Brooks & Dunn - The Essential Brooks & Dunn Review

Prior to their break up in 2009, Brooks & Dunn were setting about releasing the retrospective album #1’s…and Then Some. Now titled The Essential Brooks and Dunn, and issued in 2012, the album remains the very same collection of songs.
While The Essential Brooks & Dunn doesn’t have ALL of Brooks & Dunn’s hits, it does have most of their essential stuff and of the hits they missed here, you can always pick up their previous Greatest Hits packages or simply download the singles digitally. People are indeed ‘gonna miss’ Brooks & Dunn when the duo is ‘gone,’ even if Kix & Ronnie don't ever 'go away.' (Dunn released "Ronnie Dunn" in 2011 and Kix Brooks, in addition to the American Country Countdown radio program, has released his debut single "New To This Town" in early 2012)....full text Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn both brought considerable songwriting chops to the table when they joined forces in 1988, and both had a sharp eye for a good song, and together they had a vision for country music that was as much Southern rock as it was honky tonk. Their stage shows were high-octane, theatrical affairs, and when all was said and done, Brooks & Dunn ended up being the best-selling duo of all time, country or pop, with an astonishing string of Top Ten hits, including "Neon Moon," "Husbands and Wives," "Red Dirt Road," "My Next Broken Heart," and so many more. This two-disc, 30-song set brings the duo's key and signature tracks (including, of course, the ubiquitous "Boot Scootin' Boogie") together, and everything absolutely essential is here, as well as two new tracks, "Honky Tonk Stomp" and "Indian Summer," that fit seamlessly beside all those hits. Brooks & Dunn brought a lot of kick and fun to contemporary country radio, and they did it with focus and integrity. ...full text