The Dynamic DUO

SO FAR, THIS YEAR’S BEEN ONE FOR THE BOOKS FOR BROOKS & DUNN. IN APRIL, THEY released their first album together in 12 years. In March, they were inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame. And in August, that Hall of Fame and Museum opened a Brooks & Dunn exhibit to celebrate their nearly 30-year reign as country music’s best-selling duo. It’s the kind of feat Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn never saw coming.

One of the duo’s first hits from the early 1990s—“Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” inspired by the Tulsa City Limits nightclub—paints a picture of guys who hit the door running when it’s quittin’ time. But if you ask Brooks or Dunn, there’s no such thing as quittin’ time.

Right after their Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Brooks & Dunn sat down with in a dressing room right outside the revered rotunda