Country music icon Ronnie Dunn spoke about his upcoming album in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, saying it’s a return to the more traditional style of country music from the ’80s.
Dunn’s seventh solo album, entitled "100 Proof Neon," is Dunn’s return to the kind of country music he grew up listening to, which he described as country music mixed in with a little bit of rock music, taking influence from bands like Paycheck and artists like Johnny Lee.
In his experience, the most important thing about a song is how audiences respond to it and whether they can dance to it. "Well, I've been wanting to do it forever, and I took everything back to the same content, well, 99% of it back to the clubs and the honky-tonks that we played down in Texas and Oklahoma," Dunn said. "I tried to just go back to the jukebox days when we were … if you could make people dance in these clubs … it didn't matter how good your band was back then, if you could get them up to dance … you got hired again." Ronnie Dunn's new album, "100 Proof Neon," takes country music fans back to the traditional country sound. (Fox News) The second single released off the album, "Honky Tonk Town," features a new up-and-coming artist named Jake Worthington who recently signed with the Big Loud record label and is working on his own debut album.
Dunn decided to work with Worthington after hearing his voice on a project he was working on with Big Loud records and was immediately drawn to it.
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