Sweeney ties the knot
Monday, November 14, 2011 – Sunny Sweeney tied the knot on Friday in Las Vegas, marrying long-time beau, Jeff Hellmer.
Sweeney and her new husband, a sergeant with the Austin Police Department and former Staff Sergeant in the US Air Force, got married at the iconic A Little White Chapel in Las Vegas surrounded by a small group of friends and family. The couple wrote their own vows, with Hellmer's vows being composed from lyrics to country songs.
Sweeney released her Republic Nashville album, "Concrete," earlier this year and toured this summer with Brad Paisley and Lady Antebellum. The sometimes honky tonker had a hit with Drink Myself Single.
More news for Sunny Sweeney
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- 01/26/17: Sweeney returns with new CD
- 05/10/13: Sweeney signs with Thirty Tigers
- 05/18/12: Sweeney plays Country Throwdown main stage
- 03/01/12: Sweeney is NRA Country
- 08/04/11: Sweeney gets "Concrete" with new music
- 06/05/09: New Nashville label starts with Sunny Sweeney aboard
- 11/16/06: Sunny Sweeney signs with Big Machine
CD reviews for Sunny Sweeney
When we last heard from Sunny Sweeney in 2011 with "Concrete," her major label debut on Big Machine showed a very different side of Sweeney, whose album 5 years earlier was appropriately titled "Heartbreakers Hall of Fame." Texas honky tonk and traditional country songs blanketed her debut, but the same could not be said for "Concrete," which was the kind of disc that those bemoaning slicked up country had reason to be right.
Sweeney is back and in excellent form on ...
If the name Sunny Sweeney seems vaguely familiar, there's good reason: the Texan and her sassy brand of country music have been bouncing around country music circles for years now, thanks to the collective buzz of her 2006 debut "Heartbreaker's Hall of Fame" and a four-song EP released earlier this year.
But while the singer has floated around the Texas club circuit and flirted with radio airplay, she didn't enter the mainstream vernacular until single From a Table Away ...
In the past, Sunny Sweeney has professed herself to be a lover of "old school country." Her debut release was shot through with that sensibility; based on this EP preview of her upcoming full-length, that is no longer the case, for good or ill. But then, to expect anything else would be naive. Sweeney is now on a major label, where success is measured in chart position and units moved; the fact that not one of the three singles from her first record, "Heartbreakers Hall of ...
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