Tight Rope
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Tight Rope
Tight Rope is the sixth studio album by country duo Brooks & Dunn, released in 1999 on Arista Nashville. Their least successful album commercially, it was the first studio album of their career not to receive platinum certification from the RIAA; furthermore, only one of its three singles reached Top Ten on the country charts. The album's lead-off single was a cover of John Waite's 1984 single "Missing You". This cover peaked at #15 on the Hot Country Songs charts. Following it were the #19 "Beer Thirty" and the #5 "You'll Always Be Loved by Me". "Goin' Under Gettin' Over You" also reached #60 from unsolicited play as an album cut.
Due to its poor performance, none of the album's material features on any of the band's compilation albums.-Wikipedia
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My Kind of Country
This really is an album of two halves. Not only did Kix and Ronnie divide the vocal leads fairly evenly, they contributed six songs each as writers, each singing lead on his own songs. As a whole the album sounds their most pop-influenced to date.
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All Music
the really strange thing about Tight Rope is how the alternation between a Brooks song and a Dunn song feels like two solo albums pieced together, which is something that's never happened before. That these pieces are musically in line with the duo's previous efforts only hammers home the fact that this record is competent, occasionally enjoyable, but not particularly inspired.
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Country Standard Time
Brooks & Dunn seem to have settled into a hard-edged, country-rock groove that, when applied to winning material like "Goin' Under Gettin' Over You" or "Too Far This Time," is surprisingly satisfying, at least in small, radio-sized doses. There are a few other sounds sprinkled through the album - a tinge of rhythm and blues in the wispy "Hurt Train," and a couple of ballads like Brooks' "I Love You More" - but for better or for worse, no real surprises.
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