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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. Check our available Sonny Landreth concert ticket inventory and get your tickets here at ConcertBank now. Sign up for an email alert to be notified the moment we have tickets!


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- www.offbeat.com
Down In Louisiana, South Of I-10, Levee Town, and now Grant Street—slide guitar phenom Sonny Landreth wants you to know he's from Lafayette, dammit. Which makes sense, actually: his guitar playing doesn't quite give his breeding away, for one because the blues is truly universally all right, and for two because Sonny's unique style sounds like it came from another planet entirely...
- www.offbeat.com
Very few Gulf Coast musicians stirring up any kind of dust during the '60s avoided the hustle of Louisiana-born, Texas-dwelling producer Huey P. Meaux. Sonny Landreth was no exception, hooking up with the "Crazy Cajun"—as Meaux referred to himself—at the dawn of his career. Landreth brought with him a virtuoso slide guitar style similar to Duane Allman's and an approach to his instrument that brought comparisons to Leo Kottke...
- www.offbeat.com
Steak is good, and bleu cheese, mushrooms and sautéed onions are all good on a steak, but you don't want them all on it at once. Stack enough stuff on top and the steak gets lost, and to some extent, that's the story of From the Reach. You have the perfectly fine guitar playing of Sonny Landreth backed by drums and bass and organ and percussionists and a host of guest artists—Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Dr. John, Jimmy Buffett and more...
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Thus, the significance of Sonny Landreth is that he is the best slide guitar player playing and he has just released a live recording, Grant Street... Sonny Landreth Grant Street Sugar Hill Records 2005 "A [man] had commenced plunking a guitar beside me while I slept...as he played, he pressed a knife on the strings of the guitar in a manner popularized by Hawaiian guitarists who used steel bars. The effect was unforgettable. His song, too, struck me instantly.....
- www.allaboutjazz.com
Ace guitarist Landreth came to our attention two years ago via his superb playing on Shelby Lynne's Love, Shelby (a great record robbed of credibility by its ludicrous jailbait cover). His own album of southern blues and swamp rock is full of virtuoso playing, and he's part of a new white blues revival that includes the North Mississippi All-Stars and Doyle Bramhall. But he's going to need stronger songs to carry it off as a solo artist rather than a talented sideman...
- www.uncut.co.uk
Sound: This is blues guitarist/singer Sonny Landreths 7th studio album. It is influenced, as most of his work, by Cajun and Zydeco. He recorded the Album with his band ("The Goners"), which consists of Dave Ranson on bass and Michael Burch on drums. They were supported by Steve Conn on keyboards, Sam Broussard on acousitc guitar and Tony Daigle and Brian Brignac on percussion...
- www.ultimate-guitar.com
What are Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler, Jimmy Buffett, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson, Dr. John and Robben Ford doing on this record? They're trying to get you to notice Sonny Landreth, a major figure to anybody who's ever heard the extraordinary Louisiana slide guitarist play live or listened to any of his nine or so previous records. Landreth is a 57-year-old slide guitar master from Lafayette, La. He is not exactly a secret, but any kind of widespread recognition has eluded him thus far...
- www.sfgate.com
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