 NASHVILLE, TN. (Brooks & Dunn Fans Website) - Everybody pretty much agrees that Ronnie Dunn is one of country music's most transcendent vocal firebrands. And over the past several years, his signature stomp and burn chops have done everything from witnessing about the lessons-learned-only -to-be-recognized-later-in-life with "Red Dirt Road," igniting the raw lust of "There Ain't Nothing 'Bout You," seizing the heroism and hope of " Only In America" and swinging from the neon in "You Can't Take The Honky Tonk Out of The Girl." Given his association with barnstorming goodtimer Kix Brooks, people often think he can't be lured from his partner. That was until Trisha Yearwood - herself the kind of singer that leaves people with jaw-dropping chills - decided to pry the 27 million selling duo apart. Dunn loved getting inside the song, which he described as "somewhere between the best of what Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris back in the day were all about." And the man who once topped the country charts with another female vocal powerhouse, Reba McEntire, savors his opportunities to step out with a pretty woman of major talent. "To be singing with someone who isn't all hairy legs and a big bushy mustache is a whole OTHER kind of inspiring," says the lanky 4-time Entertainer of the Year. "Trisha Yearwood is the best of the best kind of singer, and to be able to be even a small part of her music is pretty awesome. I don't know what this song is gonna be... or when it's even gonna come out... but getting to sing with her just pushes you, and that's always the best thing about making music!" "That's What It's All About," which debuted on the Academy of Country Music Awards, continues its climb up the country charts. The sweeping celebration of the often taken for granted things in life which are what really matter serves as an extension of the basic truth of "Red Dirt Road" - and is also the lead single from the boys' Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 due later this fall.
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