Set I
01 Z-Rider
02 South of I-10
03 Native Stepson
04 Promise Land
05 Wind In Denver
06 Port of Calling
07 Blues Attack
08 U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile

Set II
09 Broken Hearted Road
10 All About You
11 Back to Bayou Teche
12 Gone Pecan
13 Pedal to Metal
 encore:
14 Congo Square

Eugene Celebration
Broadway Plaza Stage
Eugene, OR
2005.10.02

Sonny Landreth’s unique spin on guitar playing has made him legendary. He combines the slide with fretted notes; this finger picking technique helps him create a complex, multi-layered sound onstage. Along the way Landreth has continued to develop his vision and his musical voice, growing increasingly original and diverse, expanding from blues, zydeco, folk, country and jazz into increasingly category- blurring musical excursions. The album Recorded Live in Lafayette is a perfect showcase of Landreth’s talents and skills. ---amazon.com

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1. Levee Town
2. This River
3. The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile
4. Love and Glory
5. Broken Hearted Road
6. Spider-Gris
7. Godchild
8. Turning With The Century
9. Z. Rider
10. Soul Salvation
11. Angeline
12. Deep South

Sonny Landreth - Guitar, Vocals, Horn
David Ranson - Bass
Michael Organ - Drums, Percussion
Steve Conn - Keyboards
Sam Broussard - Acoustic Guitar
Stephen Bruton Leslie - Guitar
Michael Doucet - Fiddle
Errol Verret - Accordion
Joseph "Zydeco Joe" Mouton - Accordion, Rubboard
Danny Kimball - Rubboard
Steve Howard - Trumpet
Jon Smith - Tenor Saxophone
Bonnie Raitt - Background Vocals
John Hiatt - Background Vocals
Jennifer Warnes - Background Vocals
Herb Pedersen - Background Vocals
Marce LaCouture - Background Vocals
Mike Post - Keyboards, Producer, Horn Arrangements

This is slide guitar wizard Sonny Landreth's most ambitious work, and true to form it comes with no glossy fanfare (even the packaging is sepia tinted), just straight-ahead, well-crafted songs played with his usual intelligent, heartfelt playing. Like the photos that are easily passed over due to the quiet subtly of the sepia tones, the intricacy of his guitar work can easily be overshadowed by the flash that is inherent in the slide guitar. He takes the time here to do a number of acoustic songs and shows that there is more to him than a loud flash. Give a listen to "Love and Glory," in which he is helped out by Jennifer Warnes and Herb Pedersen doing background vocals, Errol Verret on accordion, and some stunning fiddle work by Michael Doucet. He wrote all the songs except "Angeline," which he co-wrote with Will Jennings, and his sophistication as a storyteller is becoming more fully developed. This is a disc that shows his true maturity as a songwriter. He has a tight band working with him, and he employs his friends, who help him out to his best advantage. There is plenty of straight-ahead high voltage Zydeco here, and there is also the quieter more introspective song. A well realized and balanced piece of work that truly reflects Landreth's Zydeco/Louisiana roots. ---Bob Gottlieb, Rovi

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1. Sound Check Jam
2. Promised Land
3. Hell At Home
4. Rock It On Out
5. Blue Top Blue
6. Key To The Highway
7. Zidaco Slide
8. Our Way
9. All About Me
10. Bigdhot

White Mountain Boogie and Blues Festival Grounds
Thornton, NH , USA, 8/16/2009

Founded in 1996, the White Mountain Boogie N’ Blues Festival offers blues fans an ideal venue for live music. The three-day festival is held at the famed Sugar Shack Campground. Based in southwest Louisiana, guitarist, singer and songwriter Landreth is a true master of the slide guitar. He received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Recording for his seventh album, “The Road We’re On,” released in 2003 on Sugar Hill Records. Landreth has collaborated with legendary rocker Eric Clapton, who calls him “the most underestimated and advanced musician on the planet.” --- livebluesworld.com

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01 – Gaia Tribe
02 – For You And Forever
03 – Heavy Heart Rising
04 – Wonderide
05 – Passionola
06 – Letting Go
07 – Elemental Journey
08 – Brave New Girl
09 – Forgotten Story
10 – Reckless Beauty
11 – Opening Sky

Personnel:
Sonny Landreth - Composer, Guitar, Primary Artist, Producer
Mike Burch - rums
Steve Conn - Keyboards
Mark Pritchard - Cello
Dave Ranson – Bass
Joel Martinez – Violin
Pedro Huff - Cello
Emil Ivanv – Viola
Lauren Baker - 	Violin
Morgan Bartholick - Viola
Doug Belote - Drums
Eric Johnson - Guitar, Guest Artist
Robert Greenidge - Drums (Steel), Guest Artist

Sonny Landreth is known for his brilliant Mississippi and Louisiana-styled slide guitar playing, and he's a pretty good songwriter as well, and he can sing just fine, and he has a strong sense of place and purpose, and he knows how to play the blues. But most of all, Landreth plays guitar, and he does it so elegantly and gracefully that it becomes a voice of its own. Elemental Journey is Landreth's 11th solo album, and it's his first all-instrumental outing, and folks, this isn't a blues album. It's a wonderfully bright, woven mesh of blues, strings, rock, zydeco, country, reggae, and jazz that shifts and turns and builds within each track, and all of it fits seamlessly together like a huge musical quilt made for guitar heaven. Track after track surprises and amazes here, from the opening "Gaia Tribe," which features guest Joe Satriani on guitar, through the stirring "Heavy Heart Rising" and the joyous "Wonderide" and "Passionola" (this one features Eric Johnson on guitar) to the Caribbean shuffle of "Forgotten Story," complete with steel drums from Robert Greenidge. Members of the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra are here, too, and the touches of violins, cellos, and violas that appear and fade appropriately throughout these tracks keep everything fresh, and there's always some new guitar line coming in. This is a wonderfully bright album, stirring and impressive. This man can play guitar, and while his one-of-a-kind slide playing may always be his bread and butter, he shows clearly in these tracks that he can play the instrument in a thousand different ways. This isn't a typical Landreth album by any means, at least not to date, but it is one of his best. --- Steve Leggett, All Music Guide

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01 – Ay Ai Ai		play
02 – Sugar Cane		play
03 – I Had A Dream
04 – Without My Baby
05 – Congo Square
06 – Checking Up On My Baby
07 – The Parish Line
08 – Little India
09 – If I Ever Get Lucky
10 – Everybody’s Breakin’ Everybody’s Heart

Personnel:
Sonny Landreth - vocals, guitar
Dave Ransom - bass
Mel Milton - vocals, harmonicas
Mike Binet – Drums

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 fretboard. Landreth, who has an easygoing personality, can play it all, like any good 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, Mississippi, and his family lived in Jackson, Mississippi, for a few years before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana. Landreth 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 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 '70s (where he was the only white guy in the Red Beans & 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, Louisiana, 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 to be found in the blues 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. ---Richard Skelly, AMG

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01. True Blue
02. Hell at Home
03. All About You
04. A World Away
05. Gone Pecan		play
06. Natural World
07. The Promise Land
08. Falling for You		play
09. Ol' Lady Luck
10. Gemini Blues
11. The Road We're On
12. Juke Box Mama

Personnel: 
Sonny Landreth (vocals, guitar); 
Steve Conn (keyboards); 
Dave Ranson (bass); 
Mike Burch, Brian Brignac (drums); 
Danny Kimball, Joe Broussard (rubboard); 
Tony Daigle. R.S. Field (percussion); 
Marc Broussard (background vocals).

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

Guitar whiz Sonny Landreth hails from the Mississippi/Louisiana region, and his ability to bridge swamp rock, blues, and zydeco is a reflection of his home area's rep as a wonderful melting pot of roots music. THE ROAD WE'RE ON affirms Landreth's ability to tap into this well of inspiration, and with slide in hand the charter member of John Hiatt's Goners puts on a dazzling display. "All About You" finds him using a growling guitar to shape a Stevie Ray Vaughan-flavored shuffle, the snappy "Juke Box Mama" switches to some finely plucked steel-string work, and "Gone Pecan" chugs along convincingly with zydeco serving as the main source of inspiration.

Although the lyrics on this entirely self-penned effort tend to be a bit on the light side, Landreth's mastery of the six-string provides to be a sufficient to carry him through. Be it slow blues ("A World Away"), faux swing (the title track), or jammy southern rock ("Gemini Blues"), Landreth mastery of his instrument makes this album quite the satisfying listen.

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