Track Listing 1. Play Something Country 2. She's About as Lonely as I'm Going to Let Her Get 3. My Heart's Not a Hotel 4. Whiskey Do My Talkin' 5. Hillbilly Deluxe 6. One More Roll of the Dice 7. Just Another Neon Night 8. Believe 9. Building Bridges 10. Her West Was Wilder 11. I May Get Over You 12. She Likes to Get Out of Town 13. Again
| Details | | Producer: | Kix Brooks, Mark Wright, Ronnie Dunn, Tom Shapiro, Tony Brown | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Brooks & Dunn: Kix Brooks (vocals, harmonica); Ronnie Dunn (vocals). Additional personnel include: Bryan Sutton (acoustic guitar, banjo); Kenny Greenberg (electric guitar, National guitar); J.T. Corenflos (electric guitar); Dan Dugmore (steel guitar); Stuart Duncan (mandolin); Hank Singer (fiddle); Glenn Worf, Michael Rhodes (bass guitar); Eddie Bayers Jr. (drums); Eric Darken (percussion). Thanks to the newfound success of "real" country singers like Gretchen Wilson and Toby Keith, not to mention the neo-outlaw duo Big & Rich, Brooks & Dunn return to their Nashville roots on HILLBILLY DELUXE. After a string of increasingly pop-oriented albums, the change does them good. The first single, "Play Something Country," could be the best jukebox song since Alan Jackson's early-1990s hit "Don't Rock the Jukebox." From that opening track onwards, Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks stick to the basics: broken hearts ("Her West Was Wilder" and "I May Never Get Over You") and broken bottles (on the tough-guy "Whiskey Do My Talkin'" and the celebratory "Just Another Neon Night"). They don't abandon their rock flirtations entirely--Sheryl Crow drops by on "Building Bridges," and the stomping title track edges towards Big & Rich territory --but HILLBILLY DELUXE is the most purely country album Brooks & Dunn have released since 1993's HARD WORKIN' MAN, and it's one of their most entertaining ever.
Editorial Reviews ...{P]erfectly-drawn vignettes of Saturday-night sin and swagger....[Reinforces Brooks & Dunn's position as the premier practitioners of the sawdust serenade. - Grade: A- Entertainment Weekly
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