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“….an era when veteran artists are under-appreciated. ”
That may be true, but hey, you can count on one hand the number of radio hits put out by artists of Ronnie Dunn’s age in ANY era of country music. Dunn is older than Alan Jackson, older than Garth, older than Randy Travis, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, Wynonna Judd, Tanya Tucker… and he’s only a year younger than Strait.
Dunn is a great singer. He should just try to put out quality records and not try to chase after radio play, which he’s not going to get anyway.
I wish everyone would do that.
Amen.
Hey, I don’t begrudge a singer who’s in his professional prime aiming his sound and subject matter to what’s commercial and what’s likely to be played on the radio. All the greats did that.
But it can become embarrassing–and counterproductive–for an artist to keep chasing after radio hits when they reach a certain age and radio is done with them. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart–to name just a few who come immediately to mind–all achieved artistic–and even some commercial–success in their “post-radio” careers by creating albums that were not geared at all to what radio was playing at the moment.
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