A Look At Last Year
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More
than 800,000 fans turned
out
for the shows, which grossed more than $33 million.
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Listen to Forever
Love
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With the excitement of
the new single, two new
albums and such unheard-of
special bonuses, there's
more where that comes
from, via what these three
artists also have
to deliver -- their upcoming summer
tour, which promises
to be even more thrilling than last
year's. Their enormously
successful 1997
co-headlining tour
has been called the highest-grossing
country tour in history.
More than 800,000 fans turned
out for the shows,
which grossed more than $33
million. The tour
featured 80 tons of equipment, 18
tractor trailers,
10 buses and an 88-person crew (plus
an extra 100 crew
members hired in each market).
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More specific details
of this
year's
tour will soon be
announced. Until
then, one
can only bet
the results will
be breathtaking.
Both Brooks
and Dunn
and Reba assure us of
that.
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"The production itself and
the new stage and
everything is all new," explains
Ronnie. "We always
try to make it fresh and new.
Some of the new songs,
we don't know just yet how
they will work, but
we'll come out and do some
together (with Reba).
And we're going to end up doing
the new single together,
obviously."
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"Sure, we'll be singing
this song together as much as
possible," Reba adds.
"I think it's a great song. It's a
career song! It's
a song that I've been waiting on all my
life, and to get to
sing it with superstars is just the icing
on the cake."
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"Oh, she's working
it now," chuckles Ronnie at Reba's
flattering comment.
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"What is it you want
anyway -- just come out and say
it?" Kix chimes in
laughing.
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The double-dynamic
tour is slated to carry through
1999, and will feature
the talented Terri Clark and
David Kersh as opening
acts. Once again, Reba and
Brooks ? Dunn will
alternate in the headlining spot
each night. With rare
artistic flexibility, these three
superstars last year
proved that all ego games and star
trips could be easily
set aside as they merged their
massive touring organizations
and took turns being
each other's opening
act. A simple flip of the coin
seemed to be the best
solution and will possibly be the
deciding ticket again
this year. The coin flip between
the two acts determined
who would open in what city.
"After a month or
so," jokes Ronnie, who like Kix, has
become good friends
with Reba and her
husband/manager Narvel
Blackstock, "the only
argument we had was
over who'd go on last. We both
wanted to be the opening
act!"
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While last year's
Reba/Brooks and Dunn tour, which covered a whopping 85
cities, showcased
the artists in a unique in-the-round stage
setting, this year's
summer-to-winter music-fest
promises even more
bells and whistles than ever.
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"I think the fun thing
for the
fans who come out
and see
the show is that they're
going to get a bunch of big
stuff," explains Kix,
" a lot of bells and whistles and
lights, camera and
action. And that's fun for us, too.
We try to lean on
the music, hopefully, foremost, but
there will be a big
show and it won't be the same one
they saw last year."
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Reba, who's recently
nailed a highly successful tour
stint in Australia,
where she's also unveiled a rare
Australian-released-only
album of greatest hits, is
equally excited about
hitting the stage again with her
two tour buddies.
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"The song, the album
and everything is just very
exciting," she admits,
"so we're just ready to rock and
get out there again!"
Listen to Forever
Love
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