Brooks & Dunn News

Brooks & Dunn: Out of new ideas after 20 years

Aug 13, 2009 4:00 am PDT

Brooks & Dunn decided to call it quits after they realized they'd begun to run out of ideas after 20 years of making hit country music together. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn talked about their parting Wednesday during a taping of Country Mu...

Country duo Brooks & Dunn to break up

Aug 10, 2009 7:00 pm PDT

Country music duo Brooks & Dunn, whose honky-tonk bravado catapulted them to the top of the charts for almost two decades, said on Monday they would break up after a farewell tour next year. Singer/guitarists Kix Brooks, 54, and Ronnie Du...

US country artists try to build their base abroad

Jun 8, 2009 3:00 am PDT

Dierks Bentley and his band recently jetted to Australia to open six shows for Brooks & Dunn, playing to more than 10,000 people a night in the country's largest cities. And yet Bentley, a headlining act in the U.S. with a half dozen No. ...

Kix Brooks to honor fallen soldier on Memorial Day

May 22, 2009 2:36 am PDT

Kix Brooks of the hit duo Brooks & Dunn has visited the dusty military bases in Iraq and Kuwait, seen the armored vehicles and the big transport planes and talked with the men and women in uniform. None of it left as deep of an impressio...

Gill, Matthews, Seger perform on Little Feat CD

Aug 25, 2008 12:00 pm PDT

Vince Gill didn't need coaxing to record tracks for a new CD featuring classics by influential '70s group Little Feat. "Since I was about 18 or 19 they've been my favorite band," Gill told The Associated Press recently. Gill joined Dave ...