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Sunday, September 20. 2009

Good music

I was fortunate to attend a private party at which New Orleans' Sonny Landreth played this weekend. A few guys wore their Rock and Bowl bowling shirts: you don't see those too often up here. Mr. Landreth performs at Rock and Bowl regularly.


I guess slide-guitarist Landreth can play anything, but he does like to rock the blues with a Louisiana twist. He's the kind of guy who is in the music, not the audience. Here's a Youtube, with the band he plays with now. He writes songs and sings too, but not on this piece in which he sings through his guitar. Turn your volume to max:


 


 


 

Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 16:06 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Oh yeah! He's an innovator, having developed that fret behind the slide technique you see him use here. He played at Rhythm and Roots in RI a few years ago, where I just missed his acoustic slide blues workshop; I did get to meet him, I asked this guy wandering around backstage if he had seen Billy Payne from Little Feat (I was there to interview him) and it was Sonny himself. Nice guy, humble and personable. He also has played with John Hiatt for many years. Since you're on YooTube, see if one of the Rams Head gigs shows up, where he sat in with the aforementioned Little Feat - classic take of Highway 95 shows him at his best, including comping (accompanying) behind the leaders. I think he also helped develop a computerized re-tuning mechanism that he used to use to switch open tunings between songs.
#1 Steve in CT on 2009-09-20 17:51 (Reply)
There's a Great 'Mountain Stage' episode featuring Sonny. Best American Slide player since Lowell George. thaks for the tasty bit o' guitar.
#2 garrett on 2009-09-21 14:40 (Reply)

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