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About Dolly in particular, he said her "creativity and spirit make her country music's best international ambassador." The actual awards will be presented to the honorees in a private state dinner Dec. 2 hosted by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush will receive them on Dec. 3 at The White House, followed by a gala ceremony and concert at the Kennedy Center's Opera House, which will be videotaped for broadcast later in the month on CBS (the exact air date has yet to be announced). Recipients are selected each year by the Board of Trustees of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts based on nominations from the Center's national artists committee, past honorees and individual leaders in the arts. The final honorees are chosen for recognition "for their lifetime contributions to American culture through the performing arts in dance, music, theater, opera, motion pictures and television. The primary criterion in the selection process is excellence. Last year's honorees were Tony Bennett, Suzanne Farrell, Julie Harris, Robert Redford and Tina Turner. Other previous recipients over the awards' 29-year history include luminaries such as Tennessee Williams, Cary Grant, Bob Hope, Ray Charles, Lucille Ball, Bette Davis, Johnny Carson, B.B. King, Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, Elizabeth Taylor, Carol Burnett and Elton John. Read more from Playbill (which appears to have broken the story at least an hour before anyone else had it) here, The Tennesseanhere, the Associated Press (via MSNBC) here and Dolly's official Kennedy Center bio here. Not all coverage was accurate, though. The story in The Washington Post claimed she had made a total of 15 films and received a total 20 gold albums, apparently due to the reporter's misreading of her Kennedy Center bio, which noted she had made "more than 15" films and received "more than 20" gold and platinum record awards -- including her cameos, she's appeared in 17 feature and made-for-television movies, and she has earned a total of 26 U.S. gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards. E! Online said here that she had released "nearly 60 albums" -- which is only her total if all of her concert LPs, official best of/greatest hits collections and movie soundtracks are removed from the total -- and that she has received five Grammy Awards, when in actuality she's been honored with seven credited Grammys (the Kennedy Center bio doesn't total them up but only mentions her five solo awards, leaving out her two collaborative awards with Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris -- there's also an eighth one, but it was for a "various artist" project, and under Grammy rules those awards are credited only to the album's producer instead of the individual artists, so it can't be counted toward her total).

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With 40 Top 10 songs, and 20 plus No. One hits stretching back to 1991, two GRAMMY awards, dozens of ACM and CMA honors and a discography counting more album sales than any duo in history - regardless of genre - New York Times heralded that Brooks & Dunn "helped drive the power-country era of the early-to-mid 1990s and continued to benefit from the sea change in the genre they helped initiate right through their most recent albums. Their original "Merle Haggard meets The Rolling Stones" vibe made them progressive stars in their own right. The duo's critically-acclaimed collaboration project REBOOT debuted at No. One on Billboard's Top Country Albums in 2019. The impressive feat marks the first time the duo has topped the album charts since 2009 while simultaneously earning the duo their 10th Billboard 200 Top 10 album, the most of any country duo or group in the chart's history. The duo was nominated for a GRAMMY for "Best Country Duo/ Group Performance" for their collaboration with Luke Combs on "Brand New Man" on the album. The duo was also inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in the "Modern Era Artist" category in 2019. Brooks & Dunn are currently gearing up for their first nationwide tour in ten years featuring special guests Travis Tritt and Elvie Shane. The REBOOT 2021 TOUR kicks off in Indianapolis, IN on 9/2.