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"When I wrote Summer Sun, I was going through some challenging times in life. I had just endured a long cold winter while living in Michigan. I needed to feel happiness, joy and sunshine. I wrote the song imagining that I was feeling the warmth of summer sun." - Mike Sumner

Single release date to radio: 09/05/2022
Single release date to consumers: 09/16/2022

Time: 2:53

Songwriters/PRO:
Mike Sumner / BMI

Publishers/PRO:
Unaffiliated

ISRC: USH9U0700006

"Winds of Winfield" happened at Winfield, KS. After winning the championship on Sunday morning, my father and I were driving back home and I grabbed the banjo while in the shotgun seat and started noodling. Winds of Winfield just happened at that point." - Mike Sumner

Time: 4:02

Single released: 05/23/2022

Songwriters/PRO:
Mike Sumner / BMI

Publishers/PRO:
Unaffiliated

ISRC: USH9U0700001

Mike Sumner has been playing banjo since he was six. Much of his banjo influence came from his father Joe Sumner. He also appreciates other influences like Mike Snider, Bela Fleck, Scott Vestal, Allison Brown, and Sammy Shelor. In 2001 he won Merlefest, Rockygrass and the Winfield National Banjo Championship. He repeated the National Banjo Championship win again in 2007. Mike plays a Stealth banjo and a Sumner Goldenbell model banjo. He started touring nationally in 2007 and has played with Randy Kohrs, Jim Lauderdale, Detour, Rebecca Frazier and Hit and Run, Rebekah Long, Billy Droze as well as Dale Ann Bradley.

Whether in the studio adding banjo to a project or on stage performing live, he strives to play clean, creative yet tasty banjo that enhances the overall sound.