Kix Brooks is new and hot on the radio with his first post-Brooks & Dunn solo single, a song called “New to This Town.” The song’s been getting a great reaction, and after his 20 years as part of the most successful duo in country music history, we couldn’t resist asking Kix how it feels to be a “new kid” again. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• The digital single for “New to This Town” is available at your favorite digital music store, and you’ll find it right , on iTunes.
• After a recent break for doctor-ordered vocal rest, Kix made the most of the time and even shot his upcoming music video for “New to This Town”! And he’s looking forward to getting back on the road, with upcoming tour dates on the events page of KixBrooks.com!

  Kix Brooks says that when it comes to his career as a solo artist with his new single, “New to This Town,” it feels more like “startin’ over in this town.” (1:07)
“Well, it’s kind of interesting. I mean, obviously I’ve been here a long time (laughs), so you know, I’m not new, but it is…it’s more like startin’ over in this town, you know? And there’s a lot of aspects of it that are, and I think folks are in a lot of ways real curious about what I’m up to and how this could be different than Brooks & Dunn, obviously. And it is different. And it’s kind of fun. Ronnie and I both, I think, ran under certain confines to try and make what we were callin’ Brooks & Dunn music. Whatever that was, it did have certain guidelines to it, a certain image to it, and, you know, we tried to stay true to that. So it’s kind of fun — I’m sure it is for him, too, but it definitely is for me to have that freedom of sort of turnin’ back the hands of time a little bit and goin’, ‘Okay, who was that guy again?’ (laughs) Yeah, it’s me! That’s right!'”