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Brooks & Dunn's Ronnie Dunn is known as a religious man, and Country Weekly recently asked him if there had ever been a moment when he knew with certainty that God heard his prayer.
"I went to my knees — the only time I've done it — I dropped to my knees in a field in Oklahoma years ago," Ronnie says. "I said, 'I've come to the end of my rope. This is it. I've done it.' And I had. I was with a weed-eater a mile out in the middle of some 106-degree prairie. I said, 'I'm either gonna make it in this business or I have ruined my life. I don't know where to go, what to do.' "
Ronnie says as he got up and started walking back home, his wife, Janine, drove up and said, "A guy named Tim Dubois just called and said for you to call him."
Ronnie says he knew who Tim was but hadn't been talking to him. "I went and picked up the phone, and he goes, 'I want to take 'Boot Scoot' and cut it for a single with Asleep at the Wheel.' I'm like, 'Ahhh, that's not what I wanted to hear.' But at least someone on the end of the line liked it.
"It happened that quick — just like that," Ronnie continues. "All the religious training I had, the one thing I remember them teaching that really stuck with me was when it is truly the end of the line, and your pride and everything you have is washed out of the picture — when you could never doubt that it's coming from some other place [he snaps fingers] just like that lightning striking right where you are, that happened. And it started all this...it started it."
