The Road We're On
Sonny Landreth's 10-year career as a leader has always seemed tenuous, because he's a one-dimensional singer and only an adequate songwriter. But these 12 numbers run deeper than his previous recordings. Like much of his catalog, they straddle the worlds of blues, Cajun and zydeco, and New Orleans party music, but the blues dominates. And that gives the conflagrant Mississippi-born and Louisiana-raised slide guitarist plenty of fuel. So he burns liberally at every turn, from the acoustic resonator guitar that opens and closes the disc to the percolating funk of "Hell at Home" and the Allmans-like, riff-driven intensity of "Fallin' for You." "A World Away" is this album's tour de force, with Landreth summoning soul from the seldom-used soft side of his voice and slow, moaning guitar lines, whose steel-on-steel cries echo the resigned heartbreak of the lyrics. The CD's sterling production puts Landreth's guitar front and center, which reaffirms the former John Hiatt and Clifton Chenier sideman's instrumental mastery. --Ted Drozdowski more
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Recent Reviews
- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-06-2008
- The perfect guitar album?
From opening track to the final note, this cd is fantastic! I have to say that this cd has spent the most time in my cd player over the past several years than any other. That tells you it is one that you can listen to over and over....
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-31-2008
- Great Album
I bought his latest, "From the Reach" I liked it so much that I started working backwards and buying his previous recordings. "Grant Street" was a great album too and the next mouse click brought this one in the mail. What a nice...
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-06-2007
- Sonny Landreth - More Great Slide Guitar
Landreth takes another 3 year break between albums finally releasing "Road" in 2003. This is another solid release from Landreth featuring plenty of smoking slide guitar and Cajun blues. The album frequently steps into more straight...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Nov-07-2006
- Six Stars? Maybe Eight?
The only way Sonny Landreth gets better than this is live in concert. "The Road We're On" has it all: Sonny's unique synthesis of blues, rock, zydeco and that special touch of genius that is pure Sonny. His songwriting reaches a peak...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-06-2008
- The perfect guitar album?
From opening track to the final note, this cd is fantastic! I have to say that this cd has spent the most time in my cd player over the past several years than any other. That tells you it is one that you can listen to over and over....
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-20-2003
- better as the sidekick
Elvis and Ricky had James Burton; for a little while, Roger McGuinn had Clarence White; Tom Petty has Mike Campbell; and so forth. Sonny is a master guitar player who shines best behind someone else's songs and someone else's voice....
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