9 November 2005
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Where The Square Has No Name --
Brooks & Dunn Brings Hillbilly Deluxe To The Marquis@ Madison Square Garden

   New York City: Having rocked Irving Plaza as only Brooks & Dunn can, it makes sense the 4-time Entertainers of the Year would want to leap a tall building in a single bound. But given that the honky tonk superheroes also wanted to sport their guitars while doing it, Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks have settled for the next best thing: playing the marquis at Madison Square Garden, where the 30-million-record-sellers and their great big band are gonna tie up traffic and give Times Square the full-tilt juke joint treatment.

   "Yeah, it's been done before? U2 did it in Los Angeles?," admits rafter-burning vocalist Ronnie Dunn. "But ours will be among the first pair of cowboy boots to scoot across Miss Maddy's Derby. Kix and I promise to be gentle? I just hope the old girl like cowboys!"

   "Hey, we've played some crazy places before," says the low-flying Kix Brooks, with a wry look. "And in terms of crowds, this one is just gonna make the notion of honky tonk a bit more literal. If you're gonna be in New York City and you wanna really bring the music, take it to the streets - it's where the people are, and that's what we want: your people!"

   The impromptu commuter concert by the pair no less than The Village Voice called "the Mick and Keith of country music" kicks off at 11:30 on Monday, Nov. 14th -- and will no doubt give the Big Apple the kind of big time, bigger guitar rock-your-world reality that comes straight out of the beer bars and roadhouses of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana and beyond.

   Certainly the hosts of "The 39th Annual Country Music Association Awards" are feeling plenty enough at home at Madison Square Garden to climb up on top and plug in. With their "Play Something Country" just topping the radio singles' charts and their full-tilt Hillbilly Deluxe debuting at #1 on Billboards Country Albums chart, their feeling their oats and ready to do some sowing. With their personal brand of high impact country that works the common ground between ZZ Top and Waylon Jennings, the pair who've brought America three Neon Circus & Wild West Shows, not to mention this year's wildly successful Deuces Wild Tour with Big & Rich and the Warren Brothers, aren't afraid to scale a mountain -- or a marquis.

   In addition to hosting this years "CMA Awards," broadcast live Nov. 15th on CBS, the boys who know how to burn down a Saturday night have just released "Believe," the powerful song of faith's transformative powers in the face of cross-generational exposure. Already hailed as Ronnie Dunn's most emotionally powerful and compelling performance from a man Entertainment Weekly called "easily country's best male vocalist," Brooks & Dunn take on the night and the streets of New York, one little venue at a time.

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