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{{Infobox album <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Albums -->
{{Infobox album
| Name = Provoked
| name = Provoked
| Type = studio
| type = studio
| Artist = [[Sunny Sweeney]]
| artist = [[Sunny Sweeney]]
| Cover = ProvokedSunnySweeney.jpg
| cover = ProvokedSunnySweeney.jpg
| Alt =
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| Released = {{Start date|2014|08|05}}
| released = {{Start date|2014|08|05}}
| Recorded = 2013-2014
| recorded = 2013–2014
| Genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| venue =
| Length =
| studio =
| Label = Thirty Tigers
| genre = [[Country music|Country]]
| Producer = Luke Wooten
| length =
| label = Thirty Tigers/Aunt Daddy
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| Last album = ''[[Concrete (Sunny Sweeney album)|Concrete]]''<br>(2011)
| producer = Luke Wooten
| This album = '''''Provoked'''''<br>(2014)
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| prev_title = [[Concrete (Sunny Sweeney album)|Concrete]]
| Next album =
| Misc =
| prev_year = 2011
| next_title = [[Trophy (Sunny Sweeney album)|Trophy]]
{{Singles
| Name = Provoked
| next_year = 2017
| Type = studio
| misc = {{Singles
| Single 1 = Bad Girl Phase
| name = Provoked
| Single 1 date = June 16, 2014
| type = studio
| single1 = Bad Girl Phase
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}}}}
| single1date = June 16, 2014
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'''''Provoked''''' is the third studio album by American [[country music]] singer [[Sunny Sweeney]]. It was released on August 5, 2014 via Thirty Tigers. The album includes the single "Bad Girl Phase."
| single2 = My Bed
| single2date = February 2015
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}}
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'''''Provoked''''' is the third studio album by American [[country music]] singer [[Sunny Sweeney]]. It was released on August 5, 2014, via Thirty Tigers/Aunt Daddy Records. The album includes the singles "Bad Girl Phase" and "My Bed," which were Number One hits on the Texas Music Charts.<ref name="theboot"/><ref name="countrymusicrocks"/>


==Content==
==Content==
After parting ways with [[Republic Nashville]] in 2012, Sweeney signed a recording contract with the Thirty Tigers record label, and released ''Provoked'', her first album under the imprint, on August 5, 2014. The set was produced by Luke Wooten and Sweeney co-wrote 11 of the album's 13 songs.<ref name="allmusic"> "Bad Girl Phase" was released in June 2014 as the lead-off single. Although the single failed to reach the ''Billboard'' charts, it was a Number One hit on the Texas Music Chart for the chart week of October 20, 2014. In doing so, Sweeney became the first female to top the chart in over ten years.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theboot.com/sunny-sweeney-bad-girl-phase/|title=Sunny Sweeney Tops Texas Charts|author=Gayle Thompson|date=October 22, 2014|work=|publisher=The Boot|accessdate=December 25 2014}}</ref>
After parting ways with [[Republic Nashville]] in 2012, Sweeney signed a recording contract with the Thirty Tigers record label, and released ''Provoked'', her first album under the imprint, on August 5, 2014. The set was produced by Luke Wooten and Sweeney co-wrote 11 of the album's 13 songs,<ref name="allmusic"/> many of which were inspired by her personal life, which included a divorce from her first husband.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/how-sunny-sweeney-got-so-provoked-inside-her-badass-new-album-20140806|title=How Sunny Sweeney Got So 'Provoked': Inside Her Badass New Album|author=Stephen L. Betts|date=August 6, 2014|publisher=Rolling Stone|accessdate=December 25, 2014}}</ref>
"Bad Girl Phase" was released in June 2014 as the lead-off single. Although the single failed to reach the ''Billboard'' charts, it was a Number One hit on the Texas Music Chart for the chart week of October 20, 2014. In doing so, Sweeney became the first female to top the chart in over ten years.<ref name="theboot">{{cite web|url=http://theboot.com/sunny-sweeney-bad-girl-phase/|title=Sunny Sweeney Tops Texas Charts|author=Gayle Thompson|date=October 22, 2014|publisher=The Boot|accessdate=December 25, 2014}}</ref>

"[[Can't Let Go (Randy Weeks song)|Can't Let Go]]" was previously recorded by [[Lucinda Williams]] and [[Heidi Newfield]], and the album also includes a duet with [[Will Hoge]] on "My Bed," which was released as the album's second single in early 2015. "My Bed" became a Number One hit on the Texas Music Chart in June 2015, making Sweeney the first female in the history of the chart to score back-to-back Number One hits.<ref name="countrymusicrocks">{{Cite web|url=http://www.countrymusicrocks.net/2015/06/sunny-sweeney-makes-history-on-the-texas-charts.html#more-39413|title = Sunny Sweeney Makes History on the Texas Charts &#124; Country Music Rocks|date = 24 June 2015}}</ref>


==Reception==
==Reception==

===Commercial===
===Commercial===
The album debuted at number 165 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and number 20 on the ''Billboard'' [[Top Country Albums]] chart upon its release. It had sold 2,900 copies after two weeks.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/country-album-sales-report-august-20-2014/ |title=Country Album Sales Report – August 20, 2014 |author= Matt Bjorke |date= August 20, 2014 |work=Roughstock }}</ref>
The album debuted at number 165 on the U.S. [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]] and number 20 on the ''Billboard'' [[Top Country Albums]] chart upon its release. It had sold 2,900 copies after two weeks.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/country-album-sales-report-august-20-2014/ |title=Country Album Sales Report – August 20, 2014 |author=Matt Bjorke |date=August 20, 2014 |work=Roughstock |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821103412/http://roughstock.com/news/country-album-sales-report-august-20-2014/ |archivedate=August 21, 2014 }}</ref>


===Critical===
===Critical===
Thom Jurek of [[allmusic]] gave the album four stars out of five, praising the record as Sweeney's most consistent and diverse: "It's a provocative album, detailing a difficult journey through disappointment, doubt, darkness, and ultimately triumph. It's chock-full of vulnerability, accountability, an acidic wit and strength."<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/provoked-mw0002668063|title=Provoked - Sunny Sweeney|last=Jurek|first=Thom|date=|work=allmusic|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref>
Thom Jurek of [[allmusic]] gave the album four stars out of five, praising the record as Sweeney's most consistent and diverse: "It's a provocative album, detailing a difficult journey through disappointment, doubt, darkness, and ultimately triumph. It's chock-full of vulnerability, accountability, an acidic wit and strength."<ref name="allmusic">{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/provoked-mw0002668063|title=Provoked - Sunny Sweeney|last=Jurek|first=Thom|date=|work=allmusic|accessdate=24 December 2014}}</ref> Writing for [[Cuepoint]], the Dean of American rock critics [[Robert Christgau]] gave the record an A−. His write-up claimed that Sweeney gave "bros the finger" and that "the former Republic Nashville wannabe" turned "her whole album into what Clark or Jessie Jo Dillon or maybe it was Shannon Wright thought to call 'a bad girl phase.'" Christgau went on to call Sweeney "marketable" and praised her co-writers.<ref name="Cuepoint">{{cite web|url=https://medium.com/cuepoint/robert-christgau-expert-witness-2fd46b125ca0|title=Provoked - Sunny Sweeney|last=Christgau|first=Robert|date=|work=Cuepoint|accessdate=4 June 2015}}</ref>


==Track listing==
==Track listing==
{{Track listing
{{Track listing
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| total_length =

| writing_credits = yes


| title1 = You Don't Know Your Husband
| title1 = You Don't Know Your Husband
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| title4 = Carolina on the Line
| title4 = Carolina on the Line
| writer4 = [[Lance Miller]], Sweeney, [[The Warren Brothers|Brad Warren, Brett Warren]]
| writer4 = Lance Miller, Sweeney, [[The Warren Brothers|Brad Warren, Brett Warren]]
| length4 = 4:05
| length4 = 4:05


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| length5 = 4:15
| length5 = 4:15


| title6 = Can't Let Go
| title6 = [[Can't Let Go (Randy Weeks song)|Can't Let Go]]
| writer6 = Randy Weeks
| writer6 = Randy Weeks
| length6 = 3:02
| length6 = 3:02
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| length10 = 4:17
| length10 = 4:17


| title 11 = Used Cars
| title11 = Used Cars
| writer11 = Hemby, Sweeney
| writer11 = Hemby, Sweeney
| length11 = 3:58
| length11 = 3:58
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| length13 = 3:00
| length13 = 3:00
}}
}}

==Personnel==
{{div col}}
* Isabelle Adams &ndash; children's choir
* Molly Bacurin &ndash; children's choir
* Jake Clayton &ndash; [[banjo]], [[dobro]], [[cello]], [[fiddle]]
* [[Elizabeth Cook]] &ndash; children's choir
* [[J.T. Corenflos]] &ndash; [[electric guitar]]
* [[Gibb Droll]] &ndash; electric guitar
* [[Fred Eltringham]] &ndash; [[drums]], [[percussion]]
* Michael Hellmer &ndash; children's choir
* [[Will Hoge]] &ndash; duet vocals on "My Bed"
* [[Joanna Janét]] &ndash; background vocals
* Mike Johnson &ndash; [[lap steel guitar]], [[pedal steel guitar]]
* Gayle Mayes &ndash; background vocals
* Gwen Merrill &ndash; children's choir
* Alison Prestwood &ndash; [[bass guitar]]
* Angela Primm &ndash; background vocals
* Mike Rojas &ndash; [[accordion]], [[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]], [[organ (music)|organ]]
* Steve Sheehan &ndash; [[acoustic guitar]]
* Hannah Smith &ndash; children's choir
* [[Bryan Sutton]] &ndash; acoustic guitar
* Sunny Sweeney &ndash; lead vocals
* Russell Terrell &ndash; background vocals
* Emma Wooten &ndash; children's choir
* Luke Wooten &ndash; electric guitar, [[kazoo]], background vocals
{{div col end}}


==Chart performance==
==Chart performance==
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| US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="Billboard">{{cite web|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/280975/sunny-sweeney/chart?f=320|title=Chart listing for ''Provoked''|work=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]]|accessdate=December 24, 2014}}</ref>
| US [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]]<ref name="Billboard">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/280975/sunny-sweeney/chart?f=320|title=Chart listing for ''Provoked''|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|publisher=[[Prometheus Global Media]]|accessdate=December 24, 2014}}</ref>
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| align="center"| 165
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[[Category:2014 albums]]
[[Category:2014 albums]]

Latest revision as of 09:27, 7 June 2024

Provoked
Studio album by
Sunny Sweeney
ReleasedAugust 5, 2014 (2014-08-05)
Recorded2013–2014
GenreCountry
LabelThirty Tigers/Aunt Daddy
ProducerLuke Wooten
Sunny Sweeney chronology
Concrete
(2011) 		Provoked
(2014) 		Trophy
(2017)
Singles from Provoked
  1. "Bad Girl Phase"
    Released: June 16, 2014
  2. "My Bed"
    Released: February 2015

Provoked is the third studio album by American country music singer Sunny Sweeney. It was released on August 5, 2014, via Thirty Tigers/Aunt Daddy Records. The album includes the singles "Bad Girl Phase" and "My Bed," which were Number One hits on the Texas Music Charts.[1][2]

Content

[edit]

After parting ways with Republic Nashville in 2012, Sweeney signed a recording contract with the Thirty Tigers record label, and released Provoked, her first album under the imprint, on August 5, 2014. The set was produced by Luke Wooten and Sweeney co-wrote 11 of the album's 13 songs,[3] many of which were inspired by her personal life, which included a divorce from her first husband.[4]

"Bad Girl Phase" was released in June 2014 as the lead-off single. Although the single failed to reach the Billboard charts, it was a Number One hit on the Texas Music Chart for the chart week of October 20, 2014. In doing so, Sweeney became the first female to top the chart in over ten years.[1]

"Can't Let Go" was previously recorded by Lucinda Williams and Heidi Newfield, and the album also includes a duet with Will Hoge on "My Bed," which was released as the album's second single in early 2015. "My Bed" became a Number One hit on the Texas Music Chart in June 2015, making Sweeney the first female in the history of the chart to score back-to-back Number One hits.[2]

Reception

[edit]

Commercial

[edit]

The album debuted at number 165 on the U.S. Billboard 200 and number 20 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart upon its release. It had sold 2,900 copies after two weeks.[5]

Critical

[edit]

Thom Jurek of allmusic gave the album four stars out of five, praising the record as Sweeney's most consistent and diverse: "It's a provocative album, detailing a difficult journey through disappointment, doubt, darkness, and ultimately triumph. It's chock-full of vulnerability, accountability, an acidic wit and strength."[3] Writing for Cuepoint, the Dean of American rock critics Robert Christgau gave the record an A−. His write-up claimed that Sweeney gave "bros the finger" and that "the former Republic Nashville wannabe" turned "her whole album into what Clark or Jessie Jo Dillon or maybe it was Shannon Wright thought to call 'a bad girl phase.'" Christgau went on to call Sweeney "marketable" and praised her co-writers.[6]

Track listing

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No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."You Don't Know Your Husband"Angaleena Presley, Mark D. Sanders, Sunny Sweeney3:03
2."Bad Girl Phase"Brandy Clark, Jessie Jo Dillon, Shannon Wright3:22
3."Second Guessing"Natalie Hemby, Sweeney4:30
4."Carolina on the Line"Lance Miller, Sweeney, Brad Warren, Brett Warren4:05
5."Find Me"Jay Clementi, Buddy Owens, Sweeney4:15
6."Can't Let Go"Randy Weeks3:02
7."Front Row Seats"Miller, Sweeney, Brad Warren, Brett Warren3:32
8."My Bed" (featuring Will Hoge)Ashley Monroe, Presley, Sweeney3:24
9."Uninvited"Hemby, Sweeney3:42
10."Sunday Dress"Monty Holmes, Owens, Sweeney4:17
11."Used Cars"Hemby, Sweeney3:58
12."Backhanded Compliment"Hemby, Sweeney3:33
13."Everybody Else Can Kiss My Ass"Brett Beavers, Connie Harrington, Sweeney3:00

Personnel

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Chart performance

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Chart (2014) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[7] 165
US Billboard Top Country Albums[7] 20
US Billboard Independent Albums[7] 25

References

[edit]
  1. ^ a b Gayle Thompson (October 22, 2014). "Sunny Sweeney Tops Texas Charts". The Boot. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  2. ^ a b "Sunny Sweeney Makes History on the Texas Charts | Country Music Rocks". 24 June 2015.
  3. ^ a b Jurek, Thom. "Provoked - Sunny Sweeney". allmusic. Retrieved 24 December 2014.
  4. ^ Stephen L. Betts (August 6, 2014). "How Sunny Sweeney Got So 'Provoked': Inside Her Badass New Album". Rolling Stone. Retrieved December 25, 2014.
  5. ^ Matt Bjorke (August 20, 2014). "Country Album Sales Report – August 20, 2014". Roughstock. Archived from the original on August 21, 2014.
  6. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Provoked - Sunny Sweeney". Cuepoint. Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  7. ^ a b c "Chart listing for Provoked". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved December 24, 2014.
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