New track is from forthcoming record
When Sunny Sweeney’s trusted friend sent her a demo of “Married Alone” in April of 2019, she immediately, deeply connected with the song. The weaving, waltzing number is a classic country dagger to the heart made even more lonesome with the addition of guest vocalist Vince Gill.
“I was coming out of a sticky divorce, and all the feelings were still so raw,” she remembers. “I felt the words, not just heard them. My initial instinct was to have a male feature, and my mind immediately went to Vince. I then committed to him in my mind, and thought if he was unavailable, then I would just do it alone.”
The pair of voices singing the chorus — “There may be rings on our fingers, but we’re married alone” — reflect the beautiful misery captured in the song’s message, adding it to the list of all-time-great heartbreak songs.
“I am eternally grateful to [Vince] for lending his gorgeous voice to this, as I feel like it pushed it to another level,” she says.
“Married Alone” is the title track from Sweeney’s upcoming album, Married Alone. The album was produced by Paul Cauthen and The Texas Gentlemen’s Beau Bedford and is due September 23rd via Thirty Tigers.
You can hear Sweeney talk about the song and her album on the September 16th edition of The Music Universe Podcast.
In addition to the release of Married Alone, Sweeney recently launched off her own morning radio show — Sunny Side Up — on SiriusXM’s Willie’s Roadhouse, has a song featured in the upcoming film Vengeance, the directorial debut from writer and star BJ Novak of The Office, and is on the road.
