Sunshine Brothers

CD review of "Live by the Sun" by the Santa Barbara Independent

There's something new under the sun...
Where the sea meets the sky, somewhere between Santa Barbara and the island of Jamaica, comes The Sunshine Brothers; a feels-good-as-a cool drink at sunset on a summer beach, reggae-influenced collaboration between producer/songwriter Christopher Tyng and singer/songwriter Owen Plant.
The Sunshine Brothers—an energetic, danceable mixture of reggae, surfer-pop, and world beat... music that evokes that certain intangible feeling of summertime euphoria, or “songs for drinking rum on a boat.”
The band, backed up by a full rhythm section and horns, had their debut album "Live by the Sun" released in Spring 2008 to great reviews, and have enjoyed steady sales on CD Baby and iTunes ever since. They are currently playing packed and sold-out shows based from their hometown of Santa Barbara, CA, and their beach-side sound is expanded by genre-bending influences such as The Police, Paul Simon, Bob Marley, Toots and the Maytals, Harry Belafonte, and David Gray. Music icon and friend David Crosby dug the band so much that he graciously laid down backing vocals for the track “Love Again.”
So hit play, crack open a Red Stripe, pull up a palm tree and chill out in the laid-back, care-free world of the Sunshine Brothers.
"... the soul of reggae, the uplift of Motown, the fun of pop, and the wisdom of folk. like old love songs on vacation, a bright and lazy morning, sipping coffee, writing letters to your sweetheart and your congressman, and then heading to the beach to surf. It (the album) sounds good. Like sunshine." -Cameron Hood of Ryanhood
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