Cowboy Town

Performer: Brooks & Dunn
Producer: Kix Brooks; Tony Brown; Ronnie Dunn
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Additional personnel: Jerry Jeff Walker. Brooks and Dunn are almost single-handedly responsible for the rise of acts like Big 'n' Rich, Toby Keith, and the rest of the post-millennium country-rock gang. On 2007's COWBOY TOWN, Brooks and Dunn make plain their role at the pivot point between the rowdy present and the outlaw country past. Specifically, the wry "The Ballad of Jerry Jeff Walker" (featuring a cameo vocal by the beloved Texas cult hero himself) and the hagiographic "Johnny Cash Junkie (Buck Owens Freak)" acknowledge the duo's enormous debt to their country-rock forebears. Elsewhere, ballads like "Proud of the House We Built," "American Dreamers," and "Cowgirls Don't Cry" fit nicely against more revved up honky tonkers like "Drunk On Love" and the rollicking title track. The closing number "God Must Be Busy" caps off COWBOY TOWN with an atypically thoughtful and subtly political song about the state of the union circa 2007 that's far from jingoistic blather, proving yet again that Brooks and Dunn are no ordinary country boys.

Entertainment Weekly (p.73) - "[T]heir muscular riffs and handsome vocal harmonies give the material a boot-scooting vibrancy..." -- Grade: B+

One of the most successful duos in country music history, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn were put together in the early 1990s by former Arista Nashville label boss Tim DuBois, who thought the two singer-songwriters' styles would complement each other. The duo's sound--a mix of country harmonies, pop, rock and honky-tonk--made them superstars in the '90s, where they dominated the Vocal Duo category at every awards show. After two decades of success, both with the critics and on the charts, the duo broke up in 2009.

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