DATE:       FEBRUARY 24, 2020
 
FROM:      MARCEE RONDAN
 
 
   
 
SUNNY OZELL’S
‘OVERNIGHT LOWS’
DUE OUT FEBRUARY 28
 
VIDEO FOR “ALL THAT I AM” PREMIERED
 
SONG IS LATEST TRACK FROM TRANSATLANTIC AMERICANA
SINGER-SONGWRITER’S SECOND ALBUM
 
SHOWS SET IN NEW YORK FEBRUARY 28
AND LOS ANGELES TUESDAY, MARCH 10
TO CELEBRATE ALBUM’S RELEASE
 
With her second album due out this Friday (February 28), singer-songwriter SUNNY OZELL last week premiered the “All That I Am” video at AMERICAN SONGWRITER. The song is the new track from OVERNIGHT LOWS, an album that gleams with engaging melodies and intelligent wordplays, performed with a sophisticated fluency in pop, jazz, soul and Americana dialects.
 
To celebrate the album’s release, SUNNY has confirmed shows in New York and Los Angeles. First up is a NYC show the day (Saturday, February 29) after the album’s release at Rockwood Music Hall. A few weeks later, she’ll play a Tuesday, March 10 show at Hotel Cafe in Hollywood.
 
Describing the album title, OZELL says, “OVERNIGHT LOWS came to me more or less before I’d composed a single complete lyric, and I knew it was perfect. It encapsulated so many possibilities of what I’d hoped to say, and it steered the writing process that followed. The title was a kind of lighthouse, guiding the way.”
 
In her words, OVERNIGHT LOWS reflects the soul and simplicity of her passion for such inspirations as Bonnie Raitt, David Byrne, Cassandra Wilson, and Aretha Franklin. Players on the album include Jay Bellerose (Robert Plant, Aimee Mann, Alison Krauss), Tyler Chester (George Ezra, Maddison Cunningham), Andy Hess (The Black Crowes, David Byrne), Adam Levy (Norah Jones, Roseanne Cash), and Rich Hinman (Sara Bareilles). The album was recorded at Village Studios in Los Angeles, and engineered by Mike Piersante.
 
OVERNIGHT LOWS displays SUNNY‘s love of language and her intimate, soulful delivery, from the cruising feel of “Driving Highways” at one end–with its clever incorporation of a key line from Dobie Gray’s 1970s soulful singalong “Drift Away”–to the bluesy, smoochy “Take You Down” at the other. “Almost like self-analysis,” she adds, “I went back through it and thought ‘Holy shit, there’s a lot about night in here, and not sleeping, and wrestling with memories.”
 
As personal as these songs are, OZELL is perfectly happy for them to assume their own individual meaning to the listener. “I was really ready to be reflective, but I don’t necessarily need to have my agenda known,” she says. “I know from every song that’s ever moved me that when you love something at first glance, but it continues to yield up deeper levels of meaning as time goes on, that’s really art.”
 
OVERNIGHT LOWS is fueled by a lifetime relationship with music that started when SUNNY began violin lessons at the age of four and singing lessons at 11 years old. Stints in opera companies in her teens led to nights in a blues band in college, followed by jazz clubs in New York City. It was her time there, in New York, that honed and refined her unique voice and vision.
 
The OVERNIGHT LOWS tracklisting is as follows:
 
Driving Highways
Comes And It Goes
All That I Am
In The Sun
Not Afraid
Saint Ursula
The Garden
Hammer And Nail
Downstream
Take You Down