Brooks & Dunn

Their ninth CD offers music for honky tonkers with progressive tastes. "When We Were Kings" features a delayed guitar that sounds like the Edge from U2, but their twangy roadhouse rock never lets you forget that this is indeed a hot country band. Even the slower songs balance tradition with innovation quite tastefully.

Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn helped spur the country line-dancing fad in the Nineties, and
subsequently, they have run their raging career with grace and even some daring. But
their work cried out for something more, for an album capable of demonstrating to
listeners beyond their fan base the Brooks and Dunn mix of hot rhythm and mall-era
honky-tonk. Their tenth collection, the winning Red Dirt Road, is that album. No... More >