Sonny Smith Shares Video For Burnin' Up Featuring Angel Olsen
Thursday, 04 January 2018
Written by Helen Payne
Photo: Alysse Gafjken
Sonny Smith, of Sonny and The Sunsets, has shared a video.
The visuals accompany Burnin' Up, a song featuring Angel Olsen, who also appears in the video.
Of the video, Smith said:
"I wrote the song after hearing Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car on the radio while on tour. Not that the song has anything to do with it. But that’s how that happened. If you listen closely there’s a similar little guitar type riff. Then asking Angel to duet , that was a no brainer cause I really like the way she sings, so that’s how that happened. The video was also kind of tied to the 80s in that after the song was all recorded I was watching Springsteen’s I’m On Fire video and felt a kind of kinship in a way, ‘burnin' up/I’m on fire’ and all that, and I liked his car scene. John Sayles did that. I have this white Cadillac I bought off this shifty guy from Vegas named Ronnie Bimbo, and I love this car, so I was thinkin' how to have a video with it, and having these two people leaving their homes to drive into the night, just felt real, So Ryan Browne really made that happen, cause we both love fake car scenes from movies, so that’s how that video happened."
Smith's solo album, 'Rod For Your Love', is due for release on March 2. Check out the video for Burnin' Up and the tracklist below.
'Rod For Your Love':
Pictures Of You
Lost
Adventures
Slaves
Live, Love And Be Free
Rod For Your Love
Burnin' Up
Refugees
More Bad Times
Bores Me To Tears
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