''Reboot II'' is the twelfth studio album by American

country music Country (also called country and western) is a popular music, music genre originating in the southern regions of the United States, both the American South and American southwest, the Southwest. First produced in the 1920s, country music is p ...

duo

Brooks & Dunn Brooks & Dunn are an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, both of whom are vocalists and songwriters. The duo was founded in 1988 through the suggestion of songwriter and record producer, Tim DuBois. Before thei ...

. It is a follow-up to their 2019 album ''

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'', featuring re-recordings of Brooks & Dunn's hit singles with guest vocals from other artists.

History

In 2019, Brooks & Dunn released ''

'', which featured them re-recording existing songs of theirs with guest vocals from country music singers. ''Reboot II'' also comprises re-recordings, but unlike its predecessor, it features musicians from outside the country music genre. Among these are the Earls of Leicester on a bluegrass rendition of " How Long Gone", and rock band

Halestorm Halestorm is an American Rock music, rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Lzzy Hale, drummer Arejay Hale, guitarist Joe Hottinger, and bassist Josh Smith. Siblings Lzzy and Arejay founded the band in ...

on " Boot Scootin' Boogie".

Dann Huff Dann Lee Huff (born November 15, 1960) is an American record producer, studio guitarist, and songwriter. For his work as a producer in the country music genre, he has won several awards, including the ''Musician of the Year'' award in 2001, 2004 ...

produced the album, with assistance from

Joey Moi Joey Moi (born August 9, 1975) is a Canadian record producer, audio engineer, mixer, songwriter, and musician. He is known for his work with the rock groups Nickelback and My Darkest Days, and country music acts Chris Lane, Dallas Smith, Florida G ...

Kristian Bush Kristian Merrill Bush (born March 14, 1970) is an American singer, songwriter, and record producer. Bush is one half of the country music duo Sugarland with Jennifer Nettles, and was a member of the folk rock duo Billy Pilgrim (band), Billy Pi ...

, and

Jerry Douglas Gerald Calvin Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American Dobro and lap steel guitar player and record producer. He is widely regarded as "perhaps the finest Dobro player in contemporary acoustic music, and certainly the most celebrated and prol ...

on some tracks. According to the duo, each collaborative artist was allowed creative input on which song they covered. The album precedes the duo's Neon Moon Tour, to begin in 2025.

Track listing

Personnel

Brooks & Dunn *

Kix Brooks Leon Eric Brooks III, better known by his stage name Kix Brooks (born May 12, 1955), is an American country music artist, actor, and film producer best known for being one half of the duo Brooks & Dunn and host of radio's ''American Country Cou ...

– background vocals (tracks 1–14, 16–18),

harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...

(3, 8, 17), lead vocals (8) *

Ronnie Dunn Ronald Gene Dunn (born June 1, 1953) is an American country music singer-songwriter and record executive. Starting in 2011, Dunn has worked as a solo artist following the temporary dissolution of Brooks & Dunn. He released his Ronnie Dunn (alb ...

– lead vocals (tracks 1, 2, 4–7, 9–12, 14–18), background vocals (1, 4–6, 9, 13) Additional musicians *

Jimmie Lee Sloas Jimmie Lee Sloas is an American session musician, producer, and songwriter, who plays bass. History Jimmie Lee Sloas, born in Ashland, Kentucky, grew up in Fairborn, Ohio and Isonville, Kentucky. His father, Dave, was a member of the popular ...

– bass (tracks 1, 2, 10, 12, 13, 15, 16) * Justin Niebank –

programming Program (American English; also Commonwealth English in terms of computer programming and related activities) or programme (Commonwealth English in all other meanings), programmer, or programming may refer to: Business and management * Program m ...

(tracks 1, 3–10, 13, 14, 17, 18) * Josh Reedy – background vocals (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18) * Alex Wright – synthesizer (tracks 1, 5, 10, 13, 18), organ (1, 5, 10, 18), piano (1, 10, 18), keyboards (15) *

Ilya Toshinskiy Bering Strait was a Russian country music band, whose style was sometimes called "redgrass". In 2003, the band was nominated for a Grammy Award and appeared on the TV show ''60 Minutes''. The group disbanded in 2006. The lineup on their first al ...

–

Dobro Dobro () is an American brand of resonator guitars owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally a gui ...

(track 1), electric guitar (5, 10), acoustic guitar (10, 13, 18),

bouzouki The bouzouki (, also ; ; alt. pl. ''bouzoukia'', , from Greek , from Turkish ) is a musical instrument popular in West Asia (Syria, Iraq), Europe and Balkans (Greece, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Turkey). It is a member of the long-necked lute fam ...

(13),

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. ...

(17, 18) *

– electric guitar (tracks 1, 6, 8–10, 14, 18);

mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...

slide guitar Slide guitar is a technique for playing the guitar that is often used in blues music. It involves playing a guitar while holding a hard object (a slide) against the strings, creating the opportunity for glissando effects and deep vibratos that ...

(10);

12-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in ...

(13) * Rob McNelley – electric guitar (tracks 1, 7, 10, 13, 18) * Paul Franklin –

steel guitar A steel guitar () is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conventional guitar i ...

(tracks 1, 7, 13),

pedal steel guitar The pedal steel guitar is a console steel guitar with pedals and knee levers that change the pitch of certain strings, enabling more varied and complex music to be played than with other steel guitar designs. Like all steel guitars, it can play ...

(12, 16) * David Huff – programming (tracks 1, 8, 10, 13) *

Aaron Sterling Aaron Sterling (born July 9, 1980) is an American drummer, producer, engineer, and session musician who lives in Los Angeles and Nashville, Tennessee. The son of professional musicians, Sterling grew up in Texas and Nashville, before moving to L ...

– drums (tracks 1, 10, 13, 18), percussion (1, 13),

tambourine The tambourine is a musical instrument in the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zills". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, thoug ...

(10, 18) *

Stuart Duncan Stuart Ian Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school ...

–

fiddle A fiddle is a Bow (music), bowed String instrument, string musical instrument, most often a violin or a bass. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including European classical music, classical music. Althou ...

(tracks 1, 13) *

Lainey Wilson Lainey Denay Wilson (born May 19, 1992) is an American country music, country singer-songwriter. She performed at an early age, before going to Nashville, Tennessee, Nashville to pursue a career as a country performer. In 2014, she released her f ...

– lead vocals (track 1) * Dave Cohen – keyboards (track 2), piano (12, 16) * Jerry Roe – drums (tracks 2, 5, 12, 15) *

Bryan Sutton James Bryan Sutton (born 1973) is an American musician. Primarily known as a flatpicking acoustic guitar player, Sutton also plays mandolin, banjo, ukulele, and electric guitar. He also sings and writes songs. Biography Early career Sutton's gr ...

– acoustic guitar (tracks 2, 12, 16) * Wes Hightower – background vocals (tracks 2, 12, 16) *

Tom Bukovac Tom Bukovac (born December 20, 1968) is an American session guitarist and producer. He is also a popular YouTube personality with over 100,000 subscribers. He is a five-time winner of Music Row's Top Ten Album All-Stars award in the guitar categ ...

– electric guitar (track 2) *

Morgan Wallen Morgan Cole Wallen (born May 13, 1993) is an American country pop singer from Sneedville, Tennessee. He competed in the The Voice (American season 6), sixth season of ''The Voice (American TV series), The Voice''. After being eliminated in the ...

– lead vocals (track 2) * Marcus King – lead vocals, electric guitar (track 3) *

Stephen Campbell Stephen Campbell was an Arawakan Guyanese politician and political activist, and the first Amerindian member of Parliament in Guyanese history. Biography Stephen Joseph Campbell was born to Tiburtio A. Campbell and his wife, Maria dos Santo ...

– bass guitar (track 3) * Jack Ryan – drums (track 3) * Drew Smithers – electric guitar (track 3) * Mike Runyon – organ, piano (track 3) * Chris Spies – saxophone (track 3) * Kyle Snuffer – trombone (track 3) * Alex Bradley – trumpet (track 3) *

Megan Moroney Megan Ann Moroney (born October 9, 1997) is an American singer and songwriter from Douglasville, Georgia, west of Atlanta. Moroney first gained attention from her single "Hair Salon", which was included on her debut EP ''Pistol Made of Roses''. " ...

– lead vocals, background vocals (track 4) *

– acoustic guitar, mandolin (track 4) * Brandon Bush – organ, piano, synthesizer (track 4) * Ted Pecchio – bass guitar (track 4) *

Travis McNabb Travis Aaron McNabb (born November 18, 1969) is an American drummer and percussionist. McNabb is perhaps best known as a longtime member of the band Better Than Ezra, although he has performed session and touring work with many acts during his c ...

– drums (track 4) * Justin Schipper – steel guitar (track 4) * Mark Hill – bass (tracks 5–7, 18) * Derek Wells – electric guitar (tracks 5, 6, 15) * Warren Zeiders – lead vocals (track 5) *

Dan Dugmore Dan Dugmore is an American session musician known primarily for playing the pedal steel guitar Born in 1949, Dugmore was raised in Pasadena, California. Influenced by the Flying Burrito Brothers, he learned to play steel guitar after Flying Bur ...

– steel guitar (track 5) *

Chris McHugh Chris McHugh (born 1964) is an American musician from Camden, NJ. He began his career as the drummer of Christian rock band White Heart from 1986 to 1989. McHugh toured and played as a session drummer with artists such as Aaron Neville, Pe ...

– drums (tracks 6, 7), tambourine (7) *

Gordon Mote Gordon James Mote (born October 25, 1970) is an American Christian country/ southern gospel singer, piano player, and worship leader. He was born blind. He has released eight studio albums. His album ''Don't Let Me Miss the Glory'' (2007) was hi ...

– organ, piano (tracks 6, 7) * Jelly Roll – lead vocals (track 6) * Denise Carite – background vocals (track 6) * Everett Drake – background vocals (track 6) * Jamar Carter – background vocals (track 6) * Kyla Harris – background vocals (track 6) * Michael Mishaw – background vocals (track 6) * Robert Bailey – background vocals (track 6) * Vicki Hampton – background vocals (track 6) * Wendy Moten – background vocals (track 6) * Craig Nelson – bass (track 6) * Joel Reist – bass (track 6) * Andrew Dunn –

cello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes pizzicato, plucked and occasionally col legno, hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually intonation (music), tuned i ...

(track 6) * Austin Hoke – cello (track 6) * Kevin Bate – cello (track 6) * Sari Reist – cello (track 6) * Luke Simonson –

English horn The cor anglais (, or original ; plural: ''cors anglais''), or English horn (mainly North America), is a double-reed woodwind instrument in the oboe family. It is approximately one and a half times the length of an oboe, making it essentially ...

oboe The oboe ( ) is a type of double-reed woodwind instrument. Oboes are usually made of wood, but may also be made of synthetic materials, such as plastic, resin, or hybrid composites. The most common type of oboe, the soprano oboe pitched in C, ...

(track 6) * Erik Gratton –

flute The flute is a member of a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group. Like all woodwinds, flutes are aerophones, producing sound with a vibrating column of air. Flutes produce sound when the player's air flows across an opening. In th ...

(track 6) * Anna Spina –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most o ...

(track 6) * Beth Beeson – French horn (track 6) * Jennifer Kummer – French horn (track 6) * Patrick Walle – French horn (track 6) * Rachel Miller –

harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orchestras or ...

(track 6) * Kristin Wilkinson – percussion (track 6) * Barry Green – trombone (track 6) * Matt Jeferson – trombone (track 6) * Roy Agee – trombone (track 6) * Steve Patrick – trumpet (track 6) * Neil Konouchi –

tuba The tuba (; ) is the largest and lowest-pitched musical instrument in the brass instrument, brass family. As with all brass instruments, the sound is produced by lip vibrationa buzzinto a mouthpiece (brass), mouthpiece. It first appeared in th ...

(track 6) * Chris Farrell –

viola The viola ( , () ) is a string instrument of the violin family, and is usually bowed when played. Violas are slightly larger than violins, and have a lower and deeper sound. Since the 18th century, it has been the middle or alto voice of the ...

(track 6) * Elizabeth Lamb – viola (track 6) * Monisa Angell – viola (track 6) * Seanad Chang – viola (track 6) * Ali Hoffman – violin (track 6) * Annaliese Kowert – violin (track 6) * Carrie Bailey – violin (track 6) * David Angell – violin (track 6) * David Davidson – violin (track 6) * Janet Darnall – violin (track 6) * Jenny Bifano – violin (track 6) * Jung-Min Shin – violin (track 6) * Karen Winkelmann – violin (track 6) * Mary Kathryn Vanosdale – violin (track 6) * Rachel Englander – violin (track 6) * Wei Tsun Chang – violin (track 6) * Todd Lombardo – acoustic guitar (track 7) *

Riley Green Johnathan Riley Green (born October 18, 1988) is an American country music singer and songwriter, signed to Nashville Harbor Records & Entertainment (formerly BMLG) since 2019. He has released three albums: ''Different 'Round Here'' in 2019, ''Ai ...

– lead vocals (track 7) *

Jaren Johnston Jaren Ray Johnston (born October 4, 1980) is an American country music and rock singer and songwriter. He is a member of the group The Cadillac Three. Career Jaren is a multiple time Grammy nominated songwriter and producer. Johnston was former ...

– lead vocals, acoustic guitar, background vocals, banjo, programming, synthesizer (track 8) * Neil Mason – drums, percussion (track 8) * Kelby Ray – slide guitar, steel guitar (track 8) *

Lzzy Hale Elizabeth Mae "Lzzy" Hale IV (born October 10, 1983) is an American musician. She serves as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of hard rock band Halestorm, which she co-founded with her brother Arejay Hale in 1997. Early life Hale was born O ...

– lead vocals, electric guitar (track 9) *

Josh Smith Joshua Smith (born December 5, 1985) is an American former professional basketball player who played 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Entering the NBA straight out of high school, Smith played nine seasons with the Atlant ...

– bass (track 9) * Arejay Hale – drums (track 9) * Joe Hottinger – electric guitar (track 9) *

Mitchell Tenpenny James Mitchell Tenpenny III (born August 17, 1989) is an American country pop singer and songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee. He has released three studio albums and five extended plays through Riser House Records, with the first being '' Tellin ...

– lead vocals (track 10) * Shawn Camp – lead vocals, electric guitar (track 11) * Jeff White – background vocals,

tenor A tenor is a type of male singing voice whose vocal range lies between the countertenor and baritone voice types. It is the highest male chest voice type. Composers typically write music for this voice in the range from the second B below m ...

(track 11) * Charlie Cushman – banjo (track 11) * Daniel Kimbro – bass (track 11) *

– Dobro (track 11) *

Johnny Warren John Norman Warren, MBE, OAM (17 May 1943 – 6 November 2004) was an Australian soccer player, coach, administrator, writer and broadcaster. He was known as ''Captain Socceroo'' for his passionate work to promote the game in Australia. The a ...

– fiddle (track 11) * Larry Franklin – fiddle (tracks 12, 16) * Jake Worthington – lead vocals (track 12) *

Brent Mason Brent Mason (born July 13, 1959) is an American country music guitarist, songwriter and session musician. ''Guitar World'' magazine listed Mason as one of the "Top Ten Session Guitarists of All Time". Discovered and mentored by Chet Atkins, Maso ...

– electric guitar (track 12) *

Hailey Whitters Hailey Faith Whitters (born September 9, 1989) is an American country music singer originally from Shueyville, Iowa. Songwriting and music career Whitters has written songs for Little Big Town and Alan Jackson, and has written with Lori McKe ...

– lead vocals (track 13) *

Christone "Kingfish" Ingram Christone "Kingfish" Ingram (born January 19, 1999) is an American blues guitarist and singer from Clarksdale, Mississippi, United States, who became a well-known performer as a teenager. His debut album, '' Kingfish,'' was released in May 2019. ...

– lead vocals, electric guitar (track 14) * Deshawn Alexander – organ, piano (track 14) * Paul Rogers – bass (track 14) * Chris Black – drums (track 14) *

Hardy Hardy may refer to: People * Hardy (surname) * Hardy (given name) * Hardy (singer), American singer-songwriter Places Antarctica * Mount Hardy, Enderby Land * Hardy Cove, Greenwich Island * Hardy Rocks, Biscoe Islands Australia * Hardy, ...

– lead vocals, background vocals (track 15) *

Ernest Ernest is a given name derived from the Germanic languages, Germanic word ''ernst'', meaning "serious", often shortened to Ernie. Notable people and fictional characters with the name include: People *Archduke Ernest of Austria (1553–1595), ...

– lead vocals (track 16) * Michael Hobby – lead vocals (track 17) * Bill Satcher – acoustic guitar, electric guitar (track 17) * Graham DeLoach – bass (track 17) * Nathan Sexton – drums, percussion (track 17) * Adam Browder – electric guitar (track 17) * Jimmy Wallace – organ, piano (track 17) * Corey Kent – lead vocals (track 18) Technical * Adam Ayan – mastering (tracks 1, 3–11, 13, 14, 17, 18) *

Ted Jensen Ted Jensen (born September 19, 1954) is an American mastering engineer, known for having mastered many recordings, including the Eagles' '' Hotel California'', Green Day's '' American Idiot'' and Norah Jones' ''Come Away with Me''. Early life ...

– mastering (tracks 2, 12, 15, 16) * Justin Niebank – mixing (tracks 1, 3–10, 13, 14, 17, 18),

engineering Engineering is the practice of using natural science, mathematics, and the engineering design process to Problem solving#Engineering, solve problems within technology, increase efficiency and productivity, and improve Systems engineering, s ...

(7, 9) * Drew Bollman – mixing (tracks 1, 4–10, 13, 14, 17, 18), engineering (1, 3, 8, 10, 13, 17, 18) *

– mixing (tracks 2, 15), vocal engineering (2, 15, 16) * Gary Paczosa – mixing, engineering (track 11) *

Olle Romo Olle Romö is a Swedish music producer, songwriter, and drummer. Romo rehearsed with Swedish progressive rock group Kaipa in early 1982; however, he left the group after a few weeks to join Eurythmics, and he was a drummer for them from the mid ...

– mixing (track 12) * Chuck Ainlay – mixing (track 16), vocal engineering (12) * Josh Ditty – engineering,

editing Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written language, written, Image editing, visual, Audio engineer, audible, or Film editing, cinematic material used by a person or an entity to convey a message or information. The editing p ...

(tracks 2, 12, 15, 16) * Buckley Miller – engineering (tracks 4, 14) * Steve Marcantonio – engineering (track 6),

overdub Overdubbing (also known as layering) is a technique used in audio recording in which audio tracks that have been pre-recorded are then played back and monitored, while simultaneously recording new, doubled, or augmented tracks onto one or more a ...

engineering (6, 17) * Chip Matthews – vocal production, vocal engineering * Mike Kyle – vocal production, vocal engineering * Josh Reedy – overdub engineering (tracks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 17, 18) * Luke Campolieta – overdub engineering (track 4) * Jordan Pratt – overdub engineering (track 6) * Chris Small – editing (tracks 1, 3–9, 13, 14, 17, 18) * David Huff – editing (tracks 1, 3–9, 13, 14, 17, 18) * Ryan Yount – editing, engineering assistance (tracks 2, 12, 15, 16) * Eivind Nordland – editing (tracks 2, 12, 15, 16) * Scott Cooke – editing (tracks 2, 12, 15, 16) * Joel McKenney – engineering assistance (tracks 1, 3, 8, 13, 17) * Katelyn Prieboy – engineering assistance (tracks 2, 6, 16) * Michael Walter – engineering assistance (tracks 4, 6) * Joey Stanca – engineering assistance (tracks 5, 7, 9) * Wolf Robinson – engineering assistance (track 12) * Zach Kuhlman – engineering assistance (track 14) * Seth Morton – engineering assistance (track 17) * Sean Badum – engineering assistance (track 18) * Kristin Wilkinson –

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestr ...

(track 6) * Mike "Frog" Griffith – project coordination (tracks 1, 3–10, 13, 14, 17, 18) * Ally Gecewicz – project coordination (tracks 2, 12, 15, 16) * Reilly O'Connell – project coordination (tracks 2, 12, 15, 16)

Charts

References

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