Ronnie Dunn has admitted that he was feeling a little rebellious when he got the word COWBOY tattooed in huge letters all the way down the outside of his right forearm.  Some people have wondered why that word and why so big.  Ronnie explains, “Well you know I was standing there, we were in L.A. Ink in California, and standing there and there’s all these like big burly bikers and things around all these tattooed cats.  And it’s like I’m standing there going I want a tattoo. I didn’t really want a butterfly on my calf of my skinny leg or anything like that. So I was thinking, well cowboy … I mean I grew up in that world.  My dad was he was all about that.  He was a ranch foreman when I was born in West Texas. So I thought, okay, well I’ll do cowboy.”

Before the tattoo artist started, he drew the tattoo on Ronnie’s arm and Ronnie says, “The first thing you put on my arm was like you know three inches long.  I went, that’s not right, you can’t just put a little dot there that says cowboy. So by the time we got through it was from my elbow to my wrist and it just kind of scaled out.”

Ronnie and his tattooed arm are currently promoting his latest single, “Damn Drunk,” off his latest album, Tattooed Heart.

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“Well you know I was standing there, we were in L.A. Ink in California, and standing there and there’s all these like big burly bikers and things around all these tattooed cats.  And it’s like I’m standing there going I want a tattoo. I didn’t really want a butterfly on my calf of my skinny leg or anything like that. So I was thinking, well cowboy … I mean I grew up in that world.  My dad was he was all about that.  He was a ranch foreman when I was born in West Texas. So I thought, okay, well I’ll do cowboy. That’s when the artist kicked in and I’m looking in the mirror and like going well the first thing you put on my arm was like you know three inches long.  I went, that’s not right, you can’t just put a little dot there that says cowboy. So by the time we got through it was from my elbow to my wrist and it just kind of scaled out.”