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(Garth) Brooks And Dunn to Release New Song

Maybe they’ll start a new duo. But what would they call it? Garth Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have a new song coming out. It will be on Garth’s recently announced…

Garth Brooks in a blue blazer on stage hat in hand and Ronnie Dunn playing guitar on stage in black
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Maybe they'll start a new duo. But what would they call it? Garth Brooks and Ronnie Dunn have a new song coming out. It will be on Garth's recently announced 14th studio album, which will be called Time Traveler. The new album will be out on November 7. The first song will be with fellow native Oklahoman Ronnie Dunn. The song is called "Rodeo Man."

In a press release, the new song, which will be out on Monday (11/6), was described as "a wild ride with a buckin' groove and cowboy lyrics."

Time Traveler, which Garth produced, includes ten tracks. Brooks said in a statement about the upcoming album, "There are a lot of different eras on this album, thus the name. Country music's core is sincerity, and after that, you can dress it up a thousand different ways. I am so lucky to live under the flag of country music."

Time Traveler is part of Garth's latest – and, he says, final – Limited Series boxed set. It will be available exclusively at Bass Pro Shops.

Time Traveler joins Man Against Machine, Gunslinger, Fun, and the three-disc Triple Live to complete the seven-disc Limited Series set.

Garth will play a live Dive Bar show at the opening of his "Friends In Low Places Bar and Honky-Tonk" in downtown Nashville. His show there will be the day after Thanksgiving. He said of the new bar, "It's just a classic, good ol' Oklahoma honky-tonk for me playing country music."

He continued, "There's themes everywhere in there. The bathroom in Friends In Low Places isn't just a bathroom. You'll see. Man, it's cool!"

Brooks concluded, "We are in the entertainment business, and our job is to make sure that you feel the time and money that you spent to get there – hopefully, you would do it again if you were offered the same chance."

Garth said last week (10/10) on Studio G, "I gotta tell you – when people go, 'What's your favorite thing – stadiums, arenas, whatever?' Dive Bars. Dive bars are stupid fun. And this one is going to be nuts!"

He added, "How do you open a Friends in Low Places bar? With a Garth concert! This is going to be off the chain: Black Friday, a brand new bar in the home of country music. Hollywood couldn't write a better script. I can NOT wait!"

Many country music superstars choose their middle names over their given first names. It is hard to imagine country music superstar Sam Smith (Tim McGraw's given name) and his superstar wife, Audrey Faith Perry (Faith Hill). Or how about sold-out stadium shows from a guy named Troyal (Garth Brooks)? And instead of two Lukes (Bryan and Combs), there would be two Thomas' (Rhett and Bryan).

Many celebrities change their name to fit who they have become, but in country music, the go-to name change for a superstar is to simply go with your middle name.

We take a look at five country superstars that go by their given middle names.

Kenneth Eric Church

Eric Church

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Can you image Kenny Church? Eric, born in n Granite Falls, North Carolina, was named after his father, Ken. Church worked with his dad at Clayton Marcus, a furniture upholstery company where his father was president.

Thomas Luther Bryan

Luke Bryan

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Luke was named after his father, Tommy, who was a peanut farmer in Leesburg, Georgia.

Troyal Garth Brooks

Garth Brooks

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Garth was named for his father, Troyal Raymond Brooks Jr. He is the elder Troyal's youngest child. His mother, Colleen McElroy Carroll (who passed away in 1999), was a 1950s-era country singer who recorded on Capitol Records, the same label that Garth recorded on.

Frederick Dierks Bentley

Dierks Bentley

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Dierks has used his middle name publically since his music career began. The name Dierks is his maternal great-grandmother's surname. His parents' names are Leon Fife Bentley (who passed away in 2012) and Catherine Childs.

Samuel Timothy Smith

Tim McGraw

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Tim McGraw was not born as a McGraw, and Timothy was his middle name. He changed his last name at age 11 when he learned the identity of his real father, major league baseball pitcher "Tug" McGraw, who passed away in 2004.

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.