Sunny Cowgirls Essentials

Sunny Cowgirls Essentials

Country duo Sunny Cowgirls know how to celebrate Australian life. Sisters Sophie and Celeste Clabburn lace their anthems with Aussie slang and cultural touchstones, saluting the glory of a summer Christmas and the pitfalls of an outsized drinking culture. Growing up on a farm in Western Victoria before relocating to Perth, the siblings debuted with 2005’s distinctly down-home Little Bit Rusty. The following year’s breakthrough single “Cuttin’ Up B & S Style” cemented their inviting party spirit, though the singer-guitarists are still apt to echo traditional bush balladry on cuts like “Six Pack Short.” Some tracks cast their net wider for more universal appeal—see the broader romantic fantasy of “Cowboy”—but listen to the lyrics and you’d never mistake which land Sunny Cowgirls hail from. As they declare amidst loving references to footy and the Deni Ute Muster on the rock-powered “Rev It Up”: “It’s our culture/It’s what we do.”

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