#389 -Sunny Sweeney Getting Nominated for ACM Three Months After Getting Dropped From Label + Wanting to Quit Music to Being Featured in Country Music Hall Of Fame + Being Prepared To Be Alone + Writing A Letter To Emmylou Harris
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2023
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Sunny Sweeney stopped by Bobby's house to talk about her journey as a singer songwriter coming from Texas and trying to make it in Nashville. She talks about getting discovered on Myspace and signing her first record deal, to only be dropped from it, to three months later being nominated for an ACM Award. Sunny also discusses how she thought about quitting music until she kept receiving signs to keep going, like her most recent one of being featured in the Country Music Hall Of Fame. She also talks about the ups and downs of her personal life and the advice she'd give to people who want to pursue a music career. Sunny recently released a cover of Emmylou Harris song "Red Dirt Girl," and she talks about the seven-year process of recording that song and writing a letter to Emmylou asking if she'd sing harmonies on it!
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| 0:07.0 | I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister. |
| 0:11.0 | In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island. |
| 0:16.0 | A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger. |
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| 0:34.0 | When I got dropped from big machine, I gave myself 14 days on the last day at 5pm, the ACM's. |
| 0:41.0 | He said, we're not supposed to call you right now, but I just felt like you needed to know this today. |
| 0:45.0 | We're not announcing it to like mid-January, but you've been nominated for an ACM. |
| 0:50.0 | You know, some are massive van slash, almost tour bus slash. |
| 0:57.0 | I don't know, it was just awesome. |
| 0:59.0 | I got need one of these, I don't know why. |
| 1:00.0 | It's like a mini home on wheels. |
| 1:02.0 | Yeah, I saw it drive into the driveway and I was like, who is that? |
| 1:07.0 | And it turns out it was sunny. |
| 1:08.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:09.0 | And it's got like a big battering ram on the front of it and she talks about kind of why. |
| 1:13.0 | But not a real battering ram, but it does have look, you know, something on the front there. |
| 1:18.0 | There's been a mess with her, she can just drive into you. |
| 1:20.0 | But sunny Swini is our guest episode 389. |
| 1:23.0 | And so there's a lot we get into, really enjoyed this and it's rare that I get to talk to somebody that back in the day. |
| 1:30.0 | I bought tickets to watch. |
| 1:32.0 | And so I guess tickets, I think I just paid at the door for her shows. |
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