{"id":1306958,"date":"2019-03-26T15:10:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1804385"},"modified":"2019-03-26T15:10:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T21:10:06","slug":"brooks-and-dunn-talk-life-on-the-hillbilly-treadmill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/brooks-and-dunn-talk-life-on-the-hillbilly-treadmill\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks and Dunn Talk Life on the \u201cHillbilly Treadmill\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:670627?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/stephenss\/\" title=\"Posts by Samantha Stephens\" rel=\"author\">Samantha Stephens<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">18m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>The year 2009 was a sad one for Brooks and Dunn fans (including us) as the Grammy winners performed their farewell concert in Bridgestone Arena as a duo.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it didn\u2019t quite feel like the end for the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and fortunately, it wasn\u2019t. Both Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn embarked on solo ventures, Ronnie in music and Kix in wine and TV, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>But what else were they <em>really<\/em> up to during that break they took after they briefly parted ways? Their answers were as hilarious as they were heartwarming and understandable, as you\u2019ll see in the video below.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s probably the longest extended time either one of us had had to deal with real life,\u201d Ronnie Dunn told CMT.com in an exclusive sit-down chat.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/embed\/mgid:arc:video:cmt.com:74975e88-6a58-47b6-904e-c8b2afc6e12a\">media.mtvnservices.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"> <\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI learned how to take orders from my wife, not that I never did,\u201d he added. \u201cBut I was just never there enough to get under the regimen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI learned how to sit for extended periods of time and go \u2019I understand, honey, yes. I\u2019m listening,&#8217;\u201d he said, which naturally sent his musical partner Kix Brooks into hysterics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was a good break for both of us, you know?\u201d Brooks chimed in on a more serious note.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s stuff you want to do, and when you are on the \u2019hillbilly treadmill,\u2019 there\u2019s really no time. There wasn\u2019t any time off for us. We went twenty years without stopping. We were blessed with our first four singles going number one, which all of sudden you\u2019re on the rocket ship then,\u201d he revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen you get great crews and a great band put together, and you can afford to do the things you always wanted to do as a career. in order to keep \u2019em, you keep going,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can stop, but then you\u2019ve got to start over. We never wanted to because we never believed it was going to go to the next month, much less the next ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, twenty, Kix, to be exact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt maybe could have been the end, but we never said it was. To each other, we never said it was,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>And they mean it, too. In addition to their Vegas residency and this glorious, forthcoming new duets album <em>Reboot<\/em>, the duo had this to say when asked about the possibility of brand-new music in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re always writing,\u201d Dunn revealed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNever say never about nothin\u2019,\u201d Brooks said with a cheeky expression.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re holding you to that one, Kix.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reboot<\/em>, a reimagining\/re-recording of Brooks and Dunn\u2019s biggest hits features collaborations with Ashley McBryde, Kacey Musgraves, Jon Pardi, LANCO and more, and hits shelves April 5.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author\">\n<div class=\"description\">Samantha is a country radio insider with a deep love for the music and its stars. She can often be found on a red carpet or at a late-night guitar pull.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1804385\/brooks-and-dunn-talk-life-on-the-hillbilly-treadmill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Samantha Stephens 18m ago The year 2009 was a sad one for Brooks and Dunn fans (including us) as the Grammy winners performed their farewell concert in Bridgestone Arena as a duo. Still, it didn\u2019t quite feel like the end for the newest members of the Country Music Hall of Fame, and fortunately, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1306958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 00:40:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1306958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1306958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1306958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1306958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1306958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}