Brooks & Dunn Neon Circus Tour at Target Center
April 12, 2002


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B&D's Patriotic 'Circus' Sizzles in Twin Cities
Concert review by Star Tribune Music Critic, Jon Bream ~ April 14, 2002
At one end of downtown Friday night (April 12), the Minnesota Twins had their 2002 home opener in the Metrodome with Ann-Margret singing the national anthem for 48,000 (she's in town in The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas). At the other end of downtown on Friday night, the Neon Circus & Wild West Show had its tour opener in Target Center, with Brooks & Dunn's band playing "The Star-Spangled Banner" in front of 10,000 fans.

Before their band could finish the instrumental "Banner," Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn emerged from behind an American flag and segued into "Only in America." Historic speeches by John F. Kennedy and George W. Bush were broadcast, Old Glory waved across giant video screens, and, during the second chorus of B&D's patriotic hit, red, white and blue streamers exploded into the crowd. It seemed like the Fourth of July in April.

Not surprisingly, three of the five acts on the second annual Neon Circus tour did some flag-waving. Heidi Newfield and Ira Dean of Trick Pony were decked out in outfits depicting the American flag. And Chris Cagle did some jingoistic songs and cheers. But the main attraction was those guys behind the best-selling Steers and Stripes CD.

None of the opening acts needed high-tech gimmicks to communicate their energy. Cagle, who kicked off the 5 1/2-hour program, was running into the crowd, spraying beer and generally having a good ol' time. More beefy than beefcake, he knows how to use his reedy voice to good advantage. "I Breathe In, I Breathe Out," his recent charttopper, was an effective expression about coping after a breakup.

Trick Pony is always more wound up than the mechanical bull in the Neon Circus lobby. But the group was especially wired in Minneapolis because goofball bassist Ira Dean graduated from North St. Paul High School in a local suburb. He saluted his hometown, darted into the crowd to kiss his mom and did his Kid Rock impression onstage.

Trick Pony singer Heidi Newfield provided a nice change of pace vocally -- and visually, in red leather pants and a blue tank top with an American flag woven into the front -- from the testosterone-heavy Neon Circus lineup. (There were no female performers last year.) But with only 35 minutes, she and her buddies never truly got to cut loose like they do at their own gigs.

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