{"id":111785,"date":"2026-07-08T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/?p=111785"},"modified":"2026-07-08T05:16:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T09:16:52","slug":"ronnie-dunn-powers-through-tour-despite-bronchitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/ronnie-dunn-powers-through-tour-despite-bronchitis\/","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Dunn Powers Through Tour Despite Bronchitis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Brooks and Dunn&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>Ronnie Dunn<\/strong>\u00a0is reassuring fans after a recent health scare. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The country legend shared an update on Facebook, revealing he visited Vanderbilt Hospital after struggling through recent performances. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dunn initially feared he had damaged his vocal cords. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t feel too good tonight. Went to Vanderbilt yesterday. I struggled a little bit last week. Thought I maybe injured my vocal cords. They said I didn&#8217;t, but I&#8217;ve got like a touch of bronchitis.&#8221; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors advised him to stay hydrated, and Dunn joked about the consequences, saying he was &#8220;pretty sure I&#8217;m going to pee my pants onstage.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the illness, Dunn continues performing on tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DaVc8VhCYbP\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brooks and Dunn&#8217;s\u00a0Ronnie Dunn\u00a0is reassuring fans after a recent health scare. The country legend shared an update on Facebook, revealing he visited Vanderbilt Hospital after struggling through recent performances. Dunn initially feared he had damaged his vocal cords. &#8220;I don&#8217;t feel too good tonight. Went to Vanderbilt yesterday. I struggled a little bit last week.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":103702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[464],"tags":[9149,1207,1408,1409,12454,12455],"class_list":["post-111785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-bronchitis","tag-brooks-dunn","tag-kix-brooks","tag-ronnie-dunn","tag-vanderbilt-hospital","tag-vocal-cords"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 19:33:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/cknx.ca\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/07\/ronnie-dunn-powers-through-tour-despite-bronchitis\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111817,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111785\/revisions\/111817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cknxam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}