by Sonny Landreth List Price:$16.00 Our Price:$13.00 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Product Details
Media: Audio CD
Release Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Label: Sugarhill [Country]
Average Customer Review: 5 Based on 18 reviews.
Sales Rank: 435
Tracks
1.
Wind in Denver
2.
Z. Rider
3.
U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile
4.
Port of Calling
5.
Pedal to Metal
6.
Native Stepson
7.
Gone Pecan
8.
Congo Square
9.
Broken Hearted Road
10.
Blues Attack
11.
All About You
Editorial Review
Just as Muhammad Ali once boasted that he could "float like a butterfly, sting like a bee," Louisiana's Sonny Landreth can make his slide guitar roar like a rocket ship and dance like a ballerina. As this live set recorded on his home turf attests, few guitarists combine such power with such precision. Landreth’s veteran rhythm section of bassist David Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins provides whipcrack support on a set of supercharged instrumentals ("Native Stepson," "Z. Rider," "Pedal to Metal") and original blues ("Broken-Hearted Road," "Wind in Denver"), building to a climax with the guitarist’s signature tune, "Congo Square." Though Landreth established himself as an ace sideman from his apprenticeship with zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier through his extended stint with John Hiatt, he really cuts loose with his own trio, generating a dynamic propulsion that threatens to levitate this Lafayette dancehall. --Don McLeese
Top Customer Reviews
Rating:
5 Great Live Blues
Sonny Landreth is one of the greatest slide guitar players ever, and is even better live. I think that this is his best work yet, and am looking forward to more live albums. I have had the pleasure of seeing him live twice, and if you ever get the chance to go to a show, GO!! It is amazing. Great CD, great live musician.
Rating:
5 In a class by Himself
Very rarely do you run across a musician that totally changes your conception of how an instrument should sound. Sonny is one of those master musicians. I put him in the same category as Roy Buchannon, Jeff Beck, Danny Gatton, Lowell George, Gregg Allman, Hendrix, Clapton, Green, Tommy Bolin, SRV, The Edge etc....... He has his own sound and incredible style. For anyone who loves guitar, buy this CD. Simply Masterful!
Rating:
5 P:ure Magic
I happened across Sonny Landreth through guitar player mags and bought Grant Street based on what I'd read and learned from his generous sharing there. And discovered magic. SL is clearly technically superb but more, he (and his able mates) create a feel and sound that send shivers up the spine and out the fingers and toes. There are tone moments on this CD that make the hair on the back of my head (the only place it's left) stand straight out. Clearly one of the great guitar players of our time. The vocals won't carry you home but they well serve all the rest that transpires between these 3 (only 3!) great musicians. Sonny's work IS what will carry the blues into the future with all respect to the past.
