Walking Contradiction

Sunny War is a thirty four year old singer/ songwriter from Nashville, Tennessee who plays folk- punk blues. She learned finger picking guitar from watching a friend's father play the banjo. As a black teenager in the American South she had her life turned upside down when she discovered Crass- the band made her rethink her life and actions, resulting in her running away from home and living for a while on the streets in Venice Beach, California with little but her sleeping bag and guitar. She busked for a living and went viral via a YouTube titled 'Amazing Venice Beach Homeless Girl on Guitar'. At that point she'd also picked up a heroin and crystal meth habit. 

After cleaning up Sunny began self releasing albums and in 2023 released Anarchist Gospel. She's punk as fuck and sees herself in the tradition of the political folk music past of American music- Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, union songs- just as much as in the punk bands of the 70s, 80s and beyond- Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Crass. Her latest album, Armageddon In A Summer Dress came out last month preceded by this superb song, Walking Contradiction, on which she shares vocals with Steve Ignorant, formerly of Crass. 

Walking Contradiction is a powerful song, a loud, roiling punk blues about politics, society, government, social constructions, work, capitalism, war... everything you might expect Steve Ignorant to be in sync with. The album is packed with bluesy, folky, punky songs, thoughtful and political, dark in places but shot with some light and much soulfulness too. On Gone Again she shares vocals with John Doe of LA punks X, a band who fused California punk with country and rockabilly. Their second album, Wild Gift, includes this song, a 1981 gem...

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