Whereas The Raybon Brothers and The Kinleys formed on their own, Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn were put together with the thought that they would work well together as songwriters and as a duo. One issue that sibling bands and duos face is not having enough vocal range and sounding too similar to one another. Both of these competing duos had an obvious similarity: they were siblings. The other duo to compete with was The Raybon Brothers who won the Grammy for Best Country Song for their cover of “Butterfly Kisses”. Brooks & Dunn also won Vocal Duo of the Year from the Country Music Association for the sixth year in a row after The Judds win in 1991.
The Kinleys were twin sisters who won Top New Vocal Duo or Group the same year Brooks & Dunn won Top Vocal Duo or Group from the Academy of Country Music. However, as far as successful duos, the only competition was The Kinleys and The Raybon Brothers. Of course there were bands such as Alabama, Lonestar, and Diamond Rio that hit the charts. The year 1997 was dominated primarily by solo artists. It was a mixture of their separate but together songwriting and their exciting performances that later led them to become the highest selling duo in country music for years to come. Rather, they both collaborated separately with other songwriters the majority of the time. And even though both were excellent songwriters and wrote “Brand New Man” as their first number one together, they did not write several of their songs together. It was when the former head of record label Arista Nashville, Tim DuBois, introduced the two to each other and signed them as a duo that their careers began to take off.
Both, at the time, were dwindling as solo artists and only playing local venues. Brooks & Dunn were unlike most duos in the sense that the two were put together rather than forming on their own and were not siblings.
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