#1's...And Then Some

A Great Collection From a Excellent Duo
When I found out about this 2 cd set I was counting down the days til it came out. I grabed it on release day..took it home and listened to it...I really enjoyed it very much. I was most excited about the Cowgirls Don't Cry with Reba..I was hoping that they would find away to get that version on CD. The new song Honky Tonk Stomp (?) was ok..not really great just ok. The rest were great to listen to. This is for anyone who just got into listening to Brooks and Dunn and Country music in general and it is for the long time fans of B&D. I highly reccommend this to any one!

I Love every Minute of this
You have to listen to this Album, too! Absolutely Great, fantastic i Love it!! Last Time my mind was blown Away like nowbwas when i listened to the chillout compilation called "Dolomiti Super Chill" Maybe you like it also-give it a try!!

Could have been Great
We have all heard most of this music and it is great, just not a third time. The three new songs are great (i include cowgirls don't cry as this is the only good version imop) the rest we now have for the third time. Had they dropped the #1 requirement and went with the "then some" we should have gotten the likes of Cowboy Town, Put a Girl in it, Building Bridges and Proud of the House we Built. Guess this is what we got. Do wish they were not splitting.

Somewhat unnecessary compilation of admittedly-great songs
While it's hard to find fault with a collection spanning 20 years of number one hits from country's premiere duo, I do have a few observations that you might want to consider before picking this one up. Brooks & Dunn have announced that they're calling it quits in 2010. OK, fine, they've had a great run and they deserve to sit down now. But what will almost certainly be their final album release is just another hits collection with 2 new songs? They've only released 2 albums since 2004's The Greatest Hits Collection, Vol. 2, so it seems a bit premature to be releasing another one. If anything, maybe they should have waited until the end of their final tour to release a comprehensive "Best Of" set. I've always found "Number 1" compilations a bit troubling, in general. Inevitably, there were those great songs that fell just short of the top spot. In this case, hardcore fans and even casual listeners will miss "You Can't Take the Honkytonk Out of the Girl," "Hard Workin' Man," "My Heart is Lost to You," "Missing You" and many other favorites. And the reverse is true as well: It's hard for me to believe lesser compositions like "Husbands and Wives" and "Ain't Nothing 'Bout You" charted higher than the songs listed above. And good intentions aside, I could go several years without hearing the massively-overplayed "Believe" again. Yes, I'm nit-picking. And as a long-time fan who has bought every album these guys have released, I have that right. The whole thing just seems a bit thrown-together for the sake of promoting the group's breakup. Even the guys' long tradition of the fictional liner-note adventures of "Slim and Howdy" have been replaced by a short & sweet "Thanks for the past 20 years" sentiment. If you ARE a hardcore fan, you'll no doubt be getting this for the 2 new songs. And they're just fine. "Indian Summer" is a pleasant mid-tempo number, while "Honky Tonk Stomp" (featuring ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons) is great rough-and-rowdy tune. Technically, there's THREE new songs if you consider that the Reba McEntire version of "Cowgirls Don't Cry" was not previously available on a B & D album. But for those of us who have all the albums already, #1'S AND THEN SOME is, sadly, largely unnecessary.

DON'T WASTE YOUR $$$$ MONEY $$$$!!!!
Paying for 2 new songs - that's it - Some of the "hits" have been digitally changed and do not sound the same as what made them hits. What a dissapointment. But hey - when you are calling it a day - I guess this is the cheapest way to make money.