Cowboy Town
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Cowboy Town
Cowboy Town is the tenth studio album by country music duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 2007 (see 2007 in country music) by Arista Nashville and their most recent album of original material. Produced by the duo and Tony Brown, the album has accounted for four Top 20 country singles on the Billboard country singles charts: "Proud of the House We Built," "God Must Be Busy," "Put a Girl in It," and "Cowgirls Don't Cry." The album debuted at #13 on the Billboard albums chart, selling 68,900 copies in the first week of release. To date it has sold over 400,000 copies.-"Wikipedia"
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My Kind of Country
What we get here is a sort of mini EP from Ronnie Dunn and then from Kix Brooks, with both halves produced by Tony Brown this time out. I think it’s a sign of the music to come from both as solo artists, and even though it doesn’t hold up as a cohesive unit, Cowboy Town is one of the duo’s best albums in terms of song quality, vocals, and diversity.
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BBC
With Brooks and Dunn both in their fifties, neither is very likely to become the new Bonnie Prince Billy, but nevertheless Cowboy Town does show at times that country artists can offer more than just a soundtrack for redneck truckers on their way down to the rodeo, while at the same time sticking to a traditional, stereotypical style enough to keep their core audience happy.
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Country Universe
Cowboy Town shows both an aging formula and the potential for some new musical directions to shake things up for Brooks & Dunn.
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All Music
Brooks & Dunn have always teetered between being just a bit too commercial and thoroughly country, but this is one of their efforts where the seesaw tips toward one direction definitively, as this album is as oversized as Texas without sounding a lick like the Lonestar State.
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Pop Matters
It’s effectively country’s answer to “Stay Fly”, and they pulled it off without a Cowboy Troy guest verse. If the five tracks that precede it and the six that come after were half as good, this would be a career-record. They’re not, and it’s not. That’s just the way it goes. But it’s nevertheless nice to know that, in 2007, Brooks & Dunn are still capable of blowing me away.
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