Sonny Landreth
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Biography
[Edit]Southwest Louisiana-based guitarist, songwriter, and singer Sonny Landreth is a musician's musician. The blues slide guitar playing found on his two Zoo Entertainment releases, Outward Bound (1992) and South of I-10 (1995) is distinctive and unlike anything else you've ever heard. His unorthodox guitar style comes from the manner in which he simultaneously plays slide and makes fingering movements on the fretboard. Landreth, who has an easygoing personality, can play it all, like any good session musician. His distinctive guitar playing can be heard on recordings by John Hiatt, Leslie West and Mountain, and other rock & rollers.
Landreth was born February 1, 1951, in Canton, Mississippi, and his family lived in Jackson, Mississippi, for a few years before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana. Landreth 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 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 '70s (where he was the only white guy in the Red Beans & 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, Louisiana, 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).
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 to be found in the blues 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. Landreth finally released an all- instrumental album, Elemental Journey, in 2012, his eleventh solo project.
Title: Live At The 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival
Artist: Sonny Landreth
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: Louisiana Code (Live Chicago 1993)
Artist: Sonny Landreth
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Voices of Americana: Sonny Landreth
Artist: Sonny Landreth
Genre: Blues, Rock, Songwriter/Lyricist
Collections
Title: 22 Special Blues Tracks - Down by the River
Genre: Blues
Title: 21st Century Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Must Have Blues Songbook
Genre: Blues
Title: Shakin' All Over: Jukebox Dance Party
Genre: Blues
Title: The Greatest Swamp Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Rock Royale
Genre: Blues
Title: Toast to Freedom - Single
Genre: Rock
Title: Top 20 Louisiana Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Toast to Freedom - Single
Genre: Rock
Title: Moody Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Scene: The 90s
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues Collaborations
Genre: Blues
Title: American Blues - Guitar Greats
Genre: Blues
Title: Mudslides and Bottlenecks
Genre: Blues
Title: Christmas Gumbo
Genre: World Music
Title: A Blues Tribute to Creedence Clearwater Revival
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Pop
Title: BamFest Volume II
Genre: Blues
Title: Rare Slide Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Discover - Shuffle Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Superstars Sing the Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Louisiana Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Big Easy Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best of Swamp Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Swamp Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Slide Guitarists
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Guitar Deluxe
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Southern Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock n Roll Blues Essentials
Genre: Blues
Title: Contemporary Chicago Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: New Orleans to Baton Rouge - Louisiana Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Chill Out Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: New Orleans Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Greatest Acoustic Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Devils and Angels Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues: Funkytown!
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Electric Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Picks
Genre: Blues
Title: Top 20 Blues Musicians
Genre: Blues
Title: Electric Blues Nuggets
Genre: Blues
Title: Hound Dog Taylor - A Tribute
Title: Hits of Slide Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Golden Louisiana Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: The Most Essential Blues Rock
Genre: Blues
Title: Best - Slide Guitar Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Story CD 8
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Story CD 11
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues Story CD 30
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues - Rock - Vol. 12 (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Title: 100 Hits: Guitar Heroes (CD 4)
Genre: Rock
Title: Crossroads Guitar Festival
Genre: Blues Rock
Title: Guitar Rock (CD2)
Genre: Rock
Title: Paint It Blue: Songs Of The Rolling Stones
Genre: Blues
Title: Crucial Slide Guitar Blues
Title: Akella Presents - Blues-Rock - Vol. 12 (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock
Title: Time Blues (Blues Collection Vol. 15)
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: Louisiana 2: Live From Mountain Stage (Stage 2)
Genre: Blues
Title: 100 Hits: Guitar Heroes
Title: The Blues Magazine Vol. 22
Genre: Blues Rock
Title: Blues Magazine Vol. 26: The Cream Of 2015
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: Blues Rock Deep Cuts
Genre: Blues Rock
Featuring albums
Title: Great Gypsy Soul
Artist: Tommy Bolin
Genre: Jazz, Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Pop
Title: Tribute To The Allman Brothers Band
Artist: Midnight Rider
Genre: Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Crossroads Revisited Selection (CD1)
Artist: Eric Clapton
Genre: Soul, Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Eric Clapton And Guests: Crossroads Revisited
Artist: Eric Clapton
Genre: Hip Hop/R&B, Soul, Blues, Jazz, Rock & Roll, Pop, Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: The Thrill Is Gone / I Just Want To Make Love To You
Artist: Peter Frampton Band
Genre: Blues
Title: Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 (CD1)
Artist: Eric Clapton
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Country