Sunny Ozell at The Glee Online Stream

A classically trained vocalist, Sunny Ozell found her voice performing in New York City clubs in front of the most discerning of audiences. There she honed her sound with elements of jazz, blues, and American roots as part of the city’s tight-knit musical community. After over a decade of live shows around New York, Ozell has mastered the art of interpreting works by other songwriters, with the ability to dig deep to find the true meaning of a song, perhaps even discovering qualities in them the author never suspected.

With TAKE IT WITH ME, Ozell has set out to showcase her unique vocal talents across a spectrum of pieces by songwriters both legendary and little-known. Whether she’s singing Randy Newman’s lyrically charged “Louisiana 1927,” the rolling gospel of Pops Staples’s “Move Along Train,” the old-style country of Hank Williams’s “I Can’t Help It If I’m Still In Love With You,” or reinventing Howard Jones’s 1986 electropop chartbuster “No One Is To Blame,” Ozell finds a way to breathe her own luminous personality into the music. Ozell can also convince you the T Bone Burnett / Roy Orbison composition “Kill Zone”—a rarity tucked away on Burnett’s 2008 album Tooth Of Crime—and other songs such as Julian Velard’s “Family Tree,” and David Mead’s “Only In The Movies” have up to now, been criminally denied their richly-deserved place in the spotlight.