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| Supplier : Brotherhood Of Satan Release Date : 08/13/2004 |
| Ripper : Brotherhood Of Satan Record Label : Demon Music Group |
| Genre : Blues Quality : VBR/APS/44,1kHz |
| Tracks : 20 Tracks Channels : Joint Stereo |
| Year : 2004 Size : 94,7 MB |
| Language : English Rating : 70% of 100% |
_| Grabber : EAC v0.95 Prebeta 5 Encoder : LAME v3.90.3 |_
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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
fret board. Landreth, who has an easygoing personality, can play it
all, like any good recording-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, 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).
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.
http://www.sonnylandreth.com
Tracks:
01. I Know You Rider (4:02)
02. Prodigal Son (2:55)
03. Country Blues (2:46)
04. Don't Cry For Me (3:17)
05. M'Sippi Blues (4:06)
06. Lady Come Lately (3:07)
07. She Left Me A Mule (3:32)
08. Forever Lillie Mae (3:09)
09. That's The Way It's Gonna Be (2:36)
10. Sunrise (5:51)
11. Good Enough For Me (2:53)
12. Rise Shining (3:47)
13. Baby Ain't That Love (2:41)
14. Ain't Gonna Worry (5:59)
15. Lazy Boy (3:25)
16. The Only One (2:46)
17. Think It Over (Lazy Boy) (2:11)
18. You're Why I'm So Lonely (3:01)
19. Lookin' For A Good Time (4:22)
20. Lazy Boy (Reprise) (0:34)
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