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: The Best In Contemporary Blues
Genre: Blues
Title: Rockin' The Blues 2017 (Jamal The Moroccan)
Genre: Rock
Title: Rockin’ The Blues 2017
Title: Rock Drive 10 (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Glam Rock, Hard Rock, Punk Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: 100% Blues Ballads & Slow Blues 5CD Vol. 1
Genre: Blues
Title: 100% Blues Ballads & Slow Blues 5CD Vol. 3
Genre: Blues
Title: Rock Drive 10 (CD2)
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 6
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Punk Rock
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 28
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 29
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 30
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 39
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 47
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 48
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 46
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 50
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 41
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 45
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 58
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 59
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 56
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 57
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Blues Rock Forward! 61
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Title: Slow Blues - My Soul Cries Out (CD2)
Genre: Blues, Rock, Punk Rock, Progressive Metal, Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Slow Blues - My Soul Cries Out (CD3)
Genre: Blues, Rock, Hard Rock, Punk Rock, Metal, Progressive Metal, Pop, Pop Rock, Alternative, Instrumental, Instrumental
Title: Rock Drive 11 (CD1)
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock, Heavy Metal, Progressive Metal
Title: My Way. The Best Collection. Vol. 21
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Country
Title: 101 Blues Licks (CD1)
Genre: Blues
Title: Every Country Song You Need 2014 (CD1)
Genre: Country
Title: 101 American Favorites 2014 (CD1)
Genre: Blues, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: My Way. The Best Collection. Vol. 38
Genre: Blues, Rock, Blues Rock, Punk Rock, World Music, Country, Folk
Title: Crossroads Guitar Festival 2013
Genre: Blues, Blues Rock
Title: Red Velvet Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Return To The Dream (CD2)
Title: The Charming Blues (CD2)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blue Fish Collection (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues For Your Evening (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues For Your Evening 2023 (CD3)
Genre: Blues
Title: Blues In The Garden (CD3)
Genre: Blues
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