Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame

Sunny Sweeney - Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame

Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame
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Artist: Sunny Sweeney
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2007-03-06
Music Label: Big Machine Records
Soundtracks:
  1. Refresh My Memory
  2. East Texas Pines
  3. Next Big Nothing
  4. Lavender Blue
  5. Ten Years Pass
  6. Here Lately
  7. Heartbreaker's Hall Of Fame
  8. Slow Swinging Western Tunes
  9. Please Be San Antone
  10. Mama's Opry
  11. If I Could
  12. 16th Avenue

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Free Music Review: Real country music!
Hit: 5 Stars

Every once in awhile, a true country performer comes along and my faith in country music is renewed, if only for a moment or two. Here's one of those performers, Sunny Sweeney. This, THIS is what country radio should be playing and Nashville record companies should be begging for. Maybe, someday that will happen. Meanwhile, here's Sunny with a butt-kicking debut album. My favorite song? All of 'em, but especially "If I Could". Buy this CD, play it often and loud, and thank the stars that performers like Sunny Sweeney, Heather Myles, Kasy Chambers and Amber Digby (to name a few) are out there making true country music.

Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame Poster

One spin through the debut of Austin-based singer-songwriter Sunny Sweeney and you may think you've entered a time warp: The Longview, Texas, native so hearkens to the honky-tonk era of the '60s and '70s that you half expect to find her on an old kinescope of one of those syndicated Nashville TV shows, the special guest ("Let's bring up a little gal now from Texas...") of the Wilburn Brothers or Porter and Dolly. Sweeney isn't a power vocalist--she'd be called a "girl singer" in the old days, stepping up demurely to do her song or two--but she's got a sense of humor, poking fun of herself on "Next Big Nothing" and insisting if you play one song in reverse, you get a broken heart. She can also cop an attitude when she wants, as on "Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame," an original tune where she evokes the good-ol'-gal assertiveness of Loretta Lynn. Sweeney has fine taste in covers, too, offering up Iris DeMent's 'Mama's Opry" and the Lacy J. Dalton hit "16th Avenue," as well as two songs by Jim Lauderdale, who lends his vocals to Keith Sykes's "Lavender Blue." Otherwise, Sweeney doesn't seem to care a flip about what's going on anyplace but right there in the Lone Star State, keeping things twangy, tangy, and tonkin', the teardrop pedal steel functioning almost as a duet vocalist, and her guitarists eschewing Music City formula riffs for stuttering electric solos and the occasional walking bass. It's been a long time since any young female--think Joy Lynn White, maybe--got this deep-dish country. Sweeney may never get on the radio, but she'll keep the sawdust swirling on the dance floor for a long time to come. --Alanna Nash
Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame, recorded in Floresville, TX and co-produced by Sunny with producers Tommy Detamore (guitar, pedal steel, lap steel, Dobro) and Tom Lewis (drums), isn't one of those quiet, timid little baby-steps records that slowly grows on you with hints of future potential. It explodes into the room with an ultra-confident, Texas-sized "HOWDY!" and demands your full attention.

Listen to Sunny rip and swagger her way through the dozen songs on Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame, and you wonder: Where has this gal been hiding until now? The first thing that grabs you is her voice - a big, bold and brassy instrument that brings to mind both the classic female country singers of the `60s and `70s that she grew up on as part of a country-music-loving family (both her grandfather and stepfather played in bands) as well as two of Sunny's biggest modern influences, Natalie Maines and Kasey Chambers, at their most unapologetically untamed. It's a voice that all but screams Sunny's adopted slogan: "Get your honky-tonk on!"

And on Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame, Sunny does just that. From winning originals like "Ten Years Pass," "Slow Swinging Western Tunes" and the title track, to classy covers of tunes by some of her favorite writers (including Iris DeMent, Keith Sykes, Thom Schuyler and Jim Lauderdale), it's an album that has little in common with either pop country or "Texas country." It's country, pure and simple - as primed for a Lone Star honky-tonk as it is the Grand Ole Opry or any radio station that still makes room for George and Tammy and Merle and Loretta.

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