Sonny Landreth

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Congo Square 10:37 Tools
Native Stepson 03:37 Tools
All About You 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted Road 04:42 Tools
Taylor's Rock 04:00 Tools
You're Why I'm So Lonely 02:59 Tools
Rise Shining 00:00 Tools
Port of Calling 00:00 Tools
That's the Way It's Gonna be 00:00 Tools
Blues Attack 00:00 Tools
Gone Pecan 00:00 Tools
Sunrise 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues 04:40 Tools
Creole Angel 00:00 Tools
Hell At Home 05:13 Tools
M'Sippi Blues 00:00 Tools
Soldier Of Fortune 00:00 Tools
Speak Of The Devil 00:00 Tools
Country Blues 00:00 Tools
Z. Rider 00:00 Tools
A World Away 00:00 Tools
The Road We'Re On 00:00 Tools
True Blue 00:00 Tools
I Know You Rider 00:00 Tools
U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile 00:00 Tools
Bound By The Blues 00:00 Tools
Wind In Denver 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long 00:00 Tools
Back To Bayou Teche 03:49 Tools
Walkin' Blues 00:00 Tools
The Promise Land 03:22 Tools
Prodigal Son 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home 00:00 Tools
Juke Box Mama 00:00 Tools
She Left Me a Mule 00:00 Tools
Natural World 00:00 Tools
Fallin' For You 00:00 Tools
Gemini Blues 00:00 Tools
Überesso 02:44 Tools
When I Still Had You 00:00 Tools
Lazy Boy 00:00 Tools
Pedal To Metal 00:00 Tools
Gaia Tribe 05:10 Tools
Forever Lillie mae 00:00 Tools
The Only One 07:15 Tools
South Of I-10 00:00 Tools
Lady Come Lately 00:00 Tools
Congo Square (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (feat. Mark Knopfler) 00:00 Tools
Don't Cry for Me 00:00 Tools
Lazy Boy (Reprise) 00:00 Tools
Storm Of Worry 00:00 Tools
Shooting For The Moon 00:00 Tools
For You And Forever 00:00 Tools
Ol' Lady Luck 00:00 Tools
The High Side 00:00 Tools
New Landlord 00:00 Tools
Good Enough for Me 00:00 Tools
Heavy Heart Rising 00:00 Tools
Think It Over (Lazy Boy) 00:00 Tools
Yokamoma 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon 00:00 Tools
Shootin' For the Moon 00:00 Tools
Cajun Waltz 00:00 Tools
This River 00:00 Tools
Orphans Of The Motherland 00:00 Tools
Turning Wheel 00:00 Tools
Wonderide 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On 00:00 Tools
Baby Ain't That Love 00:00 Tools
Lookin' for a Good Time 00:00 Tools
C'est Chaud 00:00 Tools
Sacred Ground 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel 00:00 Tools
Ain't Gonna Worry 00:00 Tools
Mojo Boogie 00:00 Tools
Passionola 05:22 Tools
Great Gulf Wind 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly 00:00 Tools
The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile 00:00 Tools
Letting Go 00:00 Tools
When You're Away 00:00 Tools
Elemental Journey 00:00 Tools
Where They Will 00:00 Tools
Levee Town 00:00 Tools
Brave New Girl 00:00 Tools
Soul Salvation - Live 00:00 Tools
Deep South 00:00 Tools
Key To the Highway 00:00 Tools
Bad Weather 04:28 Tools
Universe 03:37 Tools
It Hurts Me Too 00:00 Tools
Forgotten Story 00:00 Tools
Reckless Beauty 00:00 Tools
Planet Cannonball 00:00 Tools
Outward Bound 00:00 Tools
Spider-Gris 00:00 Tools
Opening Sky 00:00 Tools
Firebird Blues 03:43 Tools
Godchild 00:00 Tools
Angeline 00:00 Tools
Turning With The Century 00:00 Tools
Simcoe Street 00:00 Tools
Dust My Broom 00:00 Tools
Cherry Ball Blues 00:00 Tools
Love And Glory 00:00 Tools
Soul Salvation 00:00 Tools
Common Law-Love 00:00 Tools
Blues Attack - Live 00:00 Tools
Howlin` Moon 00:00 Tools
Zydeco Shuffle 03:04 Tools
M'ssippi Blues 00:00 Tools
Great Gulf Wind (Slight Return) 00:00 Tools
Pine Grove Blues 00:00 Tools
Baby Please Don't Go 02:42 Tools
Frisco Bay 00:00 Tools
Sugar Cane 00:00 Tools
I Had A Dream 00:00 Tools
Ay Ai Ai 00:00 Tools
Lady Come Laterly 00:00 Tools
Cherry Ball Blues 04:10 Tools
Next of Kindred Spirit 04:22 Tools
If I Ever Get Lucky 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You (feat. Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
One Life 00:00 Tools
Without My Baby 00:00 Tools
Little Linda 00:00 Tools
The Center 00:00 Tools
Black, White & Blue 00:00 Tools
Checking Up On My Baby 02:45 Tools
Native Stepson (live) 00:00 Tools
Great Gulf Wind Reprise 00:00 Tools
At Some Time 00:00 Tools
Names 00:00 Tools
I'm Ready 00:00 Tools
Everybody's Breakin' Everybody's Heart 00:00 Tools
The Parish Line 03:15 Tools
M’Sippi Blues 00:00 Tools
Storm of Worry (feat. Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
Hell At Home - Live 00:00 Tools
Don’t Cry For Me 00:00 Tools
Road A Plenty 02:37 Tools
Old Flame 04:04 Tools
Promised Land 00:00 Tools
Think It Over 00:00 Tools
Got To Get You Under My Tree (feat. The DixieCups) 00:00 Tools
Shootin` For The Moon 03:33 Tools
That’s The Way It’s Gonna Be 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home - Live 00:00 Tools
Levee Town (feat. John Hiatt) 00:00 Tools
Where Are You Going 00:00 Tools
Lookin’ For A Good Time 00:00 Tools
Louisiana 1927 04:02 Tools
Key To The Highway - Live 00:00 Tools
Baby Ain’t That Love 00:00 Tools
Back to Bayou Têche 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On (feat. Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long (feat. Robben Ford) 05:09 Tools
Ain’t Gonna Worry 00:00 Tools
You’re Why I’m So Lonely 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well 00:00 Tools
Blues Attack (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (feat. Eric Johnson) 00:00 Tools
The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile - Live 00:00 Tools
Creole Angel - Live 00:00 Tools
Slide Guitar Blues 00:00 Tools
True Blue (Live) 00:00 Tools
Love And Glory (feat. Jennifer Warnes) 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted Road (live) 00:00 Tools
Hell At Home (with Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (feat. Robben Ford & Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
A World Away - Live 04:44 Tools
For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings) 00:00 Tools
Soul Salvation (feat. Bonnie Raitt) 00:00 Tools
Universe (feat. Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
The High Side - Live 00:00 Tools
True Blue - Live 00:00 Tools
Congo Square - Live 00:00 Tools
Bound By The Blues - Live 00:00 Tools
[Untitled Track] 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (feat. Nadirah Shakoor) 00:00 Tools
Got To Get You Under My Tree 00:00 Tools
Back To Bayou Teche - Live 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (feat. Dr. John & Jimmy Buffett) 00:00 Tools
Son of Native Stepson 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (Live) 00:00 Tools
Brave New Girl - Live 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (feat. Dr. John & Jimmy Buffet) 00:00 Tools
The One And Only Truth - Live 00:00 Tools
Überesso - Live 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues-(w Mark Knopfler) 04:38 Tools
Walkin' Blues - Live 04:49 Tools
Pedal To The Metal (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (With Eric 00:00 Tools
Port Of Calling (Live) 00:00 Tools
J.B. Lenoir / Mojo Boogie 00:00 Tools
Hell at Home (live) 00:00 Tools
Pedal To The Metal - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home - Sonny Landreth feat. Eric Johnson 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On (with Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon - Sonny Landreth feat. Dr. John & Jimmy Buffet 00:00 Tools
Pedal To Metal (Live) 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You-(w Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
Universe (with Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long-(w Robben Ford) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home-(w Eric Johnson) 00:00 Tools
Hell At Home (with Eric Clapton) [Live] [2016 Remastered] 00:00 Tools
Old Flame (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Old Flame - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
A World Away (Live) 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Key To The Highway (Live) 00:00 Tools
Gravy Train 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (With Mark Kno 00:00 Tools
Back to Bayou Teche (Live) 00:00 Tools
Road A Plenty (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (Featuring Eric Johnson) 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On-(w Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Storm of Worry-(w Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (Featuring Mark Knopfler) 05:42 Tools
Howlin' Moon-(w Dr. John & Jimmy Buffett) 00:00 Tools
Road A Plenty - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
The One And Only Truth 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel-(w Robben Ford & Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Port 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues - Sonny Landreth feat. Mark Knopfler 00:00 Tools
For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings) (feat. Jennifer Warnes) - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Fare You Well - Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
Creole Angel (Live) 00:00 Tools
Storm Of Worry (With Eric Clap 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long (With Robben For 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (With Dr. John/ji 00:00 Tools
Universe-(w Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings) (feat. Jennifer Warnes) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Levee Town - Feat. John Hiatt 00:00 Tools
Lazy Boy - Reprise 00:00 Tools
The High Side (Live) 00:00 Tools
Bound By The Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
Promise Land 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You (With Eri 00:00 Tools
Storm Of Worry (Featuring Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You (with Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
Blues Attack (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (with Eric Johnson) 00:00 Tools
Storm of Worry - Sonny Landreth feat. Eric Clapton 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long (Featuring Robben Ford) 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (With Mark Knopfler) 00:00 Tools
Storm Of Worry (with Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You (Featuring Eric Clapton) 04:42 Tools
Stepson 00:00 Tools
Soul Salvation (Live) 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long (with Robben Ford) 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You - Sonny Landreth feat. Eric Clapton 00:00 Tools
The One And Only Truth (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On - Sonny Landreth feat. Vince Gill 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long - Sonny Landreth feat. Robben Ford 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (Featuring Dr. John, Jimmy Buffett, Steve Conn) 00:00 Tools
Z Rider (Live) 00:00 Tools
Walkin' Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (With Robben Ford/v 00:00 Tools
Milky Way 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (With Nadirah Shako 00:00 Tools
When I Still Have You 00:00 Tools
Denver 00:00 Tools
C'est chaud - Sonny Landreth 00:00 Tools
Brave New Girl (Live) 00:00 Tools
Like Nowhere Else 00:00 Tools
Taylor's Rock - Sonny Landreth 00:00 Tools
All About You (Live) 00:00 Tools
[Untitled] 00:00 Tools
Bayou Tech 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly - Sonny Landreth feat. Nadirah Shakoor 00:00 Tools
You Must Keep On 00:00 Tools
01-Blue Tarp Blues 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel - Sonny Landreth feat. Robben Ford & Vince Gill 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (Featuring Nadirah Shakoor) 00:00 Tools
Love And Glory - Feat. Jennifer Warnes 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (with Nadirah Shakoor) 00:00 Tools
Firebird Blues [In Memory of Johnny Winter] 00:00 Tools
Universe (Featuring Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings) - Feat. Jennifer Warnes, Bonus Track 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On (Featuring Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Firebird Blues (In Memory Of Johnny Winter) 00:00 Tools
Universe - Sonny Landreth feat. Vince Gill 00:00 Tools
02-When I Still Had You 00:00 Tools
It Hurt Me Too 00:00 Tools
Gone Pecan (Live) 00:00 Tools
Überesso (Live) 00:00 Tools
C'est chaud - Live 00:00 Tools
03-Way Past Long 00:00 Tools
Introduction 00:00 Tools
05-Storm Of Worry 00:00 Tools
06-Howlin' Moon 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues [feat. Mark Knopfler] 00:00 Tools
Wind In Denver (Live) 00:00 Tools
Groovy Goddess 00:00 Tools
Spider gris 00:00 Tools
Little Wing 00:00 Tools
04-The Milky Way Home 00:00 Tools
08-Let It Fly 00:00 Tools
07-The Goin' On 00:00 Tools
Gaia Tribe (feat. Joe Satriani) 00:00 Tools
Charry Ball Blues 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (Featuring Robben Ford & Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Cannibals 00:00 Tools
USS Zydecoldsmobile 00:00 Tools
U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile (Live) 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
09-Blue Angel 00:00 Tools
11-Universe 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
intro 00:00 Tools
Ay, Ai, Ai 00:00 Tools
Cherry Ball 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home [feat. Eric Johnson] 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (f.Mark Knopfler) 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You [feat. Eric Clapton] 00:00 Tools
Great Gulf Wind (reprise) 00:00 Tools
Storm of Worry [feat. Eric Clapton] 00:00 Tools
Band Intros 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Cannibals (Night In London) 00:00 Tools
Next To Kindred Spirit 00:00 Tools
Promissed Land (With Sonny Landreth) 00:00 Tools
For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings) (Featuring Jennifer Warnes) (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Storm Of Worry (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Fortunate Son 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (With Dr. John/jimmy Buffett) 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Z. Rider (Live) 00:00 Tools
Uberesso (Live) 00:00 Tools
Uberesso (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Backlive 00:00 Tools
Banter 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long (f.Robben Ford) 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly [feat. Nadirah Shakoor] 00:00 Tools
Naitve Stepson 00:00 Tools
Blues Attack [Live] 00:00 Tools
Shootin For The Moon 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Promise Land (Live) 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On (f.Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home (f.Eric Johnson) 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon [feat. Dr. John & Jimmy Buffet] 00:00 Tools
Soul Salvtioan 00:00 Tools
Stage banter 00:00 Tools
Mardi Gra Boogie 00:00 Tools
Hell At Home (with EC) 00:00 Tools
Cannibals (on slide guitar) 00:00 Tools
World Away 00:00 Tools
Louisiana 1927 (From "Sail Away: Songs of Randy Newman") 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On [feat. Vince Gill] 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (With Robben Ford/vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Talor's Rock 00:00 Tools
Z-Rider 00:00 Tools
C'est chaud (Sonny Landreth) 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_08-Key_to_the_Highway 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_02-The_Center 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_06-Blues_Attack 00:00 Tools
Swamp Stomp 00:00 Tools
Passionola (feat. Eric Johnson) 00:00 Tools
Band Introductions 00:00 Tools
Universe (Album Version) 00:00 Tools
Interview 1 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel [feat. Robben Ford & Vince Gill] 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You (f.Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
Umbresso 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (f.Robben Ford & Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (f.Nadirah Shakoor) 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (f.Dr.John & Jimmy Buffett) 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_03-One_Life 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearter Road 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long [feat. Robben Ford] 00:00 Tools
Forever Little Mae 00:00 Tools
Interview 2 00:00 Tools
Universe [feat. Vince Gill] 00:00 Tools
Pedal to Metal [#][*] 07:00 Tools
Storm Of Worry (f.Eric Clapton) 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly (Feat. Nadira Shakoor) 00:00 Tools
When I Still Had You feat. Eric Clapton 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_01-Frisco_Bay 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_04-Black,_White_&_Blue 00:00 Tools
Jam #1 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_05-Names 00:00 Tools
Jam #2 00:00 Tools
God Child 00:00 Tools
That's Why I'm Lonely 00:00 Tools
The Road We`re On 00:00 Tools
Untitled Track 00:00 Tools
The Road Where On 00:00 Tools
Blue Angel (with Robben Ford and Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings) [feat. Jennifer Warnes] 00:00 Tools
Universe (f.Vince Gill) 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues [feat. Mark Knopfler]/feat. Mark Knopfler 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_11-Pine_Grove_Blues 00:00 Tools
The Milky Way Home [feat. Eric Johnson]/feat. Eric Johnson 00:00 Tools
Brawe New Girl 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_10-Baby_Please_Don't_Go 00:00 Tools
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Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_09-At_Some_Time 00:00 Tools
Storm Of Mondays 00:00 Tools
Gravy Train Live 00:00 Tools
Interview 3 00:00 Tools
Outro Interview 00:00 Tools
Ol` Lady Luck 00:00 Tools
Milky Way Home 00:00 Tools
Forgotten Story (feat. Robert Greenidge) 00:00 Tools
Soul Salvation (feat. Bonnie Raitt & Stephen Bruton) 00:00 Tools
Hell At Home (with Eric Clapton) [2016 Remastered] 00:00 Tools
The Road Were On 00:00 Tools
Howlin' Moon (with Dr. John and Jimmy Buffett) 00:00 Tools
Give me one reason 00:00 Tools
Zydeco Shuffle [#] 00:00 Tools
Sonny_Landreth_-_Blues_Attack_-_07-Speak_of_the_Devil 00:00 Tools
Way Past Long [feat. Robben Ford]/feat. Robben Ford 00:00 Tools
Old Flame [#][*] 00:00 Tools
Only One 00:00 Tools
Sonny Landreth - Zydeco Shuffle 00:00 Tools
Bayou Teche 00:00 Tools
Common-Law Love 00:00 Tools
Almost Everybody Slides 00:00 Tools
From the Reach (ALL Previews) NEWEST CD Out 20th May! 00:00 Tools
Congo1 00:00 Tools
Fallin` For You 00:00 Tools
South of 1-10 00:00 Tools
Congo2 00:00 Tools
Interview 4 00:00 Tools
Crossroads Guitar Festival 04:13 Tools
When I Still Had You [feat. Eric Clapton]/feat. Eric Clapton 00:00 Tools
Uberesso (at Crossroads Guitar Festival 2007) 00:00 Tools
J.B. Lenoir Mojo Boogie 00:00 Tools
Th goin' on 00:00 Tools
Love and Glory (feat. Jennifer Warnes & Michael Boucet) 00:00 Tools
Broken Hearted Road [Live] 00:00 Tools
The Goin' On [feat. Vince Gill]/feat. Vince Gill 00:00 Tools
Let It Fly [feat. Nadirah Shakoor]/feat. Nadirah Shakoor 00:00 Tools
Blue Tarp Blues (Live) 00:00 Tools
Ubresso 00:00 Tools
Got To Get You Under My Tree (f. The Dixie Cups) 00:00 Tools
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Sonny Landreth - Blues Attack 00:00 Tools
C'est chaud (Live) 00:00 Tools
Jam #4 00:00 Tools
Blues Chris Duarte, Sonny Land 00:00 Tools
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Clyde Vernon "Sonny" Landreth (born February 1, 1951) is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana. When he is not touring and performing, he resides in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Although Landreth is an extremely competent guitarist in the conventional form, he is most well-known for his slide playing. Landreth has developed a technique where he also frets notes and plays chords and chord fragments behind the slide while he plays. Landreth plays with the slide on his little finger, so that his other fingers have more room to fret behind the slide. He's also known for his unique right-hand technique, which involves tapping, slapping, and picking strings, using all of the fingers on his right hand. Landreth has worked steadily for decades and amassed a following among his fans and peers. Eric Clapton has said he is "probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also probably one of the most advanced. Sonny Landreth's official website (Warning: Flash) is http://www.sonnylandreth.com. ----- Sonny Landreth released his Newest CD: "From the Reach"!“This ninth album, is the first is released on his own Landfall label. On it, the Louisiana-based slide guitar wizard does something unprecedented in his body of work, as he collaborates with five of the greatest guitar players on the planet – Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson and Vince Gill – for some jaw-dropping performances. Also making a house call is legendary New Orleans pianist and singer Dr. John and iconic Gulf Coast troubadour Jimmy Buffett and also features Nadirah Shakoor (backing vocals) from Buffett discovery. On the opener, “Blue Tarp Blues,” Sonny trades solos with Knopfler, and the aural contrast between Sonny’s shimmering slide and the Dire Straits leaders’ biting Strat is a textural treat. Clapton cuts loose on the following “When I Still Had You,” adding his soulful voice to the choruses as well. Slowhand then wails on “Storm Of Worry”, a spooky slow blues reminiscent of his Bluesbreakers era. “The Milky Way Home” is a powerful instrumental rocker that features Eric Johnson on delectably distorted guitar passages that morph into his trademark violin-like sound. “The Goin’ On” shifts into a country rock groove, with Vince Gill and Sonny alternating guitar solos and lead vocals. Robben Ford brings his soulful tone and phrasing to “Way Past Long” and “Blue Angel (the latter with Gill on backing vocals), as Landreth swaps his trusty Strat for a Les Paul. Each of these performances is an extraordinary showcase of brilliant players reacting to each other in supremely inspired fashion. “I’ve wanted to make this kind of record for a long time – to do an entire album that would feature some of my favorite players as special guests,” says Landreth, who’s as articulate as he is virtuosic. “And after all these years, I’ve gotten to become friends with them, so that addressed the question of, who do you ask? Every one of them wanted to do it, so that really fired me up.” “The other thing was how to do it without it being yet another clichéd ‘duets’ album,” he continues. “Then I got the idea to write the songs specifically for each of the artists and that was the real hook for me, as a writer as well as a guitar player. I grew up listening to Eric and Mark, and these other players have influenced me along the way. Not only that, but we all came up listening to a lot of the same music, so we had common ground to work with. Once someone would say yeah, then I had to come up with songs that were worthy of them.” Landreth spent a year writing these songs, and another year putting the album together—a logistical feat of some magnitude considering the fact that every one of the principals, including Landreth, spends considerable time on the road. The process for most of the recording involved two stages. After Landreth had a particular song written, he went in the studio with his band and longtime engineer Tony Daigle and completed the basic tracks, leaving space for the guests. Daigle then sent his mix of the tune to the guest to contribute his or her parts. (The exceptions were the tracks with Gill, which were cut face to face in Nashville, and the one featuring Dr. John, which was recorded in New Orleans.) “I’d get back these fantastic solos, and I’d go, ‘Oh my God, I’ve gotta re-cut mine!” Sonny recalls with a laugh. He’s exaggerating, but he did take a second pass at a couple of his parts. The final stereo mixes feature Landreth on the left and the other players on the right. “We did it to tap into the conversational aspect of it,” Sonny points out. Current technology brought virtually unlimited flexibility to the recording process, but in the end what matters is that the performances truly feel in the moment—even if that moment was actually separated by time and physical distance. “That was of course the goal with these performances,” Sonny confirms. “They’ve gotta feel right. I was going for the essence of what about these fabulous musicians inspired me to begin with, and that’s what I honed in on. I was able to go, ‘This sounds like a lick he would do,’ and then write that into the arrangement. The guests then had a chance to flesh the concepts out. I really wanted to make sure we captured each of their individual voices on the guitar, and I feel like we did that.” In one of two delightful changes of pace to the album’s six-string focus, Dr. John brings the requisite gris-gris to “Howlin’ Moon” with his trademark rollicking piano and harmonies, on which he’s joined by Jimmy Buffett. “Although the central idea of the record was playing with my guitar heroes, I wanted to be open to the unexpected as well,” Sonny explains. “I’d written ‘Howlin’ Moon’ a long time ago, and I always had Dr. John in mind for it. Then we took it a step further with Jimmy’s vocal and the vibe was perfect.” As for the rest, “Let It Fly,” a slice of exotica so warm that sweat drips off it, features backing vocals from Buffett discovery Nadirah Shakoor. The title of “Uberesso,” a blistering instrumental from Landreth and his band, was inspired by Sonny’s passion for espresso. The album closes with the metaphysical ballad “Universe,” as Gill adds his glorious voice to the goosebump finale. Anchoring the grooves is Landreth’s touring rhythm section featuring longtime musical partner Dave Ranson on bass and Mike Burch on drums. Steve Conn, another regular, is on keyboards. Sam Broussard plays acoustic guitar on “Universe” and “Let It Fly.” As for the intriguing album title, “I thought about it a lot,” says Sonny. “One of the most interesting things to me in the songwriting process is letting it cook and bubble and see what comes up to the top. As I was writing these songs, the word ‘reach’ kept coming up, and ‘reach’ is a pretty powerful word. Aside from the obvious meanings, it can refer to a body of water. And the water imagery kept appearing as well, so it’s like this is what came up out of this whole project for me. What would happen if I invited all these people; where would this take me? I literally reached out to them, and they graciously came on board. Then there was the impact locally of Hurricane Katrina. So the title is the result of all of the above. It’s coming from an honest place.” The same could be said of everything this one-of-a-kind artist has done in his single-minded career. Source:-- Bud Scoppa http://vetril.blogspot.com/2008/05/sonny-landreth-new-cd-from-reach.html Landreth was born February 1, 1951, in Canton, MS, and his family lived in Jackson, MS, for a few years before settling in Lafayette, LA. Landreth, who still lives in southwest Louisiana, began playing guitar after a long tenure with the trumpet. His earliest inspiration came from Scotty Moore, the guitarist from Elvis Presley's band, but as time went on, he learned from the recordings of musicians and groups like Chet Atkins and the Ventures. As a teen, Landreth began playing out with his friends in their parents' houses. "They would ping-pong us from one house to another, and though we were all awful at first, as time went on we got pretty good. It's an evolutionary process, just like songwriting is," Landreth explained in an interview on his 44th birthday in 1995. After his first professional gig with accordionist Clifton Chenier in the 1970s (where he was the only White guy in the Red Beans and Rice Revue for awhile), Landreth struck out on his own, but not before he recorded two albums for the Blues Unlimited label out of Crowley, LA, Blues Attack in 1981 and Way Down in Louisiana in 1985. If anyone is living proof of the need to press on in spite of obstacles, it is Landreth. The second of those two albums got him noticed by some record executives in Nashville, which in turn led to his recording and touring work with John Hiatt. That led to still more work with John Mayall, who recorded Landreth's radio-ready "Congo Square." More recently, he's worked with New Orleans bandleader and pianist Allen Toussaint (who guests on several tracks on South of I-10, as does Dire Straits guitarist Mark Knopfler). In the last years he was on tour with guitarist, composer and singer Hank Shizzoe. On Landreth's brilliant albums for Zoo, the lyrics draw the listener in to the sights, sounds, smells and heat of southwest Louisiana, and a strong sense of place is evident in many of Landreth's songs. Although his style is completely his own and his singing is more than adequate, Landreth admits that writers like William Faulkner have had a big influence on his lyric writing. The fact that it's taken so long for academics at American universities to recognize the great body of poetry that blues is concerns Landreth as well. Robert Johnson is Landreth's big hero when it comes to guitar playing. "When I finally discovered Robert Johnson, it all came together for me," Landreth said, noting that he also closely studied the recordings of Skip James, Mississippi John Hurt and Charley Patton. FOR SPECIAL VIDEOS See Also: Youtube channel: "Sonny Landreth's Specials": http://www.youtube.com/user/WilliamMusicEater Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.