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Music CD - Sunny Sweeney: Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame
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Music CD: Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame
Artist: Sunny Sweeney
List Price: $12.98
Our Price: $6.80
Your Save: $ 6.18 ( 48% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Big Machine Records
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Tracks:
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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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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0857787001566
Label: Big Machine Records
Manufacturer: Big Machine Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Big Machine Records
Release Date: 2007-03-06
Studio: Big Machine Records
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame by Sunny Sweeney
Comment: I'm hooked! Sunny loves what she does and it shows. She's a natural. How on earth does she do "If I Could?" She could be an auctioneer in her day job but I'm pretty sure she won't have time for a day job. I look forward to following her performing career.
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Summary: INCREDIBLE VOICE !!! Wonderful CD !!!
Comment: 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 !!!
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Summary: Country as a brown egg!
Comment: 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!
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Summary: Real country music!
Comment: 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.
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Summary: great cd and even better live
Comment: I've seen her live in Austin a couple times now and it's always a great show. If you like her voice, check out Kasey Chambers. Sunny will actually do Kasey covers if you ask her. The first time I heard Sunny, I was at a bar meeting old friends, but ended up staying longer b/c I heard her singing. Great CD and definitely worth purchasing.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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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