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20 November 2005
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Brooks & Dunn's "Believe" Is Hot Shot at CMT!!!
Debuted on "39th Annual CMA Awards," Latest Single Catches Fire

   Nashville: After a searing performance of "Believe" -- featuring Grammy-winning guitarist/producer Randy Scruggs, Stevie Ray Vaughan vet B-3 man Reese Wynans and Steve Winwood/Shawn Colvin bassist Michael Rhodes, along with a gospel choir -- Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks knew they had struck a nerve with the American public. And that momentum continues at CMT: Country Music Television, as the 24-hour country network debuts the clip in Hot Shot rotation.

   "Trying to capture the song tricky," says Dunn, who co-wrote the revelatory song of faith and redemption extending beyond generations or life experience with Craig Wiseman. "The boy they cast was really magic; he captured it."

   Directed by Steve Lamar, the Deaton-Flanigen produced clip celebrated the basic human connections and their ability to transcend the obvious in the name of a higher truth. Shot in a faded, but fully color saturated tableau, it is the 4-time Entertainer of the Year's most populist clip since "Red Dirt Road" also merged the polaroids of common lives with the universal recognition of the truths that bind us together.

   "We may blow up stuff onstage -- and go for the gusto live," says Brooks, the whirling dervish with the low slung guitar, "but when the moment is right, we're the first ones to honor the song and the sentiment. This is a pretty special song, and I think when it came time to try and bring those sentiments to life, Steve, Robert and George really had a handle on what to do with this clip."

   Fresh from a #1 with the raucous honky tonk pound-down "Play Something Country" and the #1 Billboard Country Album debut for Hillbilly Deluxe, Ronnie and Kix are on a full-tilt boogie. Having just hosted their second Country Music Association Awards -- live from New York City's legendary Madison Square Garden - where they picked up their 13th Duo of the Year award, the men who've been deemed "the Mick & Keith of country music" by The Village Voice more than left their mark on Manhattan: having played both a no-nonsense set at downtown rock spot Irving Plaza and then becoming the first ever act to set-up, plug in and burn down the marquis at Madison Square Garden.

   "We're just having fun and seeing where the music will take us," says Brooks with a wry smile. "You know, Ronnie and I had some pretty diverse influences, and that's the beauty of what we've been able to do with this record. We can invoke Tom Petty or Gary Stewart, then we get pull it all back in and do something spiritual like "Believe" and then we get to make videos that bring these songs to life."

   With CMT adding the video in their aggressive "Hot Shot" rotation, it won't be long until America can plug into a deeper dimension of the song that had all of Madison Square Garden on their feet. Tune in -- and see.

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