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My name is Sunny Sweeney. I’m a Texas girl born and raised! I was raised up in northeast Texas in a town called Longview and now I live down in Austin, TX. I wake up every day and thank God that I can say I am a working musician! I cannot believe that this is what I get to do! I played my first real gig in Sept. 2004 at Austin’s Carousel Lounge. So many great things have happened since then and this blog is just testament to that. Who woulda thought that I’d be writing a blog for CMT? So here goes…

Last week, I went up to Washington, D.C. to co-host XM America Channel 10 with the on-air talents they have: Ray Knight, John Welch and Country Dan. I was on the air from 6 a.m. to midnight except when I went over to the Laura Ingraham show and the Voice of America show to play for a little while. I have never had so much fun! Ray Knight and I got along so well and it was like I was just his little sidekick! I wanna have a little show that I would call a “Ray of Sun” and it’s me and Ray Knight…Don’t ya like it?

I think I answered something like 500 phone calls in the all-day deal and met a bunch of my fans that happen to be a lot of truck drivers. I’ve also decided I am going to do a truck stop tour. I already bought a CB for the van and we are all coming up with our CB handles as we speak. I got some suggestions from the truckers that called in to XM and the front runner for me is “TWANG THANG,” that is unless you come up with something better.

The boys and I are leaving on Thursday for our first full-on Europe tour! We are touring in 5 countries, and we have a 9-day break while we are over there and I’m going to ITALY! I’m so excited! I’m gonna see the Pope and eat some awesome gnocchi…oh and buy some gorgeous shoes!

Hope to see y'all out and about soon! Make sure you come say hi!
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www.sunnysweeney.com
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