We hope you’ll join us on Wednesday, February 8th at 5:00 PM for a special album release celebration by Sunny War! Sunny War will be playing a short set in the record store in honor of the release of Anarchist Gospel, due out February 3rd via New West Records. Her performance will be followed by an album signing immediately thereafter. This will be our fist event featuring Nashville-based Sunny War and we’re very much looking forward to hosting her at Grimey’s! Our event is a free & all ages affair, so come one, come all, however to participate in the album signing with Sunny you’ll need a wristband, which is available for those who preorder Anarchist Gospel from Grimey’s. Visit our preorder site here or stop by the shop to preorder the album now.
Singer, songwriter and guitarist Sunny War (née Sydney Lyndella Ward) is a Nashville native. She had what's she's described as a nomadic childhood, moving around from Michigan, Colorado, and living on the streets of San Francisco. War settled down in Los Angeles as a teenager, and became known for her street playing in Venice Beach, where she was influenced by punk rock and rock & roll bands but has since returned to her Music City roots. “When I was a kid, I was obsessed with AC/DC, and I loved dramatic ‘80s guitar bands like Motley Crüe. Later, I was obsessed with Bad Brains, the Minutemen, and X.” True to the punk ethos, her first punk band, the Anus Kings, made music with whatever they had at hand, and what they had at hand were acoustic guitars. That made them stand out among other Los Angeles groups at the time, and today Sunny is the rare roots artist who covers Ween and can drop a Crass reference into a song (as she does on “Whole”). “I don’t really make music with a traditional roots audience in mind. I like weird music, outsider music, like Daniel Johnston and Roky Erickson.”
War is a fantastic guitar player. She learned her plucking style by playing "Blackbird" by The Beatles, and by falling in love with the blues. "I feel like I am a blues guitarist, but I don't think I'm a blues artist," she says. "I only use the scales and techniques that I know, and the only time I was trained in music was on blues guitar. I really love Elizabeth Cotten and Mississippi John Hurt," says War.
We’re beyond thrilled to have the chance to host Sunny War for a performance in the record store and to celebrate her new album alongside her friends, family and fans! We hope you’ll be able to join us for this special occasion.
