Ronnie Dunn is the self-titled 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.
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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.
Production
Gary Overton – A&R direction
Ronnie Dunn – producer
Jeff Balding – recording, mixing, additional recording, production assistant
Ben Fowler – recording
Jason Gantt – recording
Ryan Gore – recording, digital editing
Brian Kolb – recording
Mike Kyle – recording
Jeff Kersey – vocal recording, additional recording
Chuck Ainlay – mixing
Joe Hardy – mixing
Joe Martino – additional recording
Matt Helman – recording assistant
Greg Lawrence – recording assistant
John Palmeri – recording assistant
Taylor Pollert – recording assistant
Matt Coles – mix assistant
Jim Cooley – mix assistant
Jed Hackett – digital editing
Chris Utley – digital editing
Ted Jensen – mastering at Sterling Sound (New York, NY)
Marne McLyman – production coordinator
Terry McBride – production assistant (4, 8, 12)
Tommy Lee James – production assistant (5, 7)
Tony Brown – production assistant (10)
Scott McDaniel – creative direction, cover design
Tracy Baskette-Fleaner – art direction, package design
Judy Forde-Blair – creative production, album notes
Tammi Harris Cleek – imaging, photo shoot production
Danny Clinch – photography
Melissa Schleicher – grooming
April Johnson – stylist
Clarence Spalding with Spalding Entertainment – management
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.