Although Dunn has spent time in the Nashville and Atlanta music scenes, winning the Georgia Country Music Association Musician of the Year Award along the way, he continues to be based in his home turf of Virginia Beach, VA. When his mother took him to see the late Stevie Ray Vaughan perform when he was a kid, it turned his head around, as did the music of the great Eddie Van Halen. Eventually, Dunn’s older brother handed him his first electric guitar and hewould soon be playing professional gigs by the time he was a teenager.

On Top Gear, a follow-up to his well-received Lyrics, Licks and Lovers album, Dunn stakes his claim as a torchbearer for the hard rock genre.