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The Sunny Cowgirls
12+ albums
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It is one of the most intriguing career trajectories in Australian country music – one more likely to have come from a film script than the harsh reality faced every day by those seeking to break through into a highly competitive business. “We’ve come a long way, so fast, that sometimes we can’t quite believe it,” marvels Sophie Clabburn, the elder half of The Sunny Cowgirls, whose infectious musical energy has garnered sales and popularity that has thrust them into a slender elite. “It’s always been a dream of ours to do this but we just didn’t think it would happen the way it has.” The almost cinematic aspect of the rise is now oft-cited; how the plucky sisters who had worked as Jillaroos, fruit pickers, roustabouts, cattle ranch hands and even enrolled in a wool classing course, while playing country music at agricultural shows, rodeos, anywhere that would have them, landed themselves in the CMAA College of Country Music in Tamworth and at seminar on marketing and networking conducted by singer Adam Brand early in 2005. How they listened intently, took him at his word and handed over a copy of their independent album of covers and originals, Little Bit Rusty .As Sophie recalls: “I walked up to him and gave him a copy – He looked at it and he was like, oh yeah. He goes ‘I’m going to play it in my ute when I leave here’ and we were like, ‘yeah, right, he’s not going to listen to it’.” He listened, Compass Brothers Records head Graham Thompson listened and, within what seem
