It was the country music equivalent of a sonic boom – a sound so bold, so different and so powerful it sent shock waves throughout country radio and up the charts. That sound was “Brand New Man,” the chart-topping debut single that heralded the highoctane arrival of Brooks & Dunn in 1991. Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn came out with musical guns blazing and in the years since have become the most successful duo in the history of country music.

Brooks & Dunn’s creative journey unfolds on #1s …and then some, a sweeping 30- song set that includes such chart-topping hits as “Neon Moon,” “My Next Broken Heart,” “Husbands and Wives,” “Ain’t Nothing ‘Bout You,” “Only in America” and “Red Dirt Road.” The collection also includes the fast-climbing new single “Honky Tonk Stomp,” a swampy anthem that features Billy Gibbons, and “Indian Summer,” a picturesque coming-of-age tale about young love and consequences.

“We were playing at a fair and I just remember looking out behind it and there was a wheat field out there. It all came together in my head. I just started thinking this little adventure story about a girl who got hooked up with a football player,” recalls Brooks, who enlisted Bob DiPiero and Dunn to help finish the tune.