It's two hardworking men doing the repetitive grunt work of rehearsing with their band.
Showmanship comes later.
We want them to see that we're really hungry and we love what we do. As often as we fail to achieve it, we're really perfectionists. We're shooting as high as we can go.'' To that end, their tour, which plays San Bernadino, Mountain View and Sacramento in California this weekend, is a festival featuring a comedian, circus acts and opening acts Toby Keith, Montgomery Gentry and keith urban. It's the first sign that taking seven months to record the album, instead of doing it in a couple of months between tour dates, is paying off. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn were struggling solo artists until record executive Tim DuBois urged them to join forces in 1990.