Sunny Sweeney

Nashville Recording Artist Sunny Sweeney stopped by the show to talk about her new album and lots more! Tune in to hear more! 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, y'all, this is Nashville recording artist Sonny Sweeney, and
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
And welcome exad the Backstage Past. A busy month of
August here, and happy summer to everybody. I guess the
close of summer for some and back to work and
all that good stuff out there, but always tune in
here kyb in ninety eight point one, your Bay Area
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as well. She's one of the big stars in country

(00:44):
music and she's showing it out there with our brand
new record called Ryanstone Requiem. Sunny Sweeney one of our
favorites here. Back to the broadcast, Sunny, how we doing.

Speaker 3 (00:53):
I'm great, It's so good to see you again.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
It's been a hot minute since we last talked, and
I guess the year two. I guess time was gotten
away from everybody. I just came back from CMA Week,
you know, back out there fighting all the great traffic
and all the great interviews we captured during See My Week.
But I gotta lead off with it too, because we
get to play a couple of different songs from the
record today. Talk about this the project and just really
putting out a fresh set of songs for the fans,

(01:17):
and this particular record you have to be really excited about.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
I am.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
I mean, I went, you know, I went back down
to Texas to make this record, and I went down
to Floresville outside of San Antonio and went to Tommy
Delamore studio. It's called Cherry Ridge, which is coincidentally where
I recorded my first album twenty years ago.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
And it was just like kind of going home. It
was so weird.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
It was like using half the same players that I
used on my first record too, with the addition of Harley,
who I produced the record with. Harley Husband's he's my
guitar player. And then also Henry Herbert. So everybody else,
I think, R M. J. Clayton, everybody else they have
I have used for twenty years. I'm recording, so it's

(02:06):
kind of cool to just have a new batch of
country songs and take it to some really great you
know country pickers and let them see what they do
with it.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yeah, as you go through that process, is it like
nerve wrecking or is it like excitement or a little
bit of both When you're like, you know, I get
to put out a first set of songs. This one
might make make the record, this one might not. But
he choose to give you the process.

Speaker 4 (02:29):
Talk about that.

Speaker 3 (02:30):
For me, it's it is a process.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
But also I try to have to get too far
in my own way with it because you know, Harley
and I know the songs backwards and forwards. Because like,
if I write something, I usually let him hear it
is he'll give me an honest opinion if he likes
it or not, just as like a third party you know,
kind of knows. No, Like he's not going to say
I love a song if he doesn't love a song,

(02:54):
and he's not going to say I don't like a
song if it doesn't like a song. So I usually
give him a work tape and like let him hear
see what he thinks, and then he'll be like, wow,
that's really really good. Maybe we should put that on
the next record, or I don't know, maybe like for
a song swap or something, you know, like so it's
easy for me to get caught up in my own
way sometimes feeling pretty strongly about a song. But it's

(03:18):
usually I found the longer I have to do this
that it's more emotional, I guess. And so if I
take the emotion out of it and just like ask
him or my mom or someone else that I know
cares about me and likes my music but also will
be straight with me, you know, it's easier for me
to kind of narrow songs down that way.

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Speaker 4 (04:10):
Stay tuned. We're coming out.

Speaker 5 (04:22):
It's another Western morning.

Speaker 3 (04:27):
When I'm old enough.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
The wall.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
Too much to klam makes me wonder.

Speaker 3 (04:37):
Why I'm in all the medal?

Speaker 5 (04:42):
Why get that honkin talk.

Speaker 3 (04:47):
Every time y'all drun cold?

Speaker 5 (04:53):
I suppose that that's the reason.

Speaker 3 (04:57):
I mean all the way, So.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
I say time, can I well be going understand.

Speaker 7 (05:13):
I can't find it in your heart bad, I'm going
find it where I can refuse a lonely man, my lord,

(05:35):
I know just as it be.

Speaker 5 (05:40):
I just keep round pretending.

Speaker 8 (05:45):
What you've been giving me while getting that hopkin top field.

Speaker 5 (05:56):
Every time y'all strugle. I suppose that's the reason.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
I need all the wood, So.

Speaker 5 (06:11):
I'll say it, and I hope you on the stage.

Speaker 7 (06:22):
I can't find it in your her, baby, I'm gonna
go find you where I been, so say.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
I help you, aday, Kay, your harveywackey, we came, honey,
your Harvey.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
New wacky.

Speaker 9 (07:24):
Money, your surveywacky.

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Speaker 4 (09:44):
You know, this was a great way to really lead.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
Off the record, Sonny, I love this because had a
just a great feel for it, a kind of a
rustic Western kind of feel to it too. But I
love the title and this had to be a great
lead off for the album, right.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Well, so that's one of the two that didn't write,
but it's my faavorite song on the record. So I
am of the belief that I don't really care who
wrote the song. I don't care if your mother wrote
this song. I like the song, and the song's the
best song. I want to put that song on the record.
So I heard that and I sent it to Harley

(10:17):
in the middle of the night one night. I was like,
you have got to listen to this song, and it's
Jerry Lee. I heard Jerry Lee Lewis's version of it
and it was him and Mickey Gilly, who's his cousin.
You know, heard them gemming out live on it on
some deal on YouTube. I'd never heard it, which is
weird because I'm a giant Jerry Lee fan, but also
Waylon Jennings recorded it. Also didn't know that there's a

(10:40):
lot of people that have actually recorded it, but those
two are actually you know, I'm giant fans of both
of them, So I'm a little shock that I'd never
heard it before. But I think I heard it when
I was supposed to hear it. That's the way that
I looked at it. So anyway, I sent it to
him and I was like, we this is bad ass,
Like I love this song. He's like, oh my god,

(11:01):
it's so cool and so so from that bitut on,
that was definitely something we were recording. I'd never even
sung it, and I was like, I'm recording that song,
so anyway, Yeah, that it is a jam.

Speaker 3 (11:17):
It's a bob, as the kids say, it.

Speaker 4 (11:19):
Is the Bob, no doubt.

Speaker 2 (11:21):
I loved another one off there, as long as there's
a honkey talk, and I love it because nineties country
what I grew up on. Obviously, your big hit from
a Table the Way Too was so synonymous back then
too in twenty ten, but looking back at all these
great songs, that one had to be one of your
favorites to record because anything with honky talk and it
is a country song, right, So as.

Speaker 3 (11:39):
Long as there's a honkey talk. I wrote that with.

Speaker 1 (11:43):
My friends Buddy Owen's and Galen Griffin, and we write
quite a lot, and sometimes we just sit over there
and you know, talk and we don't really do anything.
We just like talk about live, end up not writing
or just like to sit there. But this particular night
we had sat there for a couple hours. We wrote

(12:05):
that earlier in the afternoon like kind of I don't
really want to write anymore, I'm kind of tired, And
then they let's just hang out. Let's go get some dinner,
and then we'll come back and see if we feel
like it. I was like whatever. So we came back
and we were talking about sitting at Buddy's house where
we write, and I said, I said, I just want

(12:26):
to go sit in a bar somewhere. Like neither of
them drink even drink, but I sit in a bar
and listen to a jukebox or something. And Buddy said, oh,
you feel more comfortable in a bar than you do
at my house. And so we started laughing about that,
and that's where the idea came from. Just like, yeah,
actually I do, and so do they. I mean, like
that's just kind of what we you know, we used

(12:48):
to go honky talking all the time. Now everything's so different,
especially in Nashville, Like it's the clubs downtown are not
the same as they were, you know, And uh, whenever
I find like a little honky tonk bar, I kind
of get a little nostalgic and kind of just want
to sit there on those vinyl seats and let my
legs stick to them, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 3 (13:10):
And it just kind of is a little nostalgic. I
don't know.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
No, it's great to maybe think so much about hockey
talks of going back to the nineties and having fun
with that. Like I said, the neon kind of feel
too a the neon side.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
I love.

Speaker 2 (13:23):
That's what it made me feel. Like you said that
little you know, legstick into something a little seat or
a cubby, and then you got a little bit like
I said, looking out there trance floor is pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (13:31):
Yeah, I know, and I played.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
I played, you know, in Austin for so many years
at those little tiny dog bars, and like they all
tend it's so hot Texas. I mean, I don't need
to tell anyone that's texting out, but it's so hot.
So you know during the summer, you know, everybody's wearing shorts,
and like you have these boots that are vinyl. I've

(13:54):
always wondered that I kind of wanted to start a petition,
like can't we make these boots cloth, like you know,
like in a restaurant or in a bar.

Speaker 3 (14:04):
It's so gross.

Speaker 2 (14:09):
On this latest wave of crop of talent, this is crazy.
Everybody you could mention from uh what Laney's done over
the past few years to just continue to pave the
way and it takes me back to when you came
through and even nineties ladies doing their thing out there too,
And like I said, eight to Z you can name
them and they're they're doing their thing.

Speaker 4 (14:26):
Give me, how does it fuel you? Especially with the
new music.

Speaker 2 (14:28):
Obviously maybe got your own sound and quality, but how
cool is it to see these ladies finally getting the
respect they deserve across just mainstream radio now?

Speaker 3 (14:38):
I mean, I think that's great.

Speaker 1 (14:39):
I you know, love when anyone has a dream and
you know, and they accomplish it.

Speaker 2 (14:47):
Yeah, And like I said, these ladies are you mentioned?
I mean Ella Langley, Priscilla Block. And I love it
because I interview more females than I new males on
the show. Just how it works out here. It just
happens that way here on the show. So I love
seeing just and it's all about the songs because you
know that and you've written for a lot time, You've
done this thing music for a long time, Like one
song could just change everything and it did that for you.
Does it ever get old talking about from a table
to lay or is that something that every time you

(15:08):
hit the stage. It's pretty cool to see the fans
just talk about it, sing it and do all that
good stuff.

Speaker 1 (15:13):
Well, I will always be grateful for that song and
for the other songs that that record label put out.
But that was a really dark time in my life,
and I call it my time on the Artist Protection Program.

Speaker 3 (15:25):
It was just like, it's not, it's not.

Speaker 1 (15:29):
I had this conversation actually this morning with a friend
that's on a label and she is a little she
was just asking me, like, you know, does this ever end?
Like does the does the stress ever end with this?
And like you have all these people doing all these
jobs for you, and you have, you know, someone doing

(15:52):
every single aspect of your job, and like artwork, picking
out pictures, setting up the photoshoot, someone do it's all.
There's everything's covered. All you have to do is stand
on stage and be an artist. But for me, personally,
I felt like I lost myself and all that because
I am very much I want to be. I'll never

(16:15):
not be involved in my business ever again, Like I
just I won't. So for me that didn't work, but
for a lot of people it does work. And I
think it's just different, you know, I think just you know,
I'm grateful that, you know, I had the opportunity to
have those songs, and I had a lot of exposure
that I wouldn't have had otherwise. So I'm very very

(16:37):
grateful for that. But honestly, I'm pretty content where I'm
at right now, because I mean, I'm making the music
I want to make. We don't have to have an
A and R meeting to decide what songs are going
on the record, to let someone that isn't a musician
or an artist decide what I need to record as

(16:58):
an artist. So there's I've been a little weird about
that to me. So for me, this is what works.

Speaker 3 (17:05):
And I have found.

Speaker 1 (17:07):
A wonderful group of people that I work with, you know,
and from the band that travels with us, to you know,
my guitar player, which coincidentally is my boyfriend as well,
but also my tour manager, my booking agent, you know,
just kind of you just it's for me, it works.

(17:28):
I don't know, I can't That's what I told her
this morning. I said, I can't tell you what to do.
I'm just telling you. I only have my experience to
full from, So I don't know what to tell you
other than what I'm telling you, And it's all from
my experience, that may not be at all what you
want to do.

Speaker 3 (17:43):
You know, She's like, I know, it's just like so tiring.

Speaker 1 (17:45):
I said, Oh yeah, I was so tired and hungry.

Speaker 2 (17:50):
To make the next like I said, to make the
next rent payment everything. And you guys just scratch and
dig and clawing.

Speaker 3 (17:55):
In the right. Yeah, that's it. That's exactly it. And
you know, And and.

Speaker 1 (18:00):
The girl that I was talking to, she said, she
said it's hard because she said, do I want to
like make a living and have a chance to like
have some success and not have to worry about where
my money's coming from every single month?

Speaker 3 (18:19):
And I said, I mean, you know, I've been on
both sides of that.

Speaker 1 (18:23):
And for me, I you know, I don't know that
I would do that again.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I don't know that I would.

Speaker 1 (18:30):
I just I know myself and I know that I
just feel a lot happier being able to make my
own choices because then if something messes up, it's me
and it's my fault, so I can only get mad
at myself, and I don't have anyone else to blame
anything on.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
So I feel like I might be it might be
it kind of.

Speaker 1 (18:56):
You've known me a long time, so you probably like.

Speaker 2 (19:00):
You know it's working for you, and what's working for you,
as I saying anything out there and anything in life,
it works for you. You don't have to please anybody else
because exactly.

Speaker 1 (19:09):
Yes, that's exactly right. And so that's what I told her.
I said, this is only my experience. I cannot tell
you what. I can tell you what my opinion is
of what you're asking me, but it may not be
what you want to hear. So I'll just give you
my example of when I was in the exact same position.
I was longing to get out of that record deal

(19:30):
so bad because I was just like I ended up
having the three singles that they released in the A
and R meetings, those are the ones they chose not
to use initially, so including from a table away. So
I don't know, I just I just feel really strongly
about letting artists pick the songs and let the let

(19:52):
the artist fall on the sword if shit goes wrong
like instead of because then the artist has no one
to blame except themselves.

Speaker 3 (20:00):
Elves.

Speaker 1 (20:00):
You know, I think we'd have a lot more variation
of music if we did that.

Speaker 2 (20:06):
Oh, I heartily agree, no doubt about it too as well.
Reinstrong Requiem from Sonny swingey across all the DSPs out there.
We're gonna play another one from the record now, Diamonds
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as diamonds and divorce decrees from Sunny Sweeney, Stay tuned, Mordica.
He thunk leaving me.

Speaker 5 (20:36):
He's gone be the don me without him. I have
somehow my sanity now thirty regainn out of this play
sim In Where's it?

Speaker 3 (20:55):
Godlin, don't May?

Speaker 9 (20:57):
Where to sign again?

Speaker 5 (21:03):
I'm stuck between I do and I'll never do that again,
between happy after the cold.

Speaker 7 (21:14):
I'd bitter him.

Speaker 5 (21:16):
Our fairy tale man right to tell, and I'm stuck
here between.

Speaker 7 (21:25):
A dime no out a buce degree.

Speaker 8 (21:34):
I've played the car with a broken harm or way too,
and I'm overget over him and what he did right.

Speaker 3 (21:47):
He sor and kind of single.

Speaker 5 (21:49):
It's okay, don't they gonna let.

Speaker 3 (21:52):
That a long hair down? So all on the judge
do what he does. I can't wait till that's me.

Speaker 9 (21:59):
I'm stuck between I did well, never do that again,
between Happier after and the cold Hot bitter In and I'm.

Speaker 5 (22:16):
Fairy Tell when Pride to Hell and I'm stuck here
in between a dime and a divorce decree. I'm stuck

(22:45):
between I did and I'll never do that again, between
happy and after, the cold on bitter In and I'm
fairy Tale and ride here seams agree.

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Speaker 2 (25:04):
Back here on the show call. It's a triple D
song here. It's not like the old Guy Fieri Show.
It's Sonny Sweeney, diamonds and divorce decrees here the Backstage
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(25:26):
it triple D because that's exactly what it's talking about there.
It's telling a story. I love this song, that's all.
We had the feature here on the show talk about this.

Speaker 4 (25:33):
One for us.

Speaker 1 (25:35):
Well, it's kind of a silly, a silly idea sort
of that I ended up really just loving. I wrote
that Buddy and Galen, Like I said earlier same day,
I wrote, as long as there's a honky tonk with them, and.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
That one I had.

Speaker 1 (25:53):
I had been living at my parents' house after I
got divorced because I didn't have anywhere to go, and so.

Speaker 3 (25:59):
I call my mom and asked, you know, if I
could move back in with them.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
She's like, oh, of course, we've always wanted our forty
five year old daughter to move back in with us.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
This would be great.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
So I moved back in with them for a little bit,
and then when I finally moved out, I took all
my stuff with me.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Except I left my safe, and all that was.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
In that was my diamonds from my grandmother and my
two divorce decrees. And so my mom kept telling me
to come get my safe. It's in her way. I said, ma'mna,
chill out. I'll get it when I get it whatever.
So long story short, I said, anyway, Mama, that's in
there is my diamonds and divorce decrees.

Speaker 3 (26:44):
And then I was going to Buddies that night and
I thought, if I.

Speaker 1 (26:46):
Do note that song, I will get my country music
singer card revoked.

Speaker 3 (26:54):
So I told them about it and we run right
away when I got over there. Thanks Buddy.

Speaker 4 (27:01):
To come together.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
Uh, this is one to take on the chin here,
but I love it last hard Bible, and this is
something right here that fans could definitely originate and kind
of resonate with a little bit too.

Speaker 4 (27:11):
Tell us a little backstory.

Speaker 3 (27:13):
So that's a Kasey Chambers song.

Speaker 1 (27:17):
It was on her first record, The Captain, which I'm
a massive fan of, and I've threatened to record that
song three or four times prior, but it never really.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
Fit the vibe of what I wanted to fit in.
So I waited.

Speaker 1 (27:38):
And then this year when we were making this record
or last year, I was going through songs and I
was like, you know what, this tempo would go really
well on this record. And then I thought, you know
what I'll do. Maybe I'll see if Kasey Chambers will
sing harmony on it. So I reached out to her dad,

(28:00):
who I'm friends with. He had me reach out to
her brother, who I'm also friends with, and then her
brother reached out to her and she was in the
middle of a book tour. She's got Australian She was
in the middle of a book tour that she had
just put out, and so it kind of took a
long time because they were like, well, she'll do it,
but it'll be a while and I can't really give
you a date. And I was like, eh, I don't

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know what the you know, turnaround thing that I need
is going to be.

Speaker 3 (28:26):
So anyway, she ended up singing.

Speaker 1 (28:29):
On it just one random day and Nash, her brother
called me and was like, all right, Casey's putting her
vocals on there and I'll do mine later because he
was doing the mail harmony And anyway ended up way cool. Well,
then we went on tour with her. She did a
US tour. We just did that like last month, I
think for I think that was in June. I can't remember, anyway,

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And we sang that together for the first time on
that tour, so it was awesome.

Speaker 3 (28:55):
It's like very very full circle for me.

Speaker 2 (29:00):
Cool feeling, awesome, feeling there. I love this because we're
right next door to it down here, and you know
Texas very well. You mentioned playing all these dive bars
down here too. Houston belongs to me, so I'm like, man,
this is a great title. It pulled me in no doubt,
it did well.

Speaker 3 (29:15):
That's a song that honestly is just about a relationship.
You know, when.

Speaker 1 (29:22):
You're in a relationship with someone far away, like long distance,
and then they moved to your town and then you
all break up. They don't get to stay there like
they have to go.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
So that's that song.

Speaker 4 (29:35):
About country music. Goodbye. That's it. You talent.

Speaker 2 (29:43):
You know, we had a great success this year with
C a Week. It's always kind of cool. Discovery mentioned
that new talent there too. But Nashville is no shortage
of like a test market for restaurants. I'm always like
just intrigued by what is opening up. So I went
to Midtown and got the Tragic three one two pizza
Chicago Style, which was really good. When you go back
and you get to see some of the restaurants, kind

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of a two part of here, what's some of your
favorite foods to kind of go to get out there too?
And anything you new you've tried in Nashville that you
like in Nashville. Yeah, just restaurants.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
Well, I mean I live there now, so I mean
I you know, I do spend a lot of time
going out to eat because when we're home, we don't
really feel like cooking that much. So there's a couple
places out in Hendersonville where we live that we really like.
But then in Nashville, I love I'm not a vegan

(30:36):
at all, like zero, I eat meat all the time,
but I love vegan food if someone else makes it.
And there's a place called Sunflower that's all vegan, and
they have this it sounds gross, but it's a beat
hamburger patty, like it's I love beats, and it's made
out of beats and it comes on this.

Speaker 3 (30:56):
Big bed of lettuce.

Speaker 1 (30:58):
So it sounds really gross, but it is so good,
and so I like eating there. And then there's also
a couple of steakhouses I really like in Nashville, Stony
River being one of them. I think that's kind of
super underrated in that town. Actually it's a good they
got a they got a good piece of meat.

Speaker 2 (31:16):
Like you too, how many vegetables? When it comes out,
I'm a meet type person there. Back record Ryan so Requiem,
which is out across all the DSPs is Tonight the Night,
Make you a Memory. I want to know all about
this one.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
That one. I wrote that with Aaron Enderlin and Ben Chapman.

Speaker 1 (31:37):
And Ben's Aaron's one of my best friends, and we
write all the time together and we usually do us too,
and then one of us will bring a third in,
like just to kind of like broaden our rider's circle
or whatever, and so she brought Ben in one day.
I was like, oh my god, this guy's incredible. His
voice is so good and he sings and plays his

(31:58):
guitar plays that as off.

Speaker 3 (32:00):
He's so good.

Speaker 1 (32:01):
And anyway, we wrote that on Aaron's porch one day
and Aaron started singing it at shows and I went
to one of her shows and look like dang, So
I put it on my list because you never know
people are going to end up recording something when you

(32:22):
write with another artist, that's the kind of caveat to
the situation is you have to decide not. I mean,
but of course you both can record it, but it'd
be cool if you didn't, you know. So when she
started singing it, I put it on my list in
case she didn't record it.

Speaker 3 (32:41):
That would never you know. Usually it's just who starts
singing it first. That's kind of my role at least.

Speaker 1 (32:46):
So anyway, she was going in to make the record
around the same time, and I was asking her. I said, so,
are you putting that on your record or not. She's like,
I don't think so. I don't think it's vibing with
what I'm doing. I was like, cool, well, I am so.
But Harley thinks that's probably the last time I talked

(33:07):
to him about it, he said that was one of
his favorites.

Speaker 4 (33:10):
I love it. Great song.

Speaker 2 (33:11):
Off There again, Ryan still Rick whim across all the
DSPs out there and make sure you guys go download
and stream Sonny's music out there. And the Fantastic album
Too just came out August. The first attainment my Everyone's
off there too. I drink well with others. We all
have had those nights where you do right, you do,
and when you go.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
You try to be good and you like sit at
home and then you're just sitting there and you're like,
I could go out and see a show or hang
out with my friends, you know.

Speaker 3 (33:41):
And again that's probably in theory.

Speaker 1 (33:44):
That's like Sonny in her twenties like going out every
night because if I'm home now, I'm like sitting on
my couch like I'm we're we're we work a lot,
and so it's really nice to just have like some
decompression time when you're home, you know.

Speaker 4 (34:01):
No doubt about it.

Speaker 2 (34:02):
And I'm a dad now too, so it's kind of
cool being home with a daughter and enjoined time to
do that. Yeah, she's five years old now, she has
this Journey's been cool. But she's actually singing some Sunny
Sweeney songs just so you know, Oh.

Speaker 3 (34:13):
That is too cute. Are you serious?

Speaker 4 (34:16):
Serious? She is good?

Speaker 3 (34:17):
My god, send me video that. That's so adorable.

Speaker 2 (34:20):
I will do that in the pictures and everything too
as well. Once we get her tonight, you will get
that from me, no doubt about it. Hey, October eighth,
We're gonna definitely push it out through too, because I
love the place, got that old rustic feel to it.
Doci Dough in the Woodlands Sunny Sweeney Show with a
full band. I can't wait to be there. Glad you
let us promote this to sell some tickets out there.
Sunnysweeney dot com for more information, tell us all about

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it because it is always a great place to see
a live show. And I love it because I know
a lot of times you get great food, they're great drinks.
You guys have to be excited to sell this this
place out it is.

Speaker 3 (34:52):
And it's one of my favorite places to play in
the area.

Speaker 1 (34:55):
I always kind of have loved playing there, but this
is a little bit different.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
It's a songwriter.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
Series, so basically it's put on and the host of
the show sits on stage with us, and like we
basically chat and then we talk and then we play
some songs. Then we talk some more, and then we
chat and then we play some songs. So it's really

(35:20):
interesting and I prefer that actually because it's a seated show,
and I know the tickets are going pretty fast already
and it's not even until October, so I would definitely,
you know, if you're planning on going. I would definitely
try to grab your tickets now because it gets pretty
pretty thin towards the end.

Speaker 3 (35:44):
For seat choice and stuff.

Speaker 1 (35:46):
But the food at that place, God, we talk about
the food.

Speaker 3 (35:51):
It's so good. I always it's.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
So important when you're on the road and you can
get a hot meal. It's just it's a it's a
vibe changer, you know where.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Don't get me wrong.

Speaker 1 (36:04):
I'll eat in a truck stop and eat a granola
bar and a slum gem and a fake Newton if
I have to, because I do not.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Like being hungry.

Speaker 1 (36:11):
But I will say sitting down on a table and
eating a warm meal is very important. So when you
get to play at some of these venues that have
a restaurant like attached to it or whatever, it's really nice.

Speaker 3 (36:26):
And especially if they have that good of food. And
those who go's got good food.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Really has no doubt out there too, love looking forward
to being your guest. They're looking forward to promoting that show,
stelling some more tickets and coming to see you guys
at that writers around there too. Hey, how do you
take care of the instrument? I said? You guys keeps
you guys making the money, no doubt, paying the rent.
What's your secret taking care of the vocal corps?

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Well, I never really had a secret. I never It
was kind of a it's a good question because it's
a weird deal. But I never lost my voice, like
eighteen years or six seventeen years, whatever it is.

Speaker 3 (37:02):
I never lost my voice ever.

Speaker 1 (37:05):
Like I think I had the flu once and I
kind of had to skip a show or something, but like,
I just did never lose my voice. And then in
twenty twenty two, I started losing my voice a lot,
and I was like, what is going on? And I
ended up having to cancel like a whole run, like
a six week tour while we were on tour.

Speaker 3 (37:27):
And.

Speaker 1 (37:29):
I was petrified, and I found out that it was
I went to Vanderbilt in Nashville, the voice Clinic, and
have a thing called muscle tension dysphonia, which you know,
I don't ever mind talking about something like that, because
if I would have.

Speaker 3 (37:46):
It's almost like people that have it.

Speaker 1 (37:48):
There's a lot of people that have it, but a
lot of people don't want to talk about it because
they feel like it's sort of like a tattoo on
them or something. But honestly, if I would have been
able to find other people that at it, I would
have not worried as much because it's completely you can
you can completely control it with stretches. Basically, it's your

(38:10):
muscles in your neck shrink up and squeeze your voice
box so it can all be controlled. But like I
was thinking, this is it? Like what am I going
to do? You know, like, oh my god, this is
I guess this is it? You know, how how will
I ever work again? And Vanderbilt hooked me up.

Speaker 3 (38:32):
Man. They just it's all vocal stretches.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
But what it comes from is stress, and and uh
that's ultimately what it comes from. So you know, indie
artists have a lot of stress. I mean all artists
have a lot of stress, but indie artists, I know,
speaking from experience, we do everything ourselves and I have
a lot of unnecessary stress at that point, and it

(38:57):
just caused a lot of tension, which squeezed my neck
and squeezed my voice box and it was just making
it hard to come making the noise hard to come out.
And then that went on for like that. I went
to physical therapy every day. I took off man for
two months. I think I went every day and since

(39:19):
then I haven't had a problem.

Speaker 2 (39:22):
At least you've got somebody I would give you that
great feedback.

Speaker 4 (39:25):
You need it.

Speaker 1 (39:26):
Yeah, yeah, because I mean I didn't know like do
I have vocal nodes or whatever you call them, or
like did I rip something or do I have yah
throat cancer?

Speaker 3 (39:36):
I didn't know what I had. I was like, what
is going on? And I just literally muscles.

Speaker 1 (39:43):
And since I've had it and talked to my friends
about it, there's three or four of my very good
friends that have had bouts with this where I had
no idea they even had it.

Speaker 3 (39:52):
Like everybody just keeps it to themselves.

Speaker 1 (39:55):
So it's kind of I feel like talking about things
like that makes A makes you more human and B
you will inevitably find someone that you find solidarity with
that can help you understand what you're going through.

Speaker 3 (40:09):
You know, same big with songs.

Speaker 2 (40:11):
Really yeah, absolutely, no doubt too. Well, this record is fantastic.
She's wearing a hat saying that ain't country, but you
know what she is country. No doubt about it too
when it comes out to it. Sunnysweney dot com. Those
tickets October eighth, The Woodlands at Dosy Doe will be
there as the Backstage Pass powered by the Sports Guys
Podcast dot com and KYBN ninety eight point one, your
Bay Area broadcasting network, and also th WN dot org.

(40:33):
Anytime iHeartRadio podcast make sure you get those tickets and
go download Ryanstone Requiem across all the DSPs out there. Sonny,
we appreciate the time, always a dear friend to the show.
Continue success going forward. I'll see you October eighth out
there at DOCY. Do appreciate you being here.

Speaker 3 (40:48):
You're so sweet, Thank you so much.

Speaker 4 (40:50):
You got it one of the best out there to
do it.

Speaker 2 (40:52):
Sundaysweeney dot com and of course Ryanstonerequie on the current
album across all the DSPs. We'll talk to you guys
on the flip sides. Thanks to all the work the sponts. Dude,
We'll see you, so take care, God bless.

Speaker 12 (41:03):
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Speaker 1 (41:12):
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