Kix Brooks Opens Up About Brooks & Dunn Split

Twenty successful years, twenty-six Academy of Country Music Awards, seventeen Country Music Association Awards, two Grammy's and over fifty Billborad singles, so why are they calling it quits? In a recent interview with Kix Brooks of Brooks & Dunn, he tells GAC the main reasons why he and Ronnie are parting ways.

Brooks says,"For a couple of hard heads like us to compromise ... you're constantly giving something up -- way more than you take from a relationship like that, no matter how successful it is. It's like he's  got his mind set on exactly what it is he wants to do, what he wants to sing, but Kix has this piece of real estate over here, and I've got to give him some of that. Twenty years we've been doin' that. That's a long time."
Before the two were paired up by an Arista industry executive, they were each pursuing solo careers, which is what they will most likely start up again.   "I'm the first one to say what a great singer Ronnie is," says Kix, "But hell, I was writing songs for 10 years before I ever met him, and had a lot going on ... He's had to do the exact same thing."
Brooks & Dunn will formally say goodbye to their country music fans with a farewell tour taking place early next year, and they will release a final album titled #1s and Then Some on September 8, 2009. You can also catch Brooks & Dunn's CMA Festival performance tonight on the ABC special.