Brooks & Dunn: ‘Excited To Turn This One Loose’
Brooks & Dunn release their Reboot II album tomorrow (11/15), and the guys are quite excited about the new batch of artists they got to cover their songs this time around.
Kix Brooks told us in a recent interview, “Well, one day our manager showed up, and he said, ‘Guys, I think we could do this reboot thing again,’ and I’m not sure how Ronnie felt about it, but I’m like, ‘We already did that, right?’ I think we both come from the school of, we don’t want this thing to be tired. We’re not just trying to do the same thing over again, and honestly, that was real different for us doing the Reboot I album. There were some neat takes on it, Kacey Musgraves certainly did a very different version of ‘Neon Moon,’ but for the most part, you know, we just kind of strayed, blurred the edges a little bit, I guess, for lack of a better way of saying it. I got a feeling Ronnie feels the same way I do, when we went into this. It’s like, man, let’s turn this thing loose.”
He continued, “Let’s let these guys really do what they do. If they want to do their own producers because [producer] Dan Huff did a good job of kind of helping keep the first one very organized. We needed that help. And sure enough, everybody liked it. It’s different, you know, a group this time for the most part, Jelly Roll, Lainey, Marcus King, and some real, kind of out of bounds, cool Kingfish [blues artist Christone “Kingfish” Ingram] come over from Memphis. Brought his soul. And Jerry Douglas, bluegrass [artist]. There’s everything, some really hardcore rock stuff on here. You know Hardy’s not going to settle down at this point. Yeah. He came screaming into it, and it’s really it’s all over the place, but really fun just unleashed frickin creativity.”
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Ronnie adds, “You know you’re not you’re just going to go, oh well, that’s that’s the ‘Hard Working Man,’ okay. That’s ‘Boot Scootin’ Boogie,’ wait until you hear this. I mean for me, and I think you feel the same way, this is the most fun project and everybody says it, but I mean it. This is the most fun project we ever we’ve ever done for sure. Dan Huff smoked it from everything. The way the record sounds to the artist, just on and on. It’s cool. We’re excited to turn this one loose.”
Reboot 2 Track List
- Play Something Country (with Lainey Wilson)
- Neon Moon (with Morgan Wallen)
- Rock My World (Little Country Girl) (with Marcus King Band)
- Ain’t Nothing ‘Bout You (with Megan Moroney)
- Brand New Man (with Warren Zeiders)
- Believe (with Jelly Roll)
- She Used to Be Mine (with Riley Green)
- She Likes to Get Out of Town (with The Cadillac Three)
- Boot Scootin’ Boogie (with Halestorm)
- That Ain’t No Way to Go (with Mitchell Tenpenny)
- How Long Gone (with The Earls of Leicester)
- I’ll Never Forgive My Heart (with Jake Worthington)
- She’s Not the Cheatin’ Kind (with Hailey Whitters)
- Hard Workin’ Man (with Christone ”Kingfish” Ingram)
- Hillbilly Deluxe (with Hardy)
- Indian Summer (with Ernest)
- Drop in the Bucket (with A Thousand Horses)
- Only in America (with Corey Kent)
