Reboot

After a recording hiatus lasting more than a decade, Brooks & Dunn—the Country Music Hall of Famers who\'ve inspired not only the genre\'s modern duo resurgence but everyone from Kacey Musgraves to Ashley McBryde—are back. And this time, they have a few friends in tow: As Lionel Richie and Ronnie Milsap did before them, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have enlisted artists generations younger on re-recordings of their classic songs with the likes of Luke Combs, Kane Brown, Musgraves, and McBryde. The R&B influence or cosmic cowgirl sounds of these contemporaries might not feel like a natural fit with Brooks & Dunn\'s neotrad stylings, but it all works seamlessly—whether it\'s capturing the honky-tonk spirit alongside Midland on \"Boot Scootin\' Boogie\" or getting funky with Thomas Rhett on \"My Maria.\" *Reboot* might be built on the past, but in these 12 collaborations, it paints a direct line straight to the present—and positions them to head into whatever sort of future they can conjure up.

Brooks & Dunn sat out much of the 2010s, playing a few shows in Vegas during the middle of the decade but otherwise sticking to the retirement they announced in 2009.