Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn got close last month at the Academy of Country Music Awards but not Friday at Xcel Energy Center Photo by Matt Sayles/ Associated Press Brooks & Dunn are the Hall & Oates of country: A tall guy with an alluring, high voice and another, shorter guy with a dark moustache. On Friday at Xcel Energy Center, Brooks & Dunn might have been more like Simon & Garfunkel. One of them truly cared about delivering for the full house of 15,468 and the other was more interested in his solo career. Wonder if Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, like Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, have separate dressing rooms and limos (or tour buses)? Brooks and Dunn seemed to be entertaining the crowd separately rather than together, as I detailed in my review. Still, it was an entertaining, crowd-pleasing show, bolstered by a tight seven-man band and three splendid female backup singers. It was the kind of show where Brooks wore a Minnesota Wild jersey and Dunn wore a face that said I'm tired. It was the kind of show where Brooks invited a dude onstage to propose to his girl (she said "yes" even though he didn't offer a ring) and Dunn seemed more interested in jamming with the guitar player in the band. It was the kind of show where, after "Boot Scootin' Boogie," Brooks stuck around and signed autographs and Dunn waved and just walked off stage. Opening was Jason Aldean, the fast-rising country star who put some hip-hop rhythms and dirty rock guitar into his muscular country-rock. He not only did his hits, including "She's Country" and "Hicktown," but he did Kid Rock's "Cowboy" as his finale. Here is the B&D set list, though I might have missed a tune when I was up in the press box writing my review: Play Something Country/ Can't Take the Honky Tonk Out of the Girl/ Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing/ Cowgirls Don't Cry/ She's Not the Cheatin' Kind/ Put a Girl in It/ Never Forgive My Heart/ You're Gonna Miss Me When I'm Gone/ Ain't Nothing About You/ Kix solo: The Last Rodeo/ Lost and Found/ Ronnie joins Kix for sit-down set on end of runway: That's What She Gets for Loving Me/ It's Getting Better All the Time/ My Next Broken Heart/ ??/ How Long Gone/ That Ain't No Way To Go/ Red Dirt Road/ Believe/ Back to main stage with full band: Hard Working Man/ Neon Moon/ Rock My World/ Only in America/ My Maria ENCORE Brand New Man/ Boot Scootin' Boogie