{"id":3982,"date":"2011-10-30T19:08:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T02:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3982"},"modified":"2011-11-02T01:08:34","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T08:08:34","slug":"sunny-sweeney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/10\/sunny-sweeney\/","title":{"rendered":"SUNNY SWEENEY"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-SUNNY-SWEENEY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3983\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-SUNNY-SWEENEY.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-SUNNY-SWEENEY.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/M-Review-SeptemberOctober2011-SUNNY-SWEENEY-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>S<\/strong><strong>UNNY SWEENEY<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Concrete<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Big Machine]<\/p>\n<p>Smart storytelling songs with compelling melodies and rootsy but not anachronistic settings; dashes of wit amid adult settings involving cheaters and leavers and stayers. Singing that\u2019s pitch-true without having been Auto-Tuned into submission. Ah, so it must be Americana, yes? No, Sunny Sweeney\u2019s <em>Concrete<\/em> is a genuine contemporary country contender, released on a major label and already sporting a Top 10 country hit in \u201cFrom a Table Away.\u201d If we want to go with hope over cynicism, we could consider the Texas-reared Sweeney part of a refreshing mini-movement that\u2019s cutting through the radio schlock: <em>Concrete<\/em> stands as a worthy colleague to Miranda Lambert\u2019s <em>Revolution<\/em>, Jamey Johnson\u2019s <em>The Guitar Song <\/em>and other recent works of vibrant country neo-realism. Highlights include \u201cThe Old Me,\u201d a grinning study of internal conflict, and the poignant \u201cAmy,\u201d in which\u2014in a 180-degree turn on modern, soccer-mom country\u2014the other woman confronts a betrayed wife. \u2013Peter Cooper<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUNNY SWEENEY Concrete [Big Machine] Smart storytelling songs with compelling melodies and rootsy but not anachronistic settings; dashes of wit amid adult settings involving cheaters and leavers and stayers. Singing that\u2019s pitch-true without having been Auto-Tuned into submission. Ah, so it must be Americana, yes? No, Sunny Sweeney\u2019s Concrete is a genuine contemporary country contender, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,1173,2664,2615,2665],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4092,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3982\/revisions\/4092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}