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Kix Brooks on Leaving ‘American Country Countdown,’ a New Brooks & Dunn LP and He & Ronnie Being in ‘The Best Place We’ve Ever Been’


Brooks & Dunn's Kix Brooks talks leaving American Country Countdown and the possibility of a new Brooks and Dunn album.

The pair also gave a passionate performance (alongside ubiquitous country hitmaker Jelly Roll) of “Believe,” a song featured on the duo’s November collaboration album Reboot II. But this year, we worked hard, and I wasn’t sheepish about taking our chair at the awards and feeling like we’d earned our spot. People that listen to the same 15 songs on a mainstream country radio station, they say everything sounds the same: there’s a rhyme scheme, there’s a melody, there’s things that go on that get hot, and it’s always been that way.

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