![]() ![]() “But by the time I pressed go on it, they came back and said Ashley is not only recording it, but making it the title of her new record,” he explains. “That’s one of those songs that just drops out of the sky, like ‘The Dance’ or ‘I Hope You Dance,’” Dunn says, “Those are just magic cred songs.”ĭunn recalls that the song was brought to him by Big Machine Label Group’s executive vp of A&R Allison Jones, before Monroe recorded it (Dunn’s 2016 album, Tattooed Heart, was released via Big Machine’s Nash Icon label). The Marc Beeson/Jamie Floyd/Allen Shamblin-penned song previously served as the title track to Ashley Monroe’s 2015 album, which earned a Grammy nomination for best country album. He’s from Texas, and he’s a welder by trade, but he sounds like Lefty Frizzell.” Throughout songs such as “Where The Neon Lies” and “She’s Why I Drink Whiskey,” he drowns heartache in two-steps, neon lights and liquor.īut on “The Blade,” one of the few outside cuts on the album, acceptance and regret are wrapped in Dunn’s enviable, tender tenor. On “Honky Tonk Town,” Dunn is joined by another newcomer, Jake Worthington, whom Dunn says is “as real as rain. “I just got into painting this picture of the music scene in Abilene and dodging the religious, church ethos of the school I went to - and trying to paint pictures of that eternal wind that blows, tumbleweeds and a young guy leaving town and his girlfriend to go chase that six-string dream.” “I went to college in Abilene, Texas, and we used to call it the belt buckle of the Baptist belt of West Texas, which is a super conservative, cowboy world,” Dunn says. ![]() We were chasing the ‘70s and ‘80s thing back in the ‘90s, and we integrated as much rock as we felt we could get away with.”ĭunn wrote on seven of the 11 tracks on 100 Proof Neon, including the solo-penned “Two Steppers, Waltzes and Shuffles” and “The Road to Abilene,” the latter of which features vocals from Texas native Parker McCollum. “We went through a phase in country music where it was pretty much boxed into one sound. “I feel lucky that it’s swinging back around to that and it’s right back in my wheelhouse - it also motivates me to keep creating, so I’m digging that,” Dunn says. His fifth solo project, 100 Proof Neon, comes out Friday (July 29) on his own LWR label.Īs a plethora of today’s biggest stars and newcomers attempt, with varying degrees of success, to play into the ‘90s country music resurgence, one of the original architects of the ‘90s country music canon - and one of the genre’s most iconic voices - proves he has plenty of classic country left in his arsenal. The duo’s trademark blend of classic country and rock is a template that also runs through Dunn’s own albums. It’s a mentality that has stayed with Dunn for the better part of three decades, helping the 2019 Country Music Hall of Fame-inducted Brooks & Dunn notch 20 chart leaders on Billboard’s Country Airplay chart, and win 19 Country Music Association awards, including entertainer of the year in 1996. ![]()
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