Sunny Lowdown - Shady Deal

Size: 88,1 MB
Time: 37:43
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2019
Styles: Acoustic/Electric Blues, Juke Joint Blues
Art: Front

01. Satisfaction (4:57)
02. Christmas Eve Blues (4:28)
03. Travelin' Woman (3:35)
04. Sad Letter (4:06)
05. Tried And True (2:07)
06. Lightnin' Hop (3:14)
07. Clip On Man Bun Blues (2:55)
08. Wino Blues (Vote For Sunny 2020) (2:49)
09. Means To An End (3:36)
10. Sunny Shuffle (Tell Me What's The Reason) (3:21)
11. Chicken In A Basket (2:29)

"Shady Deal" is more swampy, lowdown blues from Sunny Lowdown, whose 2018 release, "Down Loaded", was nominated for a Blues Blast Music Award. "Shady Deal" has some surprises, including a steamy re-work of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction".

Sunny Lowdown's first release was entitled "The Blues, Volume Low", and that remains his approach to the blues. He takes his time, and doesn't hit you over the head. His power is in his tone and phrasing. You might call it a Clint Eastwood approach. No screaming, just a quiet "make my day" that send chills up your spine. From his swampy reworking of The Rolling Stones' "Satisfaction" to his stark "Christmas Eve Blues", to the romantic "Tried And True" and the hilarious whims of "Clip On Man Bun Blues", to the wild textures of "Chicken In A Basket" performed with The Uptown Food Syndicate, Sunny is his own man, giving you his own take on a world we all struggle with day to day. Sometimes it's a celebration. Often it's a shady deal.

“The absolute best of them can make the blues fresh and engaging every time, for anyone. Sunny Lowdown does that…Drive, spirit, spookiness—all the elements are here.” – Elmore Magazine

Shady Deal

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Sunny Lowdown - Down Loaded

Size: 102,8 MB
Time: 36:22
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2017
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Art: Front

01. Down Loaded (3:23)
02. Before I Leave This Town (2:28)
03. I Have My Troubles (3:36)
04. A Girl I Once Knew (2:35)
05. Gambling Blues (2:47)
06. Down Baby (3:02)
07. Ramblin' And Wanderin' (3:15)
08. You Never Can Tell (2:21)
09. Wondering And Worrying (2:49)
10. Texting Blues (2:41)
11. Rockin' My Boat (4:05)
12. That's Enough (3:16)

"Sunny plays great guitar" -- Blues Blast Magazine. "You can hear Sunny playing on street corners" - Blues Matters. “I’m down loaded, people I’m a hard driving man” Sunny Lowdown sings on the title track of his new CD Down Loaded. “I’m a steady streamer baby, doing the best I can”. Love hasn’t been going well lately for Sunny, and the language of Internet audio helps him paint a picture of his situation: “I’ve got a woman, my stream don’t do her no good. She’s been working a new playlist, out in another neighborhood.” Sunny Lowdown sings blues for the 21st century, and this second release is chock full of hard times and the humor required to get through them. Backing himself up with fine, muscular guitar picking, Sunny continues the tradition he began with his critically acclaimed first CD, “The Blues Volume Low”, which was selected as “Blues CD Of The Year” by Spokane Public Radio. Down Loaded contains 7 tracks penned by Sunny, and five tracks of traditional tunes reaching back to bluesmen like Li’l Son Jackson, J.B. Lenoir and Lightnin’ Hopkins. Sunny’s own tunes range from “Texting Blues”, about a couple who can’t sustain a conversation, to the aching longing of “A Girl I Once Knew”, to the toe tapping swing of the instrumental “That’s Enough”. It is soulful, heartfelt blues, the kind of blues that takes its time and only says what needs to be said -- not a word or note more.

Down Loaded

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Sunny Lowdown - The Blues Volume Low

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 38:29
Size: 88.1 MB
Styles: Contemporary blues
Year: 2014
Art: Front

[3:01] 1. Can't Be Satisfied
[3:04] 2. Hobo Blues
[3:25] 3. Mean Old World
[3:03] 4. First Chance Blues
[3:07] 5. Texas Blues
[3:22] 6. Tear My Playhouse Down
[2:38] 7. Cairo Blues
[2:38] 8. Big Town Playboy
[2:45] 9. Worried Life Blues
[4:00] 10. Red Devil Blues
[3:35] 11. Shotgun Blues
[3:19] 12. Ice Cream Man
[0:26] 13. Can't Be Satisfied (Banjo)

Sunny Lowdown plays the raw, deep blues, drawing from the music of John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Jesse Mae Hemphill and R.L. Burnside. Critics have described Sunny’s music as “swamp music”, but Sunny shuns labels. “I’m just me,” he says. “I call it Sunny side up.” Sunny was only sixteen when he first backed up bluesman John Lee Hooker. He went on to work with many of his favorite blues musicians: Howlin’ Wolf guitarist Hubert Sumlin, Muddy Waters pianist Pinetop Perkins, Chicago blues legends Otis Rush and George “Wild Child” Butler, Fat Possum recording artists R.L. Burnside and Cedell Davis, and others.

The Blues Volume Low is Sunny’s first solo release, a mixture of traditional blues tunes and tunes he has written himself. “I always liked the singers who could sit with just their guitar and tell you a story,” he says. “Whether they had written the song or not, they made it their story.”

The Blues Volume Low is Sunny’s story. Ten tracks with just Sunny and his electric or acoustic guitar, augmented by three tracks with his trio -- Sunny Bottom on bass, Sunny Tubs on drums. Rhythmic, and powerful, you won’t find many of Sunny’s chords in guitar books. “My music starts raw, and then I cook it up,” he says. “But I never overcook it."

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