{"title":"Sunny War Music","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSunny War is more than just an artist; she is a force of nature that is tough to pin down. What exactly is her style? Blues \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eor punk?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eYes, she may be a Robert Johnson with a shot of Bad Brains, but even this description falls short. The only way to really know Sunny is to immerse oneself in the music. Easy enough, right?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"simple-syrup-cd","title":"Sunny War - Simple Syrup CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSunny War - Simple Syrup has a vibrant, loose feel, more focused on the interplay with the musicians than before. Sunny’s new songs touch on everything from romance to politics, jumping easily between larger concepts like the expectations for famous Black women in American art (“Like Nina”) and smaller ideas like “Kiss A Loser”, her ode to her own drunken self in relationships. One of the more powerful songs on the album, “Deployed and Destroyed” is about a friend that Sunny knew from the streets. A veteran of the Iraq Wars, she watched him fall apart from PTSD, another vet who was unable to get the care he needed and is now homeless and suffering from severe mental trauma. Watching so many friends fall apart under the pressures of COVID–losing jobs, being left\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebehind–motivated Sunny to do more, to make change.\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSurrounded by relentless pressures from societal change, Sunny worked more closely with her community and embarked on a nearly year-long recording spree that brought two EPs (one of which, Can I Sit With You?, made a number of Best of 2020 lists) and now Simple Syrup coming in March 2021. The pandemic has been a crucible for Sunny, burning away the parts of the old world that didn’t truly matter and leaving her with a new purpose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRecord label: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Hen House Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\"\u003eHen House Studios\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, produced by Harlan Steinberger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hen House Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452116758837,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1996\/7285\/products\/a0949981843_16.jpg?v=1676438441"},{"product_id":"sunny-war-shell-of-a-girl-cd","title":"Sunny War - Shell of a Girl   CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eReleased on the heels of her critically acclaimed 2018 album, With the Sun, Sunny War’s new album finds her a little bit older, a little bit more mature, but looking back on the rocky roads of her past with a surprising amount of nostalgia. Shell of a Girl, coming June 14, 2019 on Hen House Studios with vinyl released by Org Music, was written in a burst of creativity in Los Angeles, and marks a new transition period, with Sunny moving from the Venice Beach boardwalk, where she first made her name, to the streets of downtown Los Angeles. Holed up in a studio apartment in an old halfway house that’s rumored to be haunted, Sunny muses “I think I’ve heard ghosts, but I’ve always heard ghosts everywhere.” These ghosts are reflected in the songs on the new album, either through\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e the ghosts of friends who’ve passed away, \u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_0\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efrom overdose or accident, or in the ghosts of who she used to be. “I feel like I’ve tricked myself into trying to be a part of the system that I swore I’d never participate in,” she says. “Now I’m worried about moving from a studio to a one-bedroom. It bums me out when the thing I’m happy about is paying the light bill. I’m never happy about something that’s real anymore.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRecord label: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Hen House Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\"\u003eHen House Studios\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, produced by Harlan Steinberger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hen House Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452485923125,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1996\/7285\/products\/a0869076564_16.jpg?v=1676440678"},{"product_id":"sunny-war-with-the-sun-cd","title":"Sunny War - With The Sun CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e It’s no secret that great art comes from the margins. From those who are either pushed to create from inner forces, or who create to show they deserve to be recognized. Los Angeles-based street singer, guitarist, and roots music revolutionary Sunny War has always been an outsider, always felt the drive to define her place in the world through music and songwriting. As a young black girl growing up in Nashville, she searched for her own roots, looking first to the blues she heard from her mother’s boyfriend, and learning from a local guitarist. Moving to Los Angeles in her teens, she searched for herself in the LA punk scene, playing house shows with FIDLAR, and shoplifting DVDs from big box stores to trade at Amoeba Records for 80s punk albums\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e. But here too she found herself on the \u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" id=\"package_description_1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eoutside, working to bridge her foundation in country blues and American roots guitar traditions with the punk scene she called home. She first made her name with this work, bringing a wickedly virtuosic touch on the fingerstyle guitar that sprang from her own self-discoveries on the instrument. But her restless spirit, a byproduct of growing up semi-nomadic with a single mother, led her to Venice Beach, California, where she’s been grinding the pavement for some years now, making a name for her prodigious guitar work and incisive songwriting, which touches on everything from police violence to alcoholism to love found and lost. Her new album, With the Sun, out February 2, 2018 on Hen House Studios, is the culmination of years of burning curiosity as an artist, the result of many wandered paths to find some new way to speak her heart. For the first time, she’s writing songs first and crafting the guitar work second, focusing on her own poetry and trying to tell her own story. She’s an outsider artist in the truest sense, living on the margins of the establishment and fueled only by her own creative genius.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"peekaboo-text\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eRecord label: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Hen House Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\"\u003eHen House Studios\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, produced by Harlan Steinberger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hen House Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452521345333,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1996\/7285\/products\/a2498792661_2.jpg?v=1676440850"},{"product_id":"sunny-war-particle-kid-particle-war-cd","title":"Sunny War, Particle Kid - Particle War CD","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Particle War album is a split LP that is the creation of Particle Kid (Micah Nelson) and Sunny War. Each artist recorded five original songs and one cover. Sunny and Micah are two artists that have the focus, talent and innovation to keep an audience captivated with every album they release ... and there is always one in the making.. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTo make the LP less of two individual artists side by side and more a collaborative project, Micah and Sunny play or sing on every song, be it bass, drums or backing vocals, many of the songs consisting of just Sunny and Micah playing all the instruments. However, there are some special guests, including John Densmore of The Doors, Jeff Smith of Insects vs Robots, Bob Rice (who also mastered the album), and engineer\/producer Harlan Steinberger himself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eRecord label: \u003ca title=\"Hen House Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.henhousestudios.com\"\u003eHen House Studios\u003c\/a\u003e, produced by Harlan Steinberger\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hen House Studios","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44452856660277,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1996\/7285\/products\/a0155022333_16.jpg?v=1676444435"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0724\/1996\/7285\/collections\/0023659231_10.jpg?v=1676587736","url":"https:\/\/hen-house-studios-2.myshopify.com\/collections\/sunny-war-music.oembed","provider":"Hen House Studios","version":"1.0","type":"link"}