BROOKS & DUNN HONKY TONK NEW YORK
Hardcore Irving Plaza Gets the Hillbilly Deluxe Treatment Nov. 10

New York City: They know and understand you "Can't Take The Honky Tonk Out of the Girl," the merits of a "Hillbilly Deluxe" and the jettisoning trajectory that comes from the mandate to "Play Something Country," so it's no wonder Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks -- heading to New York for the swirl and whirl around the "39th Annual Country Music Association Awards," which they're hosting for the second year - have decided to kick up a little jukejoint dust to blow out the carbs. Rolling into Irving Plaza with a leaner, meaner stage, the duo no less than The Village Voice has deemed "the Mick and Keith of Country Music" are ready to rock Irving Plaza hard on Nov. 10th.

"We did a straight-up bar gig at Cain's Ballroom in Tulsa," Ronnie Dunn says, of the high temple of hard country, Western swing and honky tonk, "and it felt pretty good to just strip it back and crank it up. We figured you can't

impress New Yorkers with giant blow up dolls, but they'll know a great band when they one -- and our guys are the very best! So we're gonna lead with the music.and let it rock"

"Anybody can play a big room in New York," Kix Brooks continues with a wry, sly laugh, "but it's when you get up there with nowhere to hide that you prove yourself. We're just a great big ole honky tonk band -- and we wanna see if those New Yorkers can throw down as hard as we think they can. I mean, blowing it up in a honky tonk manner is a whole different skill set. So, we're gonna see how some of those hardcore New Yorkers can hang, because it's a whole lot of fun if you do it."

With "Play Something Country" and Hillbilly Deluxe both topping their respective Country Singles and Album Charts, Brooks & Dunn are in full-rut and still raging. Having set the standard for high impact country music that mines the overlap between Waylon Jennings and ZZ Top -- their Deuce's Wild Tour with special guests Big & Rich and the Warren Brothers outdrew even their award-winning Neon Circus + Wild West Shows, which have featured no less than Toby Keith, keith urban, Dwight Yoakam, Rascal Flatts and Montgomery Gentry over the years -- these 4-time Entertainers of the Year know how to show people a good time and get rowdy doing it.

In addition to hosting this years "CMA Awards," broadcast live Nov. 15th on CBS, Brooks & Dunn will be part of a very special panel on Nov. 8th at the Museum of Radio & Television -- to discuss mainstream television's impact on the genre and donate the collected CMA Awards telecasts to the archives. As "Believe," the hushed witness of the cross-generational impact the unnoticed generosity of moments can bring arrives at country radio -- a single that is

being hailed as Ronnie Dunn's most emotionally powerful and compelling performance from a man Entertainment Weekly called "easily country's best male vocalist,"  Brooks & Dunn take on the night and the streets of New York, one little venue at a time.