History Trivia / BrooksAndDunn

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Brooks revealed that the failure of the ''Tight Rope'' album also led to them splitting in 2000, until a label exec persuaded them to stay together while pitching them a song. That song? "Ain't Nothing 'bout You", which launched a major comeback for them in 2001.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Sunday Money", a tribute to UsefulNotes/DaleEarnhardt. It was originally performed at a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LT3ugdXB4 1993 awards banquet]], and later released (with one verse removed) on a promotional disc sold at Mobil stations in 1998.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: "Sunday Money", a tribute to Creator/DaleEarnhardt. It was originally performed at a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0LT3ugdXB4 1993 awards banquet]], and later released (with one verse removed) on a promotional disc sold at Mobil stations in 1998.

* ReclusiveArtist: There is very little on B & D's personal lives. It's known that Ronnie's been married to Janine Dunn for 20-plus years, but almost nothing is known about her besides that she co-wrote "I'll Never Forgive My Heart". It's also said that Kix and Ronnie rarely interacted outside their concerts, except to have a shot of whiskey together before each show.

* HeAlsoDid: Dunn has co-written songs for Wade Hayes, David Kersh, Shenandoah ("Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)"), and Music/RebaMcEntire ("I Keep On Loving You"). He has also sung guest vocals on singles by Lee Roy Parnell and Ashley Monroe.

* TheRedStapler: "Boot Scootin' Boogie", a song about line-dancing, sparked a renewed interest in line-dancing that lasted well into the late 1990s. The craze even inspired another song which lampshaded the sudden increase — Shenandoah's "If Bubba Can Dance (I Can Too)", which was inspired by a comment that one of the writers made after seeing a commercial for line-dancing lessons.

* FollowTheLeader: Once Brooks & Dunn got hot, the market was suddenly flooded with singer-songwriter duos who were paired willy-nilly by record execs. None of them went anywhere. For all of the 1990s, Brooks & Dunn was untouchable in the Duo category; if any country music award had "Duo" in the name, it invariably went to them (except in 2000 when Montgomery Gentry, who were brand-new at the time, got a Duo of the Year award). Even the few duos that weren't manufactured by record execs (see above) never seemed to catch on — literally no other duo had so much as a Top 5 hit for most of Brooks & Dunn's tenure, so absolutely no one was a threat until Music/{{Sugarland}} lost its third member in 2005 and suddenly caught momentum (only for them to trail off too).

* Dunn has co-written songs for Wade Hayes, David Kersh, Shenandoah ("Darned If I Don't (Danged If I Do)"), and Music/RebaMcEntire ("I Keep On Loving You"). He has also sung guest vocals on singles by Lee Roy Parnell and Ashley Monroe.

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* BlackSheepHit: Though mostly known for their honky-tonk sound, two of their biggest hits were a Latin-flavored cover of B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria" and the bombastic, pop-rock "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You". "Rock My World (Little Country Girl)" and "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" also stick out as the only big hits they had with Kix on lead vocals instead of Ronnie.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Ronnie's post-B&D career on Arista came to a quick halt when he and Arista executives clashed over "Let the Cowboy Rock". They apparently felt that his asking fans on Website/{{Facebook}} what the fourth single should be jeopardized the success of "Let the Cowboy Rock".

* Dunn has co-written songs for Wade Hayes, David Kersh and RebaMcEntire (the single "I Keep On Loving You"). He has also sung guest vocals on singles by Lee Roy Parnell and Ashley Monroe.

* BlackSheepHit: Though mostly known for their honky-tonk sound, two of their biggest hits were a Latin-flavored cover of B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria" and the bombastic, pop-rock "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You".

* OneHitWonder: Post-split, Ronnie Dunn became this with his Top 10 hit "Bleed Red". Kix Brooks, on the other hand, was closer to NoHitWonder.

* ExecutiveMeddling: Ronnie's post-B&D career on Arista came to a quick halt when he and Arista executives clashed over "Let the Cowboy Rock". They apparently felt that his asking fans on {{Facebook}} what the fourth single should be jeopardized the success of "Let the Cowboy Rock".

* ThrowItIn: Possibly the case with "Lucky Me, Lonely You", which has multiple false starts.

* ReclusiveArtist: There is very little on B & D's personal lives. It's known that Ronnie's been married to Janine Dunn for 20-plus years, but almost nothing is known about her besides that she co-wrote "I'll Never Forgive My Heart".

* BlackSheepHit: Though mostly known for their honky-tonk sound, their biggest hits were a Latin-flavored cover of B.W. Stevenson's "My Maria" and the bombastic, pop-rock "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You".

* FollowTheLeader: Once Brooks & Dunn got hot, the market was suddenly flooded with singer-songwriter duos who were paired willy-nilly by record execs. For all of the 1990s, it was a ForegoneConclusion that any award with "duo" in the name would automatically go to B & D. No duo posed a serious threat to Brooks & Dunn's fortunes until {{Sugarland}} got reduced to a duo and suddenly started having much more success.