Sunny Sweeney - Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame
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Free Music Review: New sounding old fashioned tunes
Hit: 5 Stars
Sunny Sweeney is a very attractive young lady who has an exciting old time country record and a real good emotive country voice with a a set list of twelve very good songs by herself and some of country's best, including Jim Lauderdale. Sweeney has a way with a song and this Texas country soundin' band cooks with some great chickin' pickin' and plenty of great pedal steel and country fiddle.
Her songs range from rockabilly to hot Texas swing. I love the sound, her vocals are real country like the guitars and pedal steel. She really reminds me of nobody, but I love her sound. This disc will definitely get you moving. a lot of upbeat country rockers. Produced by Tommy Detamore and Tom Lewis, co-produced by Sunny Sweeney. Recorded, mixed, mastered by Tommy Detamore, who does more than an adequate job on this old timey masterpiece.
"Lavender Blue" with Jim Lauderdale is a very good country love song. The CD starts out rockin' with a song called "Refresh My Memory" ,this song moves real well and is the sign of things to come, with an acoustic/ electric sound. She has such great control over her vocals, and the country accent is real, growing up in Eastern Texas. She was fronting her first band in 2004, doing what she says is the hardest she ever worked in her whole life, but loving it. Her Label "The Big Machine" is a good label for an artist like herself. She really sounds like the real thing, "If I Could" is a hot cooking song that is super fast and definitely sounds live with audience sound.
"16th Avenue" - This song ends the disc, she shows how she can sing a slow ballad. What a voice, nice harmonica here. A song about people following their dreams. Some more great country guitar. What else can I say , but Sweeney is a refreshing artist, and this whole album refreshed my memory. Check this out!!!
Free Music Review: Sunny success!
Hit: 5 Stars
Spurred by her recent single/video release "A Table Away", we did a bit of research on Sunny Sweeney. A Texas club singer, she released this album on a tiny label and had it re-released a year or so later.
And it is a knockout!
The sound is pure country--simple arrangements featuring steel guitar, fiddles 'n all (actually the arrangements are somewhat thin on this early effort)--and Sunny's voice is unapologetically southern, a modified Appalachian soprano as la Elizabeth Cook and Miranda Lambert. Her background is roadhouse but her music is without the self-indulgent vulgarity and coarseness typical of that genre. You might have met her music in a bar but you could comfortably take it home to Mom and Dad.
Traditional country fans will love the old-fashioned "three-chord" songs about lovin', cheatin', and life. The strongest cuts are refreshingly (and nowadays almost surprisingly) clean and melodic. "Refresh My Memory" (a top-ten hit were it to be re-released today), "Lavender Blue" (a touch saccharin but catchy), "Please Be San Antone" and "Mama's Opry" are standouts.
Sunny has obviously been re-discovered and her "Table Away" has made the power rotation on CMT and on country radio and her new album is due out in March '11. Just a couple of years ago, Sweeney's style and tunes wouldn't garner a sniff from a country establishment bent on delivering same-sounding, pop singers and groups. But with the meteoric rise of Miranda Lambert, her voice and charmingly heavy drawl has become commercially acceptable. Now, if she just doesn't sell out....
A quintessential country album. Go out and get it.
Free Music Review: Country as a brown egg!
Hit: 5 Stars
I'd rather have someone waterboard me than be forced to listen to Tim McGraw groan his way through a redundantly syrupy American Idol-esque ballad. I grit my teeth to the excruciating Jamaican-themed cruise ship tripe cranked out from the alleged heterosexual Kenny Chesney via the Nashville assembly line. Big and Rich remind me of the Village People minus the indian and the army guy.
If you feel the same way- that today's "country" is NO WHERE NEAR the mark- then give this gal a listen! If you remember Dolly Parton, Kitty Wells, Donna Fargo, and Dottie West you'll love Sunny. Her music is new yet does a wonderful job at showcasing the legacy of roots country. If you've never heard of these ladies then you likely need to hear Sunny's music more than anyone!
True enough, there's something brewing in Texas akin to the outlaw movement fostered by Willie and Waylon in the 70's. Though Nashville continues to ignore it, artists like Sunny, Jamie Richards, Randy Rogers, and a host of others are getting plenty of attention through live shows, the internet, and word of mouth.
Why? The music: IT'S GENUINE. No Nashville glitz, lip synching, or pop sounding neo-country whatever-you-call-it crap. Just fiddle, steel, a few beers and a whole lot of talent. Imagine that!
Free Music Review: Catching Texas twang with a gift for lyrics
Hit: 5 Stars
Sunny Sweeney's debut album, Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame is compelling and catching. It feels more like a live honky-tonk performance in part because it has the pared down sound of a great bar band and not the over produced sound of too many studio albums. Sunny is a singer song-writer. The album offers a mix of her work and that of other song-writers.
What first caught my ear was the song, "If I Could." It's an infectious anthem for the average worker with an auctioneer's tempo for the catchy chorus. I found this song through Yahoo's Music Videos Country Music channel. Yahoo generates a play list, including new offerings based upon your past selections and ratings. It works. I loved this song and bought the album. A lot of catchy songs don't move me to buy. Sunny got my money.
Another special treat is a cover of, "16th Avenue," a song made famous by Lacey J. Dalton. The cover nicely matches the rest of the album in voice and tone and is not an exact copy of Dalton's version. Sunny Sweeney makes it hers.
The album is solid and engaging. It is real Country Music and Texas genuine. I'll be watching for more from Sunny Sweeney. She reputedly has a great following around her home base in Austin, Texas. I think her fan base is set to grow.
Free Music Review: INCREDIBLE VOICE !!! Wonderful CD !!!
Hit: 5 Stars
While listening to my XM radio in the car, I heard the most incredible voice singing Iris DeMent's song "Moma's Opry".... Thank goodness you can display the artist's name.
I immediately came to amazon.com to see if Sunny Sweeney had an album... and purchased this immediately!
Sunny has the great, twangy voice of the original country artists....
This is truly a CD that you'll play and enjoy over and over. I'm hoping she'll tour somewhere close to Baltimore so I can see her perform in person.
Wishing Sunny the great career she deserves.... Come on Nashville - take notice here !!!