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10 Questions with ... David Dunn
October 24, 2016
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BRIEF CAREER SYNOPSIS:
Discography:
- 2009 David Dunn EP
- 2012 This Is Christmas
- 2012 For The Life Of Me
- 2014 Crystal Clear
1. Brief history/Synopsis
Born and raised in Midland Texas. I have an amazing family, 5 brothers and sisters, and a zillion nieces and nephews. I went to school to play basketball and get a petroleum engineering degree. My favorite job I've ever had was working at Mcdonald's. Currently my home is Nashville, TN.
2. What does a normal day at home look like for you?
There really is no such thing as a normal day. Everyday something new is going on that I need to mess with, but how about I tell you about an "off" day? That's a day where I'm not traveling, writing, recording, or anything specifically music related. Off days, I do normal boring human things: work out, read, play with my puppy, mess with my house (I'm trying to grow fruit trees..."trying" being the key word), ride my motorcycle, play golf or basketball with my pals, watch movies and tv shows, go see shows in town...
3. What's the song that you just can't get out of your head right now?
I tweet this exact question every few months to my followers, and currently I'm stuck on a song called "I Will Follow You" by Toulouse that one of my twitter people told me she loves. It's so great, and so strange and unpredictable. The dude has this happy/haunting whispering voice, and plays an odd old school waltz piano part. I just can't get enough.
4. How much do you travel, what are the challenges? How do you juggle life on the road with wanting to be home?
I travel a lot. Most people who have the hardest time on the road are family men. I don't have a wife or kids, so that aspect of road life is substantially easier. For the most part I just love playing music, and traveling to do that always feels like a treat. For me, most of the traveling challenges come in the form of energy levels. If I have a couple shows in a row that are amazing (amazing = an audience I feel connected/intimate with) I'll ride that energy to the next date. Give me two shows in a row where me and the audience are on different pages, my energy level plummet and my enthusiasm for being away from home is lackluster. Also, it takes a lot more effort to keep a community back home when you're not home nearly as often. You miss a lot of things, and that's hard to stomach when you do get home and realize the world didn't stop moving while you were gone. Friendships/mentorships are a lot harder to develop when you're not there to develop them.
5. What Artist or Pastor has had the greatest impact on you?
Oh gah, there are just so many...instead of just writing down a huge list of people who have inspired me I'll just give you a summation of what qualities I find most appealing in my musical heroes. Almost all of the artists that I admire have this one thing in common: they cared. Cared about making beautiful art, cared about being honest, cared about honing their craft or their thing. So thats what I want-I want to be like them. I want to be a man who cares about what he does and wants to be the best at it.
6. What's the last book you read?
haha...well...I'm part of an audio book club, and the last book we read was a fantasy fiction book that was really lousy (and I LOVE of fantasy fiction). This specific author just didn't meat my FF expectations.
7. Funniest or most embarrassing moment on the road?
this is TMI but since you asked...my pants split open between my crotch and rear end while I was playing a piano on stage, so I told the audience not to look (I was playing a show at a sorority house) and turned sideways on my piano stool and tried to hammer through the rest of the show without moving an inch. To this day I can't think about it without squirming a bit.
8. Take us through a couple songs on your latest project.
The newest project, that'll release sometime early 2017, is called Yellow Balloons. I write songs based all on aspects of my own life: from things I've learned, things I wish I could learn, hardships, questions I have etc.
This last year has been a really tough year for the Dunn family. My little two year old niece Moriah went down for a nap last September, and just didn't wake up, for no reason. I was there. Just one second she was with us and then the next she wasn't. It was devastation...still is to be honest.
So what this record mostly ended up being about, in some form or fashion, is Heaven and little kids. Thats where my head has been and that's where the record is.
9. Person you'd most like to have a discussion with, living or dead.....Deities are excused from this question
EZ! King Solomon. Wisest man to ever live. Think of how much your life would change just with one conversation.
10. Favorite Bible Verse....life verse?
Deuteronomy 30:19 - I believe the entire Bible is summed up in this one verse. My paraphrase: "choose life, that you might live." We choose every day, with every single action. We choose our way or His way, life or death.
Bonus Questions
1. How & When did you become a believer?
7 years old on my bunkbed. Heard my dad mention a place called hell, and I decided I had zero interest in ever visiting.
2. What's the biggest "God moment" you've ever experienced? Personally or professionally, when has God shown up in a powerful way?
Every substantial "God moment" I've ever had has been when He showed up to let me know I needed to be doing something I wasn't, and it's always something I don't want to do. Usually He doesn't have to tell me to do something I already want to do. It's a long story, but He showed up one time and insisted that I go see and forgive someone that had done a terrible thing to my family. Until I showed up and verbalized my forgiveness I had no idea how much anger and resentment was weighing on me. Pretty sure I would have been in long term trouble if God hadn't insisted on making me do something I didn't want to do.
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