Brooks & Dunn -- Greatest Hits Collection
If you have seen my Country Favorites Section in the Cantina, you know that Brooks & Dunn is my favorite vocal duo. I loved there first release Brand New Man off their first album, Brand New Man, back in 1991 which they followed up with Boot Scootin’ Boogie and Neon Moon. Nearly two years later, the Hard Workin’ Man album was released and included Rock My World Little County Girl, Hard Workin’ Man, That Ain’t No Way To Go and a dance re-mix of the very popular Boot Scootin’ Boogie. In 1994, Waitin’ On Sundown, (in my opinion the best of their albums at that time) with Little Miss Honk Tonk, She’s Not The Cheatin’ Kind and You’re Gonna Miss Me When I’m Gone. Then in 1996, they cranked out yet another great album, Borderline. This album features My Maria, A Man This Lonely, Mama Don’t Get Dress Up For Nothing and I Am That Man. Every album they have released has been better than their previous.
There was a time when a Greatest Hits album, was just that, previous hits. Then suddenly artists decided that could get more sales by luring in their fans by placing new releases on their Greatest Hits albums. B&D placed three previously unreleased cuts on this album, which contains 19 cuts (5 from Brand New Man, 5 from Hard Workin’ Man. 4 from Waitin’ On Sundown, 2 from Borderline and 3 new releases). Honk Tonk Truth, the first release is okay, but it just does not seem like something B&D would do. Then there is He’s Got You, which for the longest time I had no idea was B&D. I just kept hearing it played on the radio and kept thinking this is great, almost sounds like B&D. Finally, Days of Thunder which has yet to be released and a very interesting song. It starts out with a bass guitar solo, sort like an old Rock ‘n Roll song and then moves into the traditional (if there is such a thing) B&D style.
If you don’t have a multi-disc player so you can play all your B&D favorites from the other four albums at once, or you want all your B&D favorites in one place, or even if you love B&D, but don’t have all of their albums, this is worth buying. Not only do you get 16 favorites, but the 3 new releases, all for one low price.
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