{"id":18842,"date":"2019-09-26T23:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1812428"},"modified":"2019-09-26T23:00:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T05:00:50","slug":"ronnie-dunn-revives-another-country-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/music-news\/ronnie-dunn-revives-another-country-classic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Dunn Revives Another Country Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cmt.mtvnimages.com\/uri\/mgid:ao:image:cmt.com:682433?width=1200&amp;height=675&amp;.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"byline\">by <span class=\"author\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/author\/shelburnec\/\" title=\"Posts by Craig Shelburne\" rel=\"author\">Craig Shelburne<\/a><\/span> <span class=\"date\">29m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/artists\/ronnie-dunn\">Ronnie Dunn<\/a> considered naming his upcoming covers project <em>Dunn for Fun<\/em> \u2014 and truly that\u2019s the spirit that comes through on <em>Re-Dunn<\/em>, a 24-song album set for release in January 2020. A dozen tracks are country, while the others are classic rock.<\/p>\n<p>Dunn has notched his own bounty of country classics since the \u201990s with Brooks &amp; Dunn, the duo that will be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame this year. The powerhouse singer paid a visit to CMT.com to chat about the two country tracks released so far: \u201cThat\u2019s How I Got to Memphis\u201d and \u201cAmarillo by Morning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>CMT: Why did \u201cThat\u2019s How I Got to Memphis\u201d grab you for this project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MIALf-fIKZg\">Deryl Dodd\u2019s version<\/a> of \u201cThat\u2019s How I Got to Memphis\u201d is one of my favorite cuts, just flat out. And when I would talk to people that I knew, they\u2019d all bring it up. There\u2019s no way that I beat that. That wasn\u2019t the intent. I was just out having fun cutting stuff where I thought, \u201cWhat if that song had been pitched to me?\u201d Or, \u201cI wish I had that one.\u201d And that\u2019s one of them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSkZNfs8ib8?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bSkZNfs8ib8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Of course, \u201cThat\u2019s How I Got to Memphis\u201d is a great Tom T. Hall song. What\u2019s the imagery in your mind when you sing that song?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I see a guy walking the streets in Memphis looking for this girl he\u2019s been in love with. Trying to find her. There\u2019s this one thing where he says, \u201cThank you for your precious time.\u201d It\u2019s full of imagery like that. Tom T. was like that as a writer. He kept painting pictures with every word of every song he did.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This project could\u2019ve been a couple of singles or an EP, so how did you settle on 24 songs?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I ran out of money. (laughs) Somebody sent me the invoice! I went in to do three, just as an experiment, and see what songs we could do for a streaming initiative. I wanted to see what songs Brooks &amp; Dunn fans would\u2019ve been listening to when they were cheating and sneaking over onto the rock stations.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-hf86uSk_lo?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-hf86uSk_lo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Do you like using streaming services?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Yeah. I think that\u2019s where it\u2019s at. There\u2019s so much pushback right now, for country fans. They are the last ones to convert when it comes to innovation and things like that. They just want to hold on to what they have. They don\u2019t really like change, for the most part, but this is going to end up being really positive for them.<\/p>\n<p>Once that market opens up to streaming, and you realize, OK, you may not like what you hear on terrestrial radio every day, or someplace else, but you can go streaming and pick your songs. And go as far back as you want to. There\u2019s no limit to that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019m sure you sang some of these songs when you were playing clubs in Tulsa. Tell me about how you balanced your set list back then, because you were writing songs, too.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We had to keep people dancing so and you can do that with all country songs, to an extent. But back in the mid and late \u201880s and early \u201890s \u2014 right up to the time when Brooks &amp; Dunn took off \u2014 we had to play a mixture of traditional and I call it country rock or classic rock. But we would countrify it if we did it, just by virtue of the fact that I would open my mouth and sing it, it\u2019s going to be that way. In my generation, music came together at that point. Country music met rock at that point. And some of those songs do define those moments.<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_6T1fhsdHs4?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_6T1fhsdHs4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your advice for someone that\u2019s at that club level now?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t give up. If you want it bad enough, you have to push beyond rational. You can\u2019t give up. I was 38 when I got a record deal, and I can\u2019t tell you how many times I thought I had ruined my life. By dropping out of school, and jumping in the middle of all this stuff. Going out booking clubs, beer joints wherever we could play. I just pushed through it and got lucky.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you record \u201cAmarillo by Morning\u201d for this project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I played that in college. I went to a religious school in West Texas and they wouldn\u2019t allow you to go play clubs so we would sneak off and the musicians and buddies and play VFWs. That\u2019s where people would gather in these small West Texas towns. At the time, \u201cAmarillo by Morning\u201d was a regional hit by the writer, Terry Stafford. We would play that song, so whenever I heard Strait cut it, I was like, \u201cWow, he\u2019s doing a cover song.\u201d (laughs)<\/p>\n<div class=\"deferred_content\">Embedded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6CQJyrin_Wk?feature=oembed\">www.youtube.com<\/a>. <noscript class=\"deferred_content\" data-deferred-info=\"{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;iframe&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6CQJyrin_Wk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Do you remember when you first met George Strait?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No, I don\u2019t. We\u2019ve become friends over the years. I actually sent \u201cAmarillo\u201d to him the other day just to mess with him. He never texts, he never calls \u2013 you know, you\u2019re probably on your boat or your fancy plane. He texted back, sure enough the next morning. He said, \u201cI\u2019m going to give this thing a listen,\u201d and he said, \u201cI\u2019ll get on the boat or something, check it all out.\u201d Then he said, \u201cI just heard \u2018Amarillo by Morning. It sounds really good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>You got George Strait\u2019s approval. I think you\u2019re gonna OK.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That a long text for George Strait, believe me!<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/1812428\/ronnie-dunn-revives-another-country-classic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Craig Shelburne 29m ago Ronnie Dunn considered naming his upcoming covers project Dunn for Fun \u2014 and truly that\u2019s the spirit that comes through on Re-Dunn, a 24-song album set for release in January 2020. A dozen tracks are country, while the others are classic rock. Dunn has notched his own bounty of country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 18:50:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KRKY Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/krky\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}