Brooks and Dunn are Done

[David Paleg]

Brooks & Dunn call it quits after 20 years

Aug 10, 7:57 PM (ET)

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Brooks & Dunn are done.

The best-selling country duo posted a message on its Web site Monday
saying they've agreed to "call it a day" after 20 years of making music
together.

"This ride has been everything and more than we could ever have dreamed
... We owe it all to you, the fans," Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn said in
the message. "If you hear rumors, don't believe them, it's just time."

Brooks & Dunn will release a greatest-hits album on Sept. 8 and tour one
last time in 2010.

The duo's many hits include "Boot Scootin' Boogie,""My Maria,""Red Dirt
Road" and "Cowgirls Don't Cry" with Reba McEntire.

Their label, Arista Nashville, said the group has sold more than 30
million albums.

Brooks, 54, and Dunn, 56, were struggling solo artists when Arista's Tim
DuBois urged them to join forces in 1990. Together they've scored 23 No. 1
hits.

They've recorded 10 studio albums, the latest 2007's "Cowboy Town."

The pair steeped themselves in the mythical West (their emblem is a
sun-bleached steer's skull) and rode the charts with a driving honky-tonk
sound. They took a turn with 2003's "Red Dirt Road" and often pay homage
to their classic rock influences, including playing shows with the Rolling
Stones and ZZ Top.

Brooks & Dunn won the Country Music Association's vocal duo of the year
award every year between 1992 and 2006, except for 2000.

The CMA named them entertainer of the year in 1996.

[Jet Black]

Suddenly, Skyler, Knowbloch & Overstreet see their big opening for a comeback.

[cgarison]

Suddenly, Skyler, Knowbloch & Overstreet see their big opening for a comeback.

You mean Schuyler, Knobloch & Bickhardt a.k.a. S-K-B? Paul Overstreet left the band in 1987 at an attempt for a solo career.

(Whoa. Way to geeky on the country music stuff. Not a good moment for a "child" of the 80s.)

[Jet Black]

Lighten up, Jeepy. This ain't the Star Trek message board.

[Scott Reppert]

I never knew Hubie played with Adam...

[cgarison]

Lighten up, Jeepy. This ain't the Star Trek message board.

Me? Star Trek? Nah.

That would be the gal that will (with 99% likelyhood) be "Mrs. Jeepy, Ph.D." next year.

[Jet Black]

She doesn't live in a box, does she? Because frankly, we on this board have been there, done that.

[cgarison]

No. She lives in a condo close to Valley Forge. One could call it a box, but not like Edna's box.

She has not seen The Compound in KY or met my mother. And I expect no issues because she was a professor at Northern KY University and grew up in Houston although she was in a NASA community and not in the country with pickup trucks, cowboy boots and horses. Dare I say she grew up around "Space Cowboys".

Yep. I gots me a winner.

[genlock]

Your'e not talking about the "Diaper-Naut" are you?

[cgarison]

Oh. No.

[Scott Reppert]

I have actually had phone calls inquiring about Edna...

[cgarison]

I have actually had phone calls inquiring about Edna...

In the box or on the ball field?

[Greg Goodfellow]

Tell 'Edna' that we miss her, Scott. Did we cross the 'creepy' line, or did some other board give her a better deal?

[Hoosier Daddy]

Edna doesn't like us. Never did.

[cgarison]

Had a whoopsy yesterday. Mom informed my grandmother of my "serious" girlfriend. I have 20 voice mails on my cell phone.

Now I will be bringing her to Wayne Co.

[genlock]

Take her to Crum first.

[cgarison]

I was thinking of starting from Kermit after driving her through Lovely, Beauty and Warfield in Kentucky.

Crum is just a few miles north of that and on the right path to Rt. 75 to show her the spot of the Marshall plane crash as we head to Lavalette. And I know 152 through Wayne is shorter, but what is the fun in that.