{"id":7783,"date":"2010-08-22T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T21:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7783"},"modified":"2010-08-23T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T16:36:11","slug":"you-really-had-me-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=7783","title":{"rendered":"You Really Had Me Going"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holly Dunn is 53 today.<\/p>\n

“Holly Who?”<\/p>\n

Siddown.<\/p>\n

Back in the mid-eighties, country-western was trying to shake off the last of the detritus of its dismal “crossover” era – the wretched stretch starting in the mid-seventies when Nashville became obsessed with trying to conquer the Top Forty pop charts. \u00a0It led to much of the worst, most banal, formless, most pre-processed country ever, bilge like Eddie Rabbit and Barbara Mandrell and such.<\/p>\n

Into this vapid desert came a few performers who stubbornly stuck to the country’s traditional forms; Emmylou Harris<\/a>, George Strait, Ricky Skaggs…<\/p>\n

…and Holly Dunn. \u00a0Dunn – a San Antonio native and preacher’s daughter.<\/p>\n

It was still a few years before the likes of Garth Brooks would yank mainstream country back to its roots. \u00a0 In that interim, Dunn was a glorious little burst of unabashed honky-tonk twang.<\/p>\n

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Anything Gretchen Wilson does today, Dunn did twenty-odd years ago.<\/p>\n

Dunn retired from music in 2003; she lives in the Southwest and works as an artist.<\/p>\n

Anyway – happy birthday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holly Dunn is 53 today. “Holly Who?” Siddown. Back in the mid-eighties, country-western was trying to shake off the last of the detritus of its dismal “crossover” era – the wretched stretch starting in the mid-seventies when Nashville became obsessed with trying to conquer the Top Forty pop charts. \u00a0It led to much of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7783"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12838,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7783\/revisions\/12838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}