Great Performance of Brooks & Dunn Of A George Strait’s Hit Song– “The Cowboy Rides Away” (Live Performance)

Enjoy this wonderful live performance of Brooks & Dunn of the song “The Cowboy Rides Away” which a George Strait popular song written by Sonny Throckmorton and Casey Kelly. Surely, they have done a wonderful version that even George Strait, who was sitting at the sideline, looked so stunned of the performance!

Brooks & Dunn are not only the biggest-selling duo in country music history, they’ve also sold more records than any other duo in the country music industry. Consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, both of whom are vocalists and songwriters, They have recorded 11 studio albums and five compilation albums for the label. They also have released 50 singles, of which 20 went to number one on the Hot Country Songs charts and 19 more reached top 10. Two of these number-one songs, “My Maria” (a cover of the B.W. Stevenson song) and “Ain’t Nothing ’bout You“, were the top country songs of 1996 and 2001, respectively, according to the Billboard Year-End charts. The latter is also the duo’s longest-lasting number-one single on that chart at six weeks. Several of their songs have also reached the Billboard Hot 100, with the number-25 peaks of “Ain’t Nothing ’bout You” and “Red Dirt Road” being their highest there. Brooks and Dunn also won the Country Music Association Vocal Duo of the Year award every year between 1992 and 2006, except for 2000. Two of their songs won the Grammy Award for Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal: “Hard Workin’ Man” in 1994 and “My Maria” in 1996. All but two of the duo’s studio albums are certified platinum or higher by the Recording Industry Association of America; their highest-certified is their 1991 debut album, Brand New Man, which is certified sextuple-platinum for shipments of six million copies. (Credits to Wikipedia)

The Cowboy Rides Away Lyrics

I knew the stakes were high right from the start
When she dealt the cards, I dealt my heart
Now I just found a game that I can’t play
And this is where the cowboy rides away

And my heart is sinkin’ like the setting sun
Setting on the things I wish I’d done
It’s time to say goodbye to yesterday
And this is where the cowboy rides away

We’ve been in and out of love and in-between
And now we play the final showdown scene
And as the credits roll, a sad song starts to play
And this is where the cowboy rides away

And my heart is sinkin’ like the setting sun
Setting on the things I wish I’d done
Oh, the last goodbye’s the hardest one to say
This is where the cowboy rides away

Oh, the last goodbye’s the hardest one to say
This is where the cowboy rides away

Source: Musixmatch

Songwriters: C. Kelly / S. Throckmorton