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	• Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame Sunny Sweeney Big Machine Records, 2007 average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

New sounding old fashioned tunes

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!!!

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Down Home Texas Country

Sunny Sweeney, an East Texas girl, has put forth a fantastic collection of songs, some written by her. Sweeney has a rather unique voice which comes across as so natural. The selection of songs she choose is perfect for this Big Machine CD release. This is one of those CDs that really deserves to be heard. This is a talent that should not get lost in the maze of new artists.

Country as a brown egg!

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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Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame by Sunny Sweeney

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.

INCREDIBLE VOICE !!! Wonderful CD !!!

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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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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