Ronnie Dunn (album)

Ronnie Dunn is the debut solo studio album by American country music artist Ronnie Dunn. It was released on June 7, 2011, by Arista Nashville. The album was Dunn's first release of solo music in nearly 25 years; he released three singles in the 1980s without issuing an album.

The album's first single, "Bleed Red", was released to country music radio on January 31, 2011, and became a top ten hit on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. A second single, "Cost of Livin'", was scheduled to be released to radio on June 27, 2011, but the single entered the country chart two weeks before its release, debuting at number 56.

Background
Ronnie Dunn is Dunn's first solo music in 25 years and appeared less than a year after his split as one-half of Brooks & Dunn. Dunn wrote or co-wrote nine of the album's twelve tracks. "Bleed Red", the first single, was not one of them.

Personnel

 * Mike Brignardello – bass guitar
 * Jim "Moose" Brown – piano
 * Perry Coleman – background vocals
 * J.T. Corenflos – electric guitar
 * Melodie Crittenden – background vocals
 * Chad Cromwell – drums
 * Eric Darken – percussion
 * Ronnie Dunn – lead vocals
 * Mike Durham – electric guitar
 * Shawn Fichter – drums
 * Shannon Forrest – drums, percussion
 * Paul Franklin – steel guitar
 * Kevin "Swine" Grantt – bass guitar
 * Trey Gray – drums
 * Ashley Greenberg – background vocals
 * Kenny Greenberg – electric guitar
 * Joe Hardy – piano
 * Rob Harrington – bass guitar
 * Mike Haynes – trumpet
 * Wes Hightower – background vocals
 * Charles Judge – keyboards, piano, synthesizer
 * Kim Keyes – background vocals
 * Tony King – acoustic guitar
 * Troy Lancaster – electric guitar
 * Pat McGrath – acoustic guitar
 * Jerry McPherson – electric guitar
 * Gary Morse – steel guitar
 * The Nashville String Machine – strings
 * Kim Parent – background vocals
 * Steve Patrick – trumpet
 * Michael Payne – electric guitar
 * Brian Pruitt – drums
 * Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
 * Dwaine Rowe – keyboards, organ
 * Jimmie Lee Sloas – bass guitar
 * Judsen Spence – background vocals
 * Bryan Sutton – acoustic guitar, mandolin
 * Lou Toomey – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 * Bergen White – string arrangements, conductor
 * John Willis – acoustic guitar
 * Glenn Worf – bass guitar
 * Reese Wynans – organ, piano

Chart performance
Ronnie Dunn debuted at number 5 on the Billboard 200 and number one on the Top Country Albums, selling 45,000 copies in the U.S. Up to August 2016, the album had sold 266,000 copies in the US.