Waitin' on Sundown (CD - 1994)

Additional personnel: Mark Casstevens (acoustic guitar); Bruce Bouton (steel guitar, lap steel); Brent Mason (electric guitar); Rob Hajacos (fiddle); John Jarvis (piano, B-3 organ); Glen Worf (bass); Lonnie Wilson (drums, percussion); Dennis Wilson, John Wesley Ryles, Harry Stinson, Bill LaBounty (background vocals).

Recorded at Soundshop Recording Studios, Nashville, Tennessee and Castle Recording Studios, Franklin, Tennessee.

"You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best Country Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal.

Waitin' on Sundown didn't depart from Brooks & Dunn's formula much, but the fans didn't mind -- it sold over three million albums anyway. By this point, the duo's albums have become a handful of solid singles -- this time out, they were "Little Miss Honky Tonk," "She's Not the Cheatin' Kind," and "You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone" -- surrounded by filler, but the hits will make the fans forgive the filler. ~ Thom Owens

As their hard-charging opening cut, "Little Miss Honky Tonk," makes amply clear, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have perfected a fresh, engaging new brand of roadhouse music with a Nashville spit shine. WAITIN' ON SUNDOWN reprises the hard driving, chicken fried sound that has made Brooks & Dunn among the most popular acts to burst on the country scene in recent memory.

With their canny blend of Southern rock, traditional country, and sh*t-kickin' Southwestern boogie, WAITIN' ON SUNDOWN promises to join Brooks & Dunn's two previous efforts on the top of the pop and country charts. The band's versatility is their strong suit. A song like "Silver And Gold" takes your basic cheatin'-heart, we've-gone-wrong country subtext and enlivens it with fat, Dire Straits-like production values, and Brooks & Dunn's distinctive vocal harmonies. "I'll Never Forgive My Heart" draws upon a traditional Conway Twitty "Hello, Darlin'"-style spoken intro for this nostalgic tale of self-recrimination and broken hearts.

Elsewhere, Brooks & Dunn celebrate the verities of hard drivin' ("A Few Good Rides Away," "My Kind Of Crazy"), hard drinkin' ("Whiskey Under The Bridge") and mornings after ("You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone"), generally enlivened by crunching Telecaster breaks and sweet pedal steel obligatos. The down home party reverie of WAITIN' ON SUNDOWN reflects the realities and aspirations of working men and women, their tensions and their hellbent release. That sense of celebration is what drives Brooks & Dunn's music.

As their hard-charging opening cut, "Little Miss Honky Tonk," makes amply clear, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have perfected a fresh, engaging new brand of roadhouse music with a Nashville spit shine. WAITIN' ON SUNDOWN reprises the hard driving, chicken fried sound that has made Brooks & Dunn among the most popular acts to burst on the country scene in recent memory.

With their canny blend of Southern rock, traditional country, and sh*t-kickin' Southwestern boogie, WAITIN' ON SUNDOWN promises to join Brooks & Dunn's two previous efforts on the top of the pop and country charts. The band's versatility is their strong suit. A song like "Silver And Gold" takes your basic cheatin'-heart, we've-gone-wrong country subtext and enlivens it with fat, Dire Straits-like production values, and Brooks & Dunn's distinctive vocal harmonies. "I'll Never Forgive My Heart" draws upon a traditional Conway Twitty "Hello, Darlin'"-style spoken intro for this nostalgic tale of self-recrimination and broken hearts.

Elsewhere, Brooks & Dunn celebrate the verities of hard drivin' ("A Few Good Rides Away," "My Kind Of Crazy"), hard drinkin' ("Whiskey Under The Bridge") and mornings after ("You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone"), generally enlivened by crunching Telecaster breaks and sweet pedal steel obligatos. The down home party reverie of WAITIN' ON SUNDOWN reflects the realities and aspirations of working men and women, their tensions and their hellbent release. That sense of celebration is what drives Brooks & Dunn's music. minimize