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The new Sonny & the Sunsets record is a country record. It’s a break up record. Love and Heartache. Every song was written during and is about his break up with his girlfriend of ten years.

The songs came fast and naturally so Smith let the next record be something different, he embellished his Sunsets with members of his country band The Fuckaroos. Recorded to tape in a musty beer stained basement, what transpired was a classic country record.

Smith grew up listening to old time music, his dad is a banjo player and his parents and friends played old time music. “It was around the house, but I didn’t like it!” recalls Sonny. “My dad played banjo and his friends would come over and play fiddle and mandolin. But I would go watch tv or listen to AC/DC.”

However, some kind of country strain sank in. Gene Clark, The Flying Burrito Brothers, a little Johnny Cash, even the countrier side of the Kinks – there are hints of all of these in the new record and yet ultimately it still remains a Sonny & the Sunsets sound through and through.

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