Ronnie Dunn

[Kim]

Ronnie Dunn Debuts New Solo Single, 'Bleed Red'

Jan 26th 2011
by Donna Hughes
theboot.com


After selling more than 30 million albums and wrapping up 20 years as one-half of the popular duo Brooks & Dunn, Ronnie Dunn is getting ready to hit the airwaves with 'Bleed Red,' the first single from his upcoming debut solo album for Sony Music Nashville. Fans can head to his website, RonnieDunn.com, to hear a snippet of the song.

"We all bleed red, all fall down/lose our way/we all say words we regret/we all cry tears/we all bleed red."

'Bleed Red' is described as a powerful ballad with a message of the power of forgiveness. Ronnie explains he felt an overwhelming need to record the song. "This song knocked me out from the first listen," says the singer. "I genuinely felt the spirit of the lyrics in my gut. It's a really big song, and it needed to be sung."

The type of song was not one Ronnie was intent on releasing as his first solo single following the musical split of Brooks & Dunn. "One day, I get this e-mail from a friend, and it's a song called 'Bleed Red.' So I listened to it, just to be nice, and it knocked me out," he reiterates. "It wasn't necessarily the suit that I was planning on wearing to the dance, so to speak, but it was a big song, and I said, 'I'm gonna have to beat Bono to the punch.' [laughs] It sounded like U2, and I'm going, 'Okay, so what if Conway Twitty were to come in and put a vocal on this anyway and cut the song?' So that's what we did."

Before hooking up in 1990 with his pal Kix Brooks, another singer-songwriter, Ronnie had issued three singles between 1983 - 1984 under Churchill/MCA Records. 'It's Written Alll Over Your Face' topped out at No. 59 in 1983, followed by another Top 60 single 'She Put the Sad in All His Songs' that same year. A third single, 'Jessie,' was released in 1984 and failed to make an impact on the country charts.

Fans were also able to get a taste of what they could expect from Ronnie as a solo act. He covered Gary Stewart's 1975 No. 1 hit, 'She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)' for the 'Country Strong' soundtrack, which was released in October.

'Bleed Red' can be heard in its entirety at Ronnie's website beginning this Sunday (January 30) and will be released to radio the next day (January 31). Fans will be able to download the single for their very own on February 8. The full album, featuring 'Bleed Red,' will arrive in stores later this year.

In other Ronnie news, he will join Miranda Lambert in announcing the final nominees for this year's ACM Awards on Tuesday (February 1).

[Kim]

Ronnie Dunn, ‘Bleed Red’ – Song Spotlight

By: Matthew Wilkening
January 30, 2011
tasteofcountry.com


Ronnie Dunn, formerly half of the mega-successful, recently disbanded Brooks & Dunn, has just unveiled ‘Bleed Red,’ the uplifting first single from his upcoming debut solo album.

Despite the title, the song is neither a polarizing political statement nor a romantic poem. Instead, ‘Bleed Red’ is an unexpectedly inspirational, piano-heavy plea for understanding a unit that Dunn himself admits sounds more like a song by politically-minded Irish rock legends U2, both musically and lyrically:

“We all bleed red / We all taste rain / We all fall down / Lose our way / We all say words we regret / We all cry tears / We all bleed red / Sometimes we’re strong / Sometimes we’re weak / We’re all the same / We all bleed red.”

Dunn surprised himself by choosing the song as his solo debut: “It wasn’t necessarily the suit that I was planning on wearing to the dance, so to speak. I said, ‘I’m gonna have to beat Bono to the punch. what if Conway Twitty was going to come in and put in the vocal on this one?’ And that’s what we did.”

‘Bleed Red’ will be available through digital outlets on Feb. 8. Neither a release date nor a title for Dunn’s upcoming solo album have been announced yet. He also recently covered Gary Stewart’s ‘She’s Acting Single (I’m Drinking Double)’ for the ‘Country Strong‘ soundtrack, and will team up with Miranda Lambert on Feb. 1 to announce the nominees for the 46th annual Academy of Country Music Awards.

[Kim]

CMT News

OFFSTAGE: Ronnie Dunn on Garth Brooks' Advice

February 1, 2011
Written by Alison Bonaguro


(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)

After the nominations for the ACM Awards are announced each year, there is an influx of artist responses. And so the newly-solo country artist Ronnie Dunn had a few things to say this morning to CMT.com. Mind you, Dunn and his former duo, Brooks & Dunn, are not nominated in any ACM category this year. But he still has an opinion on the way things work -- or should work. "I don't think there's a definitive process where you go about making it into an awards show or get nominations," he said. "You just do what you do, and you do it to the best of your ability. And everything else seems to take care of itself." What a great attitude. You make music, and if you win awards for it, even better. But I think what he's saying is that you can't try to win the awards. That has to be secondary. Dunn also talked about e-mailing back and forth with Garth Brooks, who was doling out advice to him. "He was wishing me well with the solo thing and he said, 'Just remember this: Be nice to people and do good music, and this business will take care of you,'" Dunn said of Brooks' e-mail. That's sound advice for anyone in country music, I think.

[Kim]

Ronnie Dunn Gets Advice From Garth Brooks


Ronnie Dunn made his first major appearance as a solo artist reading the nominations for The 46th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards yesterday morning along with Miranda Lambert. Ronnie is going to perform his new single “Bleed Red,” and he’s expecting to experience the same feelings he always does on an awards night:

(Ronnie Dunn) {Slight background noise} “Nothing new… pressure, you know? I feel it every time I walk up there to do it, hoping that I can deliver that vocal. I’m doing an event the night before – I was told not to say – but that’s gonna have a bearing out there in that desert air… gonna do a full-blown concert the night prior, too, so hey, if I squeak, I’ve done it before.”

Although he’s not up for any ACM honors this year, Dunn, formerly of famed duo Brooks & Dunn, knows a lot about being a nominee and a winner. He tells CMT, “I don’t think there’s a definitive process where you go about making it into an awards show or get nominations. You just do what you do, and you do it to the best of your ability. And everything else seems to take care of itself.” Ronnie also reveals some advice he once got in an email from Garth Brooks, noting, “He was wishing me well with the solo thing and he said, ‘Just remember this: Be nice to people and do good music, and this business will take care of you.’”

Source: Dial global
Contact: [e-mail]
February 2nd, 2011

[Kim]

Ronnie Dunn obsesses over first concert of new material since the breakup of Brooks & Dunn


By Chris Talbott, The Associated Press
Fri, 1 Apr, 2011


LAS VEGAS, Nev. - Ronnie Dunn came to Las Vegas two days early to get ready for The Academy of Country Music Awards and his first concert since the iconic duo Brooks & Dunn dissolved last September.

He wanted to get his voice acclimated to the dry desert air and obsess over the details. He says that while most of his compatriots are out partying, he's been in his room worrying.

The 57-year-old Dunn will debut his first set of new material publicly Saturday night at the ACM Concerts at Fremont Street Experience. Then he'll perform his new single, "Bleed Red," during Sunday's show, aired live on CBS from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

He said Friday after rehearsals that he's not sure if fans will demand he play hits from his Brooks & Dunn days during the Fremont concert, and plans to "make it up as I go."

"I've had lectures from everybody," Dunn said. "A good friend, Barbara Orbison, Roy Orbison's widow, was telling me she knows Paul McCartney and she talked about all the anxiety that he went through — and I didn't know this — about doing Beatles songs when he first came out and still to this day there are certain songs that he still has a lot of anxiety about doing."

Dunn will release his first post-Brooks & Dunn album on June 7. He produced the self-titled record and has been enjoying the life as a solo artist after more than 20 years with Kix Brooks. The duo was a mainstay at the awards and he's had plenty of experience in Vegas.

"It's a blast," Dunn said. "This is probably the most fun awards show to come to — and that can be good and bad."

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AP writer Caitlin R. King contributed to this report.

[Kim]

Ronnie Dunn Album Cover & Track List Revealed -- Exclusive

Apr 22nd 2011
by Erin Duvall
theboot.com


Arista Records


The Boot has your exclusive first look at the cover art and track list for Ronnie Dunn's self-titled album, which hits shelves June 7. The project is Ronnie's first solo music in 25 years and comes less than a year after his amicable split from musical partner Kix Brooks.

Ronnie wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's 12 tracks, with a who's-who list of famed co-writers including Craig Wiseman, Dallas Davidson, Terry McBride and Bobby Pinson.

'Bleed Red,' the album's first single, is already in the Top 15 on the country charts. It's one of the few on the CD that Ronnie did not have a hand in writing. "This song picked me," he tells The Boot. "I had the record, it was finished. I was good to go."

All that changed after a friend emailed the singer. "I thought I was headed to the honky-tonks and beer joints to kick out a few lights, and it drops out of the sky at the last moment," he continues. "I'm thinking, 'Just for the sake of some silly competition, I've got to beat [U2's] Bono to the punch,' because he has that big Red campaign going on. [laughs] A lot of crazy things went through my mind. But lo and behold, this is the single they picked to come out first."

Watch an exclusive video of Ronnie talking about 'Bleed Red' at the boot.com

Ronnie is currently on the road, with his next tour stop April 30 in Live Oak, Fla. Get his concert and ticket information here.


'Ronnie Dunn' Track List:


1. 'Singer in a Cowboy Band' -- Ronnie Dunn/Craig Wiseman
2. 'I Don't Dance' -- Ronnie Dunn/David Lee Murphy/Craig iseman
3. 'Your Kind of Love' -- Maile Misajon/Jeremy Stover
4. 'How Far to Waco' -- Ronnie Dunn/Terry McBride
5. 'Once' -- Jamie Floyd/Philip LaRue/Peter Sallis
6. 'Cost of Livin'' -- Phillip Coleman/Ronnie Dunn
7. 'Bleed Red' -- Andrew Dorff/Tommy Lee James
8. 'Last Love I'm Tryin'' -- Ronnie Dunn
9. 'Let the Cowboy Rock' -- Ronnie Dunn/Dallas Davidson
10. 'I Can't Help Myself' -- Ronnie Dunn/Terry McBride
11. 'I Just Get Lonely' -- Ronnie Dunn
12. 'Love Owes Me One' -- Ronnie Dunn/Terry McBride/Bobby Pinson

[Mallrat]

Ronnie Dunn Digs Into His Solo Career

06/15/11, 5:30 pm EDT

These days, Ronnie Dunn and his band are traveling on one tour bus. That's a far cry from the way it used to be for Brooks & Dunn, the superstar duo that ended 20 years of touring in 2010.

"In September, we had eight semis and six buses," Dunn recalls with a laugh. "I'm down to one bus and a horse trailer now. And I love it! Of course, it's easy for me to say, but I really enjoy doing this -- playing venues and staying under the radar, tightening up the band and getting a sound and a vibe of just how this solo thing feels. The few dates that we've played are a blast."

During a visit to CMT, Dunn opened up about the music on his self-titled debut album (which debuts at No. 1 this week on Billboard's country chart), his ongoing connection to country fans and the "meteor" that led to the end of Brooks & Dunn.

CMT: Your daughter is the beginning of your "Bleed Red" video. How did that enhance the message of the song?

Dunn: We winged that video for a while. We were not exactly sure where we would have to go. ... We took Haley down to the old rusty horse trailer out behind my barn where we were going to do some still shots. As we talked, I remembered that she had broken up with her boyfriend the weekend before that. It was during their spring break, and we got to talking about that. That's where she came up with the line, "Dad, I just never want to see him again." Well, they're back together now! (laughs) At the moment, it was a little heavy! We just started talking about how this song deals with forgiveness and we went from there.

"I Don't Dance" has that classic double meaning. How long have you had that idea?

It's a hook line that I had. Craig Wiseman and David Lee Murphy were meeting me up in the barn one day to write. I was getting water out of the refrigerator, and I came up with that line. I said, "How about this? What if we take the meaning of "I don't dance" -- meaning I actually don't dance -- and at the same time, you're staying true to love." You work that in as a guy being in a band and how you deal with that dynamic -- and how you hold a marriage and a relationship together. It sounded like a Southern rock song.

What did your wife Janine think of that song?

She liked it, but she said, "Don't even try to manipulate me with a song. You're digging out a deep hole here. You better write a bunch. ..." (laughs)

At what point do you play your new songs for her?

It's so intense for me. I'll wear you out. I'm doing it all the time, so she encouraged me at one point in the process to stop. Stop writing. Stop doing all kinds of things. She said, "Settle down and see if you can figure it out. I know it's a big step for you." I quit a good-paying job, and she said, "You didn't talk to me about that. You came back with a tattoo of 'COWBOY' all the way from your elbow to your wrist. I think you might need to slow down and stop being so impulsive." She said, "You'll figure it out. Don't panic." As soon as she said that, she turned around and patted me on the head. (laughs) You get the message. She walked off and went to the bedroom. And as soon as she did, I dove for a pen and pencil and wrote "Last Love I'm Trying." You never know where inspiration is going to come from. It's good to have someone like Janine with her dynamic personality in your head.

Is it easier for you to express what you want to say when you have a guitar?

It's easier for me to do it with music than it is to actually talk. If it weren't for that, I'm not sure how I would get by.

In "Cost of Living," the narrator doesn't come off as a complainer. Instead, he's ready to earn a position and to prove himself. Did that cross your mind when you were writing it?

I've had the song since 2008. I tried to cut it a couple of years ago for a B&D project. It was back when gas had caused the economy to start its slump and go into this recession. One of the guys at the label said, "Well, the economy will come around by the time we get this song out if you were to cut it." They weren't that crazy about it. They were lukewarm. So I said, "OK." It came around this time to cut. Here we are in 2011 and the economy is the same. I get ready to do it and someone else in an executive position told me I was too wealthy to sing this song. Come on. I grew up very blue-collar. That just made me want to do it even more to prove I could fully sell it.

Philip Coleman is the primary writer on it. He did most of the heavy lifting. He's mowing yards in the summertime and he works for FedEx, sweeping the trailers out, just to pay the bills while he's trying to catch on as a songwriter here in town. We played it for radio and a lot of people in the industry when we finished the record. This is the song that they said, "I need it. I want it now." They're like, "Give us this song now. Let us have it." So here we come. We're coming with it.

As a songwriter, what is that sensation like, when you're tapping into something? Is there a sense of exhilaration that goes along with that?

Yeah, it's hard not to take off running and run past them. I remember on "Love Owes Me One," Bobby Pinson was involved with writing that. He stood up at the end of the day when we got through and he said, "There's about a two-pounder," meaning it was not a big fish. That night, I went home, and it stayed in my head. I got up the next morning and went to the piano and worked on finding that really simple piano-and-vocal thing. What do they say? "Sometimes in life, the important part is between the breaths you take." It's that kind of song.

I didn't realize you played piano.

I don't. If you heard me play piano ... . (laughs) If you hear me play piano, it's not pretty. I can get around the chords, but I'll hit a clunker every now and then. More than every now and then.

To me, "Love Owes Me One" seems to be about knowing when it's time to move on, even when you've tried your best.

That's it. At the end of the day, I gave it all I got. How many people stay in marriages and relationships for years and years and years and have it fall apart? They can turn around and say, "I gave it all I got. I gave it everything I had. Love, you owe me one."

Does that theme apply to Brooks & Dunn, too? You gave it everything you had.

Yeah, we just rode that horse -- a good, good horse -- as fast as we could. We didn't want to lead it to being in a bad place.

I can't tell you how many people called me, looking for the inside story.

(laughs) There is no inside story. No, the meteor just kind of hit, and we went, "OK, we're done. Let's go do other things." Kix [Brooks] is out doing movies and he's doing his [syndicated radio] countdown show. So, everything's good.

One time at an awards show, you told reporters you hoped the fans understand just how much they have meant to you. Could you tell me more about what you meant?

This is just a neurotic thing on my part. I look at all these awards shows over the years and think, "How many times -- and I should have right up front -- did I say thanks to the fans?" You're so concerned with being able to get everything out, especially when you're in a group or duo. One of the things that inhibited me more than anything else in that scenario was hosting. You know they're back there watching the time tick away: "Five seconds, four seconds ... Get 'em off! Get'em off!" I just wanted to take an opportunity to say thanks to the fans for doing what they've done and for sticking around. And supporting what I'm doing now.

Do fans approach you? You've always seemed pretty approachable.

Yeah, I'll chat with you. We go back and forth on Facebook almost every day just to see what's going on. I think that's something you can't turn your back on. It's very relevant. You're looking at thousands of people on your website or your Facebook page giving you vital information. I describe it like walking down Main Street in a small country town. You can get a feel for how things are stacking up by the way people react to you.

For people who come to see your solo show, what can they expect?

We don't know. Truly, and I say "we" in the sense of me and the band, we are winging it. We're making it up along the way. There's no fixed set list. It's so much fun just to hear people shout out a song. Then you go, "Oh, yeah. Got it! Hit it!" Then you turn around and do it. It breathes the life back into it. With the big production thing, the lights are computerized. You have to go to a certain place to stand and sing. [The new way] is a lot of fun.

What are your touring plans?

Right now, we're doing a few dates under the radar. We're talking now. Our agent was out last week, asking me what I'd like to do. I think the songs will dictate that. That's the big thing. We don't have to do a lot of planning right now. Just let these songs and the record do their work. Everything else will take care of itself.

Have you considered headlining or maybe taking a middle slot on a big tour?

No, I don't think I'll do any of that. I think I'll stay in smaller venues -- just for fun for a while. I really do. It's different now that I'm up there by myself. I'm able to slow down and set the pace and talk back and forth with the crowd. It's a blast.

[Mallrat]

Ronnie Dunn, Blake Shelton Have No. 1 Album, Song

06/18/11, 6:30 pm EDT

There are two new tenants in Billboard's country albums and songs penthouses this week: Ronnie Dunn's self-titled CD and Blake Shelton's buzzworthy single, "Honey Bee."

Dunn's first album since the Brooks & Dunn split sold 45,376 copies its first week out.

There are four other new albums: Randy Travis' Anniversary Celebration: 25 (No. 4), Nick 13's self-titled collection (No. 22), Joe Ely's Satisfied at Last (No. 46) and Gene Watson and Rhonda Vincent's Your Money and My Good Looks (No. 71).

Albums bouncing back into the charts include Josh Thompson's Way Out Here (No. 65), the Judds' I Will Stand by You: The Essential Collection (No. 73), the Crazy Heart film soundtrack (No. 74) and Whiskey Myers' Firewater (No. 75).

Songs arriving this week are George Strait's "Here for a Good Time" (No. 29), Toby Keith's "Made In America" (No. 39), Dunn's "Cost of Livin'" (No. 56) and Rocket Club's "North Country" (No. 60).

Stealing Angels' "Paper Heart" re-enters at No. 59.

The remaining albums in the Top 5 cluster are Jason Aldean's My Kinda Party (No. 2), Brad Paisley's This Is Country Music (No. 3) and the Zac Brown Band's You Get What You Give (No. 5).

The No. 2 through No. 5 songs, in that order, are Taylor Swift's "Mean," Keith Urban's "Without You" (last week's No. 1), The Band Perry's "You Lie" and Justin Moore's "If Heaven Wasn't So Far Away."

OK. Let's squeeze some current song titles together for our Title Tales.

Ronnie Dunn + Keith Urban = "Cost of Livin' Without You"

Darius Rucker + Toby Keith = "I Got Nothin' Made in America"

George Strait + Joe Nichols = "Here for a Good Time Take It Off"

Next contestant, please.

[grg_straitfan]

RONNIE DUNN'S 'LET THE COWBOY ROCK' VIDEO HAS LEGEND EMBRACING HIS TEXAS ROOTS

Ronnie Dunn's latest single, 'Let the Cowboy Rock,' was originally intended to be the title cut and debut single of his first solo album, but was pushed aside in favor of the emotional ballad 'Bleed Red,' which ultimately became a Top 10 hit.

Still, the legendary singer acknowledges that his current hit, along with the accompanying video featuring a real cowboy as well as a lively party scene in a Nashville bar, best illustrates what he hopes to represent with his music.

"I've been [including cowboy footage] for years, with 'Hard Working Man' and things like that," Ronnie explains to The Boot. "I come from that west Texas, Oklahoma environment, and then in between is stuff that is very much me. I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably."

The 58-year-old singer-songwriter maintains it was also important for him to show people dancing and having a good time, which he insists was not staged. "So many people think that culture is not really out there and flourishing these days," he notes. "In the mid '90s, we all kind of drove it home, the stuff Garth [Brooks] did and especially the stuff we were doing at the time ... They aren't professional dancers, that's how that culture in Oklahoma and Texas is. They dance."

Ronnie has already revealed that he plans to do a video for all 11 songs on his album, not just the singles. While that may seem like an arduous task, he sees it as a vital way to connect with fans.

[grg_straitfan]

Common ground: Country star Ronnie Dunn shares his story at Tulsa Boys' Home

SAND SPRINGS — You can correctly assume Ronnie Dunn receives many requests to lend his presence to charity and humanitarian events.
The country music artist accepted an invitation to speak to Tulsa Boys’ Home residents Friday because he said Tulsa played a big part in his life.
Dunn wasn’t raised in Tulsa. Ask him where he went to school, and the answer — details later — could be everywhere.
But he moved to Tulsa in the mid-1970s to chase a dream, and he honky-tonked in this neck of the woods until 1989.
“It’s where I cut my teeth, doing live performances here, because the club scene was so healthy at the time that I was here,” he said. “It was a lucky time to be here. I have roots here.”
Dunn said two of his children were raised in Tulsa. He said his mother, two sisters and a brother live in Glenpool.
There’s one more reason this particular cause appealed to Dunn. He shared with residents that his father once lived in an orphanage. That, he said, had a lot to do with his Tulsa Boys’ Home visit.
“He had been placed in an orphanage with his two sisters, and he was the youngest,” Dunn said. “There is a long story that goes with it. It’s a book, I think, someday.”
Dunn will continue to raise awareness for the Tulsa Boys’ Home when he performs Saturday at a Run for the Roses Kentucky Derby party at the Expo Square Pavilion. The event is sold out, according to Tulsa Boys’ Home Executive Director Gregg Conway, but anyone wishing to donate to the home may do so by visiting tulsaboyshome.org.
The Tulsa Boys Home is in its 97th year of helping Oklahoma boys who combat mental, behavioral, emotional and substance abuse problems. Dunn toured the campus (“Killer facility,” he said) and met with a few students (one said he looked like Chuck Norris) before they assembled to hear him talk.
Dunn essentially recapped his life story — and found common ground with the audience — during a question-and-answer session.
Almost immediately, Dunn said it was his father’s dream to be a country singer and he followed that up by saying his dad once lived in a Kentucky orphanage.
“He wouldn’t talk to us about it,” Dunn said. “I never knew, like, half the stuff about it until, actually, after he died.”
Some things aren’t comfortable to talk about, acknowledged Dunn, but he wishes his father would have opened up about his experiences.
“I’m amazed at all the stuff that he went through and he was still able to raise a family,” he said.
Dunn told residents he grew up poor. His home was a trailer house, and he bounced around to 13 schools in 12 years.
Responding to a resident’s question, Dunn said he gravitated to music because it was “the only thing I was ever good at.” Some school subjects didn’t suit him, and he was the wrong subject for some suits — a football uniform, for instance.
“I was skinny,” he said. “I was too small for football. In the fifth grade, the coaches came down and said, ‘All you guys who want to play football, go down to the library.’” They saw Dunn and said this: “You need to go down to the band room.”
Dunn didn’t just want to play music. He wanted to make it big. Of course, folks told him he was crazy. The odds should have told him he was crazy.
“You didn’t dream like that, where I came from, and see it come to life,” he said. “It still seems like a fairy tale.”
Maybe, Dunn suggested, you are more determined to make it if you come out of a world where there seems to be no hope. He said it helped that he was hard-headed. There were times he got discouraged, but, hey, stick around long enough and you might catch a break. Or at least that’s what happened during his journey.
“It wouldn’t be, like, a big break,” he said. “But it would be just enough to keep you going for a day or two or a week or whatever.”
Dunn said he never wanted to be at the front of a band. He was a bass player for a band when he was in college, and the piano player/lead singer got sick. “From then on I was the lead singer,” he said.
In 1988, Dunn won the National Marlboro Talent Roundup. The only reason he entered was because a drummer friend noticed promotional material for the contest while in a convenience store and pestered Dunn into competing.
Speaking of breaks: Dunn said he came to Tulsa (instead of Nashville) to break into country music because, at the time, the biggest booking and management agency in the world was here.
“Oklahoma and Texas had great places to play,” he said. “So we would go call up all these clubs and just kind of go play. They would give us jobs on Friday and Saturday nights, and we would go up and hang out. The rest of it is kind of history.”
Dunn partnered with Kix Brooks to form Brooks & Dunn in 1990. They became the most successful duo in country music history with hits like “Boot Scootin’ Boogie,” “My Maria,” “Only in America” and “Believe.” Each has since gone the solo route, but they’ll reunite for a Las Vegas residency in June with Reba McEntire.
When a Tulsa Boys’ Home resident asked Dunn about life lessons he may have picked up along the way, he said this: “One thing I learned is it’s OK to dream. The sky is the limit. I’m a testimony to that.”

[lauriej]

Nice article

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Ronnie is such a great guy.

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While we wern't payin attention Ronnie "The Cowboy" Dunn has just been getting better!

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Ronnie Dunn - "Peace, Love, & Country Music"

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Can't wait for the neew album...well...I suppose I will have to!