| Sonny & The Sunsets / Longtime Companion |
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| Album: | Longtime Companion | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Sonny & The Sunsets | Added: | Jul 2012 | |
| Label: | Polyvinyl Record Co. | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2012-07-15 | Pull Date: | 2012-09-16 |
| Week Ending: | Sep 9 | Sep 2 | Aug 26 | Aug 12 | Aug 5 | Jul 29 | Jul 22 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Feb 27, 2015: | The Sunset Life (Shayde Sartin and Sonny Smith are Cool Guys) I Was Born | 4. | Apr 25, 2013: | Daydream Disaster Pretend You Love Me | |
| 2. | Apr 23, 2014: | Whatever the Hippies Want, Bitch! Pretend You Love Me | 5. | Apr 09, 2013: | Home Free Pretend You Love Me | |
| 3. | May 16, 2013: | Daydream Disaster Sea Of Darkness | 6. | Dec 08, 2012: | Buford J. Sharkley's Top of 2012 Tracks Whatever I Was Born |
| Album Review |
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| Wallace Brontoon Reviewed 2012-07-16 | ||
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Reviewed by Hervey Okkles, 7-14-2012 Sonny Smith expresses his heartache over his ten-year relationship coming to an end, by turning The Sunsets into a country-rock band, to GREAT results. Sonny Smith is a hell of a talented guy, a master of any genre he touches (seriously, check out the 100 Records project...), but here, he pounds out a unified and REALLY solid pure country/folk album. Give it a shot, it grows on you. Almost all tracks are equally great. No FCCs. 1 (3:45) **** Bruised straight-ahead upbeat folk, with scratchy delivery. "Am I really here?" Halfway through, it's joined by a garden of woodwinds, and it's all very pretty. They get really chirpy right at end. 2 (3:02) *** Beery strumming angry honky-tonker. GREAT hooks and texture. This is everything you want from a heartbroken honky-tonk dude. 3 (4:19) *** Muffled instrumentation accentuates the heartbreak, wistful and catchy, but sad sad folk. 4 (5:37) **** More of a '60s jammy folk-rock vibe (think Byrds), but the same spectrum of heartache and wistfulness. Psychey flutes and whatnot join before long. Really nice, great hooks. 5 (5:44) **** More of a straightforward twangy Marty Robbins type. Shaggy, halfassed (but charming) story of animals ("In the year of the cock, I was the flea") Attempts at Dylanesque wordplay. 6 (2:37) *** Slide guitar! Morose flute! Driving country, with a purpose. More woodwinds! Instrumental, echoes Dylan's "Nashville Skyline" more than a little. 7 (2:59) *** Sunshiney classic country, with his deflated putdown ("I look into your eyes, I see the void.") Sour half-singing. 8 (2:58) **** More slide-guitar, whimsical but acid country ("Time will tell if we stick together") Pure Burrito Brothers. God, Sonny Smith has a gift for hooks. 9 (2:49) *** More of the same, with a mock-gospel breakdown halfway thru ("Oh please; oh please") His mind is messed up all the time. Great steel guitar solo. 10 (4:25) *** A more Motown-influenced melody, with chorus in background, but funky organ grounds everything. Steel guitar gives it the country sound, but the flutes, too! It's a real mutt. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | I Was Born | 6. | Rhinestone Sunset | |||
| 2. | Dried Blood | 7. | I See The Void | |||
| 3. | Children Of The Beehive | 8. | Sea Of Darkness | |||
| 4. | Pretend You Love Me | 9. | My Mind Messed Up | |||
| 5. | Year Of The Cock | 10. | Longtime Companion |