Brooks & Dunn are new on the radio this week with their latest single, a song co-written by Ronnie Dunn, called “Cowgirls Don’t Cry.” But Ronnie says it doesn’t apply strictly to cowgirls in its tale of a father who taught his daughter to hold her head high through the tough times. In fact, Ronnie notes, “I say this all the time: women are stronger than us. They are,” adding that women are forced to “endure things that we can’t imagine” — which Kix laughingly identifies as “Us!” (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• “Cowgirls Don’t Cry” is the fourth single from the duo’s Cowboy Town album, which also includes the hits “Put a Girl in It,” “God Must Be Busy,” and “Proud of the House We Built.”

  Brooks & Dunn talk about the strength of the “fairer sex.” (:44)
Ronnie: “I say this all the time: women are stronger than us. They are. They have to endure, they have to endure things that we can’t imagine…”
Kix: “Us! (laughing)”
Ronnie: “Us! (laughing) Having kids. Yeah, yeah, I was gonna put that behind having kids, but I think you may be right, in the pecking order. But yeah, it’s just once again, it’s not a cowgirl-specific song. It’s about the things that women, you know, have to endure, and I think as a dad standing on the sidelines watching a daughter grow up who is that redhead in the first verse who I’m givin’ a pony to, you stand back, and those are kinds of things that guys are taught, ‘Hey, you don’t cry, cowboy, you don’t cry. You get up, and do it again.'”