Hard Workin' Man

Performer: Brooks & Dunn
Artist: Jim Messina; Dennis Wilson
Engineer: Mike Bradley
Producer: Don Cook
Distributor: BMG Special Products

Notes: Brooks & Dunn: Kix Brooks, Ronnie Dunn (vocals) Additional personnel includes: Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar, mandolin); Danny Parks (acoustic guitar); Danny McBride, Brent Mason (electric guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); John Barlow Jarvis (piano, organ); Glenn Worf (bass); Lonnie Wilson (drums); Jimmy Gunn (cabasa); Jim Messina, Dennis Wilson (background vocals). Recorded at Soundshop Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee. Whether celebrating their blue collar roots, crying them honky tonk blues or living it up while living her down, Brooks & Dunn epitomize the power of modern country pop. Following up on the enthusiastic reception which greeted their debut album BRAND NEW MAN, Brooks & Dunn's HARD WORKIN' MAN is a heady musical mix of whiskey-soaked country ("Heartbroke Out Of My Mind"), western swing ("Texas Women [Don't Stay Lonely Long]"), border town boogie ("Mexican Minutes") and country rock a la Creedence Clearwater ("We'll Burn That Bridge," "Rock My World [Little Country Girl]"). But it is on sorrowful confessionals like their ballads "I Can't Put Out This Fire" and "She Used To Be Mine" that Brooks & Dunn cement their burgeoning reputation for a classic country touch. The spine label for this CD, BROOKS & DUNN 2, is not the name of this album. "Hard Workin' Man" won the 1994 Grammy Award for "Country Duo or Group With Vocal."

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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