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34 Durango Magazine Summer/Fall
Singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Sunny Gable has played concerts in these parts for years. But making music got a whole lot more challenging when her youngest child was diagnosed with Down syndrome.
“It felt like a wrench thrown into my plans,” Gable admits. “The music life and being a mother are difficult anyway. What was I going to do?”
by Zach Hively
She’s still playing plenty around town, both solo and with the Whiskey Machine, as well as at folk festivals and other events. Audiences can find her concert schedule, and info on her next Whiskey Machine album, at www.sunnygable.com. And those audiences keep her going—whether they’re a thousand people in a theater or the one most important person in her living room. “Playing to a room that's listening to you—and getting to really tell the story—I find that to be the most rewarding thing, one hundred percent,” Gable says.
The answer came to her one sleepless night: In order to create, she had to get more creative. Gable started recording at home in whatever cracks of time she could claim for the effort, cutting vocals in the closet and recording mandolin and guitar in different rooms to capture the right essence of the sound. She played all the songs for her newborn one-man audience. The resulting solo debut release, Audience of One, leans on the lyrics to tell stories that deserve to be shared. Her music incorporates Americanastyle storytelling with hints of the blues that echo Gable’s childhood outside Chicago. She dubs this merging of musical styles “soul-grass,” and she’s shifted her emphasis toward playing for people who choose to listen to it. “The late-night bar scene is not my thing anymore,” Gable says. “The music I write isn’t made to be played in bars. It’s much more suited for an audience that’s going to absorb the music.” That means that Gable and her band, Sunny & the Whiskey Machine, are now emphasizing playing venues where the music is the main thing. Yet she’s found one place in town where she can blend the informality of a bar with the attentiveness of a willing audience. “Durango Craft Spirits is my exception to the rule,” she says. “I love that place. It’s always such a good experience playing music there, in a venue that is run by good people who are doing good for this community.”
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