When it comes to accepting awards, especially ones with words like “Icon” on the title, Ronnie Dunn is extremely humble and not entirely comfortable with it. Last year, Brooks & Dunn were the recipients of the Nash Icon Award during the 2016 American Country Countdown Awards. Looking back on it, Ronnie says, “I felt kind of weird, and I still do, about accepting anything that has to do with that word. It should be, like I said in a speech, acceptance speech, it should be Merle Haggard, George Jones. There’s so many people ahead of us that are deserving of that. I don’t try to deal with it or process it. I just take it and put it on the shelf with the rest of some of the stuff that we’ve been lucky enough to win and thank guys like Merle Haggard and George Jones and people that have gone before us to make what we do possible, when I look at it.”
Considering Ronnie has been releasing music professionally since 1983, and he and his long-time partner, Kix Brooks, are still going strong in their personal endeavors over 30 years later, including the release of Ronnie’s latest album Tattooed Heart, and his latest single, “Damn Drunk,” which is being played at country radio today, we think he and Brooks & Dunn are more than worthy of being called Icons.
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Ronnie Dunn – receiving the Icon Award :28
“I felt kind of weird and I still do about you know accepting anything that has to do with that word. It should be, like I said in a speech, acceptance speech, it should be Merle Haggard, George Jones. There’s so many people ahead of us that are deserving of that. I don’t try to deal with it or process it. I just take it and put it on the shelf with the rest of some of the stuff that we’ve been lucky enough to win and thank guys like Merle Haggard and George Jones and people that have gone before us to make what we do possible, when I look at it.”