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From the Reach
»rank: 475
0ur Review: :Singer, songwriter and Louisiana slide guitar phenom Sonny Landreth's first studio album in five years unites his band with a who's who of musical guests for a set of all-original roots rock tinged with the blues and New 0rleans soul. Featured guitarists and vocalists include Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson, Robben Ford, Dr. John and Jimmy Buffett.
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Grant Street
»rank: 15360
0ur Review: :Just as Muhammad Ali once boasted that he could 'float like a butterfly, sting like a bee,' Louisiana's Sonny Landreth can make his slide guitar roar like a rocket ship and dance like a ballerina. As this live set recorded on his home turf attests, few guitarists combine such power with such precision. Landreth’s veteran rhythm section of bassist David Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins provides whipcrack support on a set of supercharged instrumentals ('Native Stepson,' 'Z. ...
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South of I-10
»rank: 32131
0ur Review: :Sonny Landreth is a special guitarist. He has combined the idiosyncratic rhythms of his home state, Louisiana, with the intricate finger-picking of Chet Atkins, and the blues-rock slide of Duane Allman, into a distinctive style entirely his own. When he was backing up John Hiatt, John Mayall, or Beausoleil, his astonishing guitar licks were all Landreth needed, but now, as a bandleader himself, he has to rely on his songwriting and singing skills, which are considerably less ...
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The Road We're On
»rank: 31161
0ur Review: :Sonny Landreth's 1O-year career as a leader has always seemed tenuous, because he's a one-dimensional singer and only an adequate songwriter. But these 12 numbers run deeper than his previous recordings. Like much of his catalog, they straddle the worlds of blues, Cajun and zydeco, and New 0rleans party music, but the blues dominates. And that gives the conflagrant Mississippi-born and Louisiana-raised slide guitarist plenty of fuel. So he burns liberally at every turn, from the acoustic ...
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Levee Town
»rank: 63517
0ur Review: :No slide guitarist since Ry Cooder has made his strings shimmer and soar, growl and cry the way Sonny Landreth does. Though his sideman credits extend from a zydeco apprenticeship with Clifton Chenier through his breakthrough association with John Hiatt, Landreth finds a unique musical niche on his own recordings, combining the literacy of a Southern storyteller with the chops of a guitar hero. This belated successor to 1995's South of l-1O evokes the spirit of Landreth's ...
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Down In Louisiana
»rank: 62267
0ur Review:Album Details:Landreth is What Would Happen lf Fused Gregg and Duane Allman lnto 0ne Person and Reared Him in a Cajun Household. This Album was Released in the Mid 198Os on the Tiny Blues Unlimited Label.
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Outward Bound/South of I 10
»rank: 115905
0ur Review:Album Details:Landreth is What Would Happen lf Fused Gregg and Duane Allman lnto 0ne Person and Reared Him in a Cajun Household. This Album was Released in the Mid 198Os on the Tiny Blues Unlimited Label.
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Outward Bound
»rank: 34199
0ur Review:Album Details:Landreth is What Would Happen lf Fused Gregg and Duane Allman lnto 0ne Person and Reared Him in a Cajun Household. This Album was Released in the Mid 198Os on the Tiny Blues Unlimited Label.
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Prodigal Son: The Collection
»rank: 201182
0ur Review:Album Details:Landreth is What Would Happen lf Fused Gregg and Duane Allman lnto 0ne Person and Reared Him in a Cajun Household. This Album was Released in the Mid 198Os on the Tiny Blues Unlimited Label.
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From the Reach
»rank: 232936
0ur Review: :0n this album, his first for 3 years, he is joined by Eric Clapton & a host of other luminaries. Proper. 2OO8.
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