Mistletoe
  • It Won't Be Christmas Without You
  • Rockin' Little Christmas
  • Blue Christmas
  • Santa's Coming Over to Your House
  • The Christmas Song
  • Santa Claus is Coming to Town
  • Who Says There Ain't No Santa
  • I'll Be Home for Christmas
  • White Christmas

Steers and Stripes (2001) US #4 [Certified Platinum]

  • Only in America (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • The Last Thing I Do
  • The Long Goodbye (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Go West
  • My Heart is Lost to You (Single: BB #5 / R&R #5)
  • Good Girls Go To Heaven
  • When She's Gone, She's Gone
  • Ain't Nothing 'Bout You (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Unloved
  • Deny, Deny, Deny
  • Lucky Me, Lonely You
  • Fall
  • Every River (Single: BB #12 / R&R #12)
  • See Jane Dance

Super Hits (1999)

  • Neon Moon (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Rock My World (Little Country Girl) (Single: BB #2 / R&R #2)
  • A Man This Lonely (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • If That's The Way You Want It
  • Cool Drink of Water
  • I Can't Put Out This Fire
  • Our Time is Coming
  • White Line Casanova

Tight Rope (1999) US #31 [Certified Gold]

  • Goin' Under Gettin' Over You
  • Missing You (Single: BB #15 / R&R #13)
  • Temptation #9
  • Hurt Train
  • Can't Stop My Heart
  • Too Far This Time
  • You'll Always Be Loved By Me (Single: BB #5 / R&R #5)
  • I Love You More
  • Beer Thirty (Single: BB #19 / R&R #15)
  • Don't Look Back Now
  • All Out of Love
  • The Trouble with Angels
  • Texas and Norma Jean

If You See Her (1998) US #11 [Certified 2x Platinum]

  • How Long Gone (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • I Can't Get Over You (Single: BB #5 / R&R #4)
  • South of Santa Fe (Single: BB #41 / R&R #34)
  • If You See Him/If You See Her (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Brand New Whiskey
  • Born and Raised in Black and White
  • You're Love Don't Take A Backseat To Nothing
  • Husbands and Wives (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Way Gone
  • When Love Dies
  • You're My Angel

Greatest Hits (1997) US #4 [Certified 4x Platinum]

  • My Maria (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Honky Tonk Truth (Single: BB #3 / R&R #3)
  • You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Boot Scootin' Boogie (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • He's Got You (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Hard Workin' Man (Single: BB #4 / R&R #4)
  • That Ain't No Way To Go (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Rock My World (Little Country Girl) (Single: BB #2 / R&R #2)
  • Neon Moon (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Lost and Found (Single: BB #6 / R&R #5)
  • She's Not the Cheatin' Kind (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Brand New Man (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Days of Thunder
  • We'll Burn That Bridge (Single: BB #2 / R&R #1)
  • She Used To Be Mine (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing (Single: BB #13 / R&R #11)
  • My Next Broken Heart (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Whiskey Under The Bridge (Single: BB #7 / R&R #6)
  • Little Miss Honky Tonk (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)

Borderline (1996) US #5 [Certified 2x Platinum]

  • My Maria (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • A Man This Lonely (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Why Would I Say Goodbye (Single: BB #8 / R&R #6)
  • Mama Don't Get Dressed Up For Nothing (Single: BB #13 / R&R #11)
  • I Am That Man (Single: BB #2 / R&R #1)
  • More Than a Margarita
  • Redneck Rhythm & Blues
  • My Love Will Follow You
  • One Heartache at a Time
  • Tequila Town
  • White Line Casanova

Waitin' on Sundown (1994) US #15 [Certified 2x Platinum]

  • Little Miss Honky Tonk (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • She's Not the Cheatin' Kind (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Silver and Gold
  • I'll Never Forgive My Heart (Single: BB #6 / R&R #3)
  • You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • My Kind of Crazy
  • Whiskey Under the Bridge (Single: BB #7 / R&R #6)
  • If That's the Way You Want It
  • She's the Kind of Trouble
  • A Few Good Rides Away

Hard Workin' Man (1993) US #9 [Certified 5x Platinum]

  • Hard Workin' Man (Single: BB #4 / R&R #4)
  • We'll Burn That Bridge (Single: BB #2 / R&R #1)
  • Mexican Minutes
  • Heartbroke Out of My Mind
  • She Used to Be Mine (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Rock My World (Little Country Girl) (Single: BB #2 / R&R #2)
  • That Ain't No Way to Go (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Texas Woman (Don't Stay Lonely Long)
  • Our Time Is Coming
  • I Can't Put Out This Fire
  • Boot Scootin' Boogie [Club Mix] (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)

Brand New Man (1991) US #10 [Certified 6x Platinum]

  • Brand New Man (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • My Next Broken Heart (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Cool Drink of Water
  • Cheating on the Blues
  • Neon Moon (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • Lost and Found (Single: BB #6 / R&R #5)
  • I've Got a Lot to Learn
  • Boot Scootin' Boogie (Single: BB #1 / R&R #1)
  • I'm No Good
  • Still in Love With You
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Singles

  • 1992 "Boot Scootin' Boogie" US #50
  • 1994 "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" US #97
  • 1996 "My Maria" US #79
  • 1998 "Husbands and Wives" US #36
  • 1999 "I Can't Get over You" US #51
  • 1999 "Missing You" US #75
  • 2000 "Beer Thirty" US #94
  • 2000 "You'll Always Be Loved by Me" US #55
  • 2001 "Ain't Nothin' 'bout You" US #25
  • 2001 "Only in America" US #33
  • 2001 "The Long Goodbye/Go West" US #39
  • 2002 "Every River" US #75
  • 2002 "My Heart Is Lost to You" US #48
  • 2003 "Red Dirt Road" US #25
  • 2004 "That's What It's All About" US #38
  • 2004 "That's What She Gets for Loving Me" US #53
  • 2004 "You Can't Take the Honky Tonk out of the Girl" US #39
  • 2005 "It's Getting Better All the Time" US #56
  • 2005 "Play Something Country" US #37
  • 2005 "Believe" US #21
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Awards

  • 2005 Billboard Music Awards Favorite Country Group
  • 2005 American Music Awards Favorite Band, Duo or Group
  • 2005 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 2005 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 2005 People's Choice Awards Favorite Country Group
  • 2004 American Music Awards Favorite Band, Duo or Group
  • 2004 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 2004 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 2003 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 2003 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 2002 CMT Flameworthy Video Music Awards Group/Duo Video of the Year
  • 2002 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1999 TNN/Music City News Vocal Group or Duo of the Year
  • 1999 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1998 TNN/Music City News Vocal Group or Duo of the Year
  • 1998 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1997 TNN/Music City News Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1997 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1997 American Music Awards Favorite Band, Duo or Group
  • 1997 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo/Group
  • 1996 Grammy Best Country Performance by Duo/Group w/Vocals
  • 1996 CMA Entertainer of the Year
  • 1996 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1996 Academy of Country Music Entertainer of the Year
  • 1996 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 1995 TNN/Music City News Vocal Group/Duo of the Year
  • 1995 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1994 TNN/Music City News Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1994 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1994 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 1993 TNN/Music City News Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1993 Grammy Best Country Performance by Duo/Group w/Vocals
  • 1993 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1993 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 1992 CMA Vocal Duo of the Year
  • 1992 Academy of Country Music Album of the Year
  • 1992 Academy of Country Music Single of the Year
  • 1992 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
  • 1991 Academy of Country Music Top New Vocal Duo/Group
  • 1991 Academy of Country Music Top Vocal Duo
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Photos

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External links

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