Sunday Valley | Nashville, TN | Americana / Neotraditional Country / Roots Music | Music, Lyrics, Songs, and Videos

“I really don’t know what to say here, except that Sunday Valley was the best live band I discovered in 2011, and very possibly might be the best live band right now in all of country music. I know that may come across as a platitude, but I believe it, and to try and use words to describe their live experience almost seems insulting; you just have to experience it yourself. Sturgill Simpson is country’s version of Jimmy Hendrix or Stevie Ray Vaughan. Mark my words, 2012 might be the year of Sunday Valley. ”

— The Triggerman, savingcountrymusic.com

“BEST NEW OUTLAW BAND: SUNDAY VALLEY "On this year's amazing debut full-length To the Wind and on to Heaven, Sunday Valley frontman John Sturgill Simpson makes like a freight-train-speed Southern rocker with roots in the Appalachian moan of Sturgill's distant relative, Dock Boggs, and the proto-country of Charlie Poole. The Kentucky trio recently relocated to Nashville, where they've perfected a super-boogie style suggestive of The MC5 with a Bluegrass State-size case of the blues." ”

— Edd Hurt, The Nashville Scene- 2011 "Best of Nashville" Edition

"Sunday Valley epitomizes the ornery heart and soul of their state in the same-but-diff'rent way that Bill Monroe and Merle Travis embodied the sound of their own Kentucky-fried generation. There's a thick, dark-fired smoke in their music that comes straight outta the holler. I'm proud to call them my home-boys."

— Col. JD Wilkes, The Legendary Shack Shakers

“I am here to tell you folks, Sunday Valley’s frontman Sturgill Simpson is a singular talent, one of those one-in-a-million folks who is touched by the country music holy spirit, and has the vigor to fully realize his potential, and assert his solely original perspective on American music without fear. The man is a top shelf guitar player, with an original, Kentucky-bred style all his own, playing guitar like it’s a mandolin to create an energetic and active base for the music. But then at the right moments, he opens wide and bursts out with a rock & roll abandon, yet still somehow keeps it grounded with a Kentucky bluegrass flavor. The tone might intimidate some in the recorded format, but live, it is absolutely spellbinding. Whatever praise, whatever accolades, whatever sway my good name has, I throw it all behind Sunday Valley and Sturgill Simpson 100%. This man deserves to be playing music for a living, and as long as that is not the case, it is a sin of our country.”

— The Triggerman, savingcountrymusic.com

“For the past decade or so Music City has fumbled like a mad scientist to piece together sure-fire radio hits from the worst parts of rock and country music , though there have been major financial success, the lifespan of the work is questionable...The musical limbs seem to reject each other. These hacks should take a page from South-Eastern Kentucky’s Sunday Valley. This is music that is as good-hearted as it is raucous, full of piss and vinegar as well as good will, and and as ready to love as itchin’ to fight.”

— Baron Lane, Twang Nation

“First and foremost Sunday Valley is a live band, and that is how they approached this recording. The guitar is unapologetically loud and heavy,..kind of the Stevie Ray approach of simply not worrying about what people say, just continue to do it until that is what you’re known for. It’s not easy to capture the live energy a live band is known for in a recording, but To The Wind And On To Heaven does. I really wouldn’t characterize this project as “produced” or “slick” or “polished.” It is simply honest and fearless. Sunday Valley may feel like chaos, but they move forward with a cohesiveness and confident ease, and that contrast adds to the band’s mistique. Sunday Valley is definitely worth your consideration and raising a blip on your radar because mark my words, I have a feeling that this will not be the last time you will hear about this band, from me or someone else.”

— The Triggerman, SavingCountryMusic.com

“This three piece group attacks all ten songs on their first full length recording with a fervor and ferocity that is sure to leave audiences shaking throughout the bluegrass.”

— A Fifty Cent Lighter & A WHiskey Buzz

“Sunday Valley sounds like the Kentucky I know - tough, resilient, defiant, and pretty close to perfect. Play their new CD loud & let it sink into your bones. This is music from God's country.”

— Stacy Yelton, WUKY 91.3 Lexington, KY

"It would be a crime (and pure laziness) to lump Sunday Valley in with every other country band you've heard in recent years. It's true, they are amazing live and until now, that's where they shined the brightest. But somehow, they've managed to harness that magic they bring to a live stage, and put every ounce of it into "To the Wind and On to Heaven." This album is equal parts rock n' roll, twang, and pure soul. It makes me damn proud to be a Kentucky girl."

— Jonese Franklin 88.9 WEKU Richmond, Lexington KY

“You can't help but get swept up into the cow-slinging swing of things when the guitar-trio rumble of All the Pretty Colors kicks off To the Wind and On to Heaven, the long-awaited new album by Sunday Valley. It all comes together with Duane Lundy's ultra-complimentary production. ”

— Walter Tunis, Leington Herald Leader

“Hard to believe that this amount of southern fried bombast can come out of a three piece band. Inspired, driving rock and roll filtered through the the darkest lyrical yarn spinning since Faulkner put a bottle to his lips and a pen to paper. In a word: jawdropping. ”

— Mike Sullivan WRFL 88.1 Fm Lexington Kentucky

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