Sonny Landreth - Live Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 3, 2004
FM Source KBOO Radio @ Flac
Set List:
1. Z Rider
2. Native Stepson
3. Broken Hearted Road
4. Hell At Home
5. Gemini Blues
6. Ioana - Band Intros
7. Blues Attack
8. Pedal To The Metal
9. Congo Square
“… probably the most underestimated musician on the planet and also one of the most advanced.” —Eric Clapton
Known for much of the past decade as the brilliant slide guitarist with John Hiatt and the Goners, Sonny Landreth has come into his own. On his latest release, “The Road We’re On,” Landreth returned to his bluesy roots in the Louisiana swamps and earned a 2004 Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Recording. For all his explorations on past albums and projects, which have led him into Cajun and Zydeco, progressive jazz and the realm of singer-songwriters, the great slide guitarist and songwriter keeps returning home, to the place where American popular music began.
“The blues,” says Landreth, “is the core of it all.”
Some might say Landreth was fated to be a slide guitar wizard, born as he was in Canton, Miss., the birthplace of legendary slide guitarist Elmore James. In fact, when he was five, his family moved to Lafayette, La., where Landreth grew up surrounded by Cajun music and its lifestyle. Landreth picked up trumpet at 10, guitar in his teens, moved with his roots-rock band to Colorado for a while where he met and played with the young fusion-blues guitarist, Robben Ford, and began to develop his unique slide-and-chording guitar technique.
Returning to Louisiana, Landreth worked with several noted Cajun bands, including Zachary Richard, Beausoleil, Red Beans & Rice. In 1979, he became the first white musician hired into the band of the late Zydeco “King,” Clifton Chenier.
In the years that followed, Landreth continued to sharpen his extraordinary guitar chops, while building a reputation as a singer and songwriter. He has done session work for rock guitar giant Leslie West, harmonica legend Junior Wells, Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits, country superstar Dolly Parton, British bluesman John Mayall and singer-songwriters Kenny Loggins, Marshall Crenshaw and John Hiatt.
On his latest release, Landreth revisits the roots that have shaped his life and sound. “It was like going back to the fountain to do ‘The Road We’re On,’” he says. “Playing this music is as natural for me as going to the crawfish festival. It’s something I was born to do.”
Probably recorded by twofthrs!!
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Waterfront Blues '04
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