How Brooks And Dunn Changed Music History

How Brooks and Dunn changed music history. “Woohoo,” the crowd falls in applause by yet another one of Brooks and Dunn’s fantastic concerts. They are one of the best country duos of all time. Brooks and Dunn are extremely special for country music history, and fans adore them. When Brooks and Dunn met at Arista Records, they were both planning to have solo careers, but little did they know, they would earn so many achievements throughout the 1990's and the 2000's together. Brooks and Dunn both had their separate lives before they met. When Leon Eric Brooks was six he was playing the ukulele, and when he was in college he performed regularly at night clubs. After that, he traveled around the U.S. working on an Alaskan oil pipeline until

Johnny Horton was a popular country singer that lived not to far away from Brooks, who lived in Shreveport, Louisiana, and when he died Brooks began singing with his daughter at age twelve. Then he began singing solo at night clubs when he was in high school. (Freeland, 2004) Dunn’s father was a musician and his mother was a baptist and they both influenced Dunn a lot, but when Dunn went to college a dean told him to pick music or school, dunn picked music. One of the judges at the Talent contest Dunn won was Tim Dubois, who wanted Brooks and Dunn to play together so he introduced them in 1990; they had both been planning on solo careers, but they agreed to the partnership. (“Brooks and Dunn,” 2013) When they were together they made their first single “Brand New Man”. (Go rmly, 2010) Then in 1988 they wrote a solo album that debuted a dance hit “Boot Scootin’ Boogie”. (“Brooks and Dunn,”

Brooks is now going solo after he and Ronnie ended their duo in 2010, and he says he enjoys writing all year and making movies, and that he recorded around fifty songs for his next album. Brooks playing music in college helped him record almost fifty songs culling them down to twelve that were best for his album. (Price, 2003) Dunn's rich voice and understated guitar playing has given him potential that has helped him make twelve self-titled songs that cover plenty of ground but are still comfortably familiar.(G,