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Sonny Landreth

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Born in Mississippi, relocated to Lafayette, Louisiana, Sonny Landreth was immersed in the great Swamp-pop and Zydeco music of the area. He picked up a variety of musical styles playing with some of the best musicians on the Louisiana scene, while developing his considerable songwriting skills. One of Sonny's first professional gigs was with Zydeco legend Clifton Chenier. Landreth's guitar capabilities landed him work as a sought-after session musician. He has played on records by John Hiatt, Bonnie Raitt, Zachary Richard, Freddy Fender, John Mayhall, Kenny Loggins, Beausoleill, Junior Wells, Dolly Parton, Maria Muldaur, Allen Toussaint, and Mark Knopfler

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Article: Live Review

Blues From the Top Festival 2025

Read "Blues From the Top Festival 2025" reviewed by Geoff Anderson


Blues From the Top Festival Winter Park, COJune 27-29, 2025 The Town of Winter Park and Grand County have been hosting this summer blues festival for 23 years now. During that time, the festival has grown from a small start-up operation in a field to a three-day festival with national ...

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News: Festival

The Columbia Pike Blues Festival Brings D.C. Community Together on June 14th, 2025

The Columbia Pike Blues Festival Brings D.C. Community Together on June 14th, 2025

Now in its 28th year, The Columbia Pike Blues Festival (June 14, 2025 from 1:00pm-8:30pm) is an electrifying summer celebration that brings music, community, and culture together in the heart of Arlington’s most vibrant corridor. This festival is the largest blues festival in the D.C. metro area. Presented by the Columbia Pike Partnership in partnership with ...

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News: Event

Sol Roots Trio Perform At The Room At Cedar Grove on November 9, 2024

Sol Roots Trio Perform At The Room At Cedar Grove on November 9, 2024

On Saturday November 9, world class guitarist and vocalist Sol Roots brings a trio to perform at the intimate concert hall and supper club, The Room at Cedar Grove, which is located on Delaware's scenic coast. Sol Roots performs an award-winning blend of New Orleans influenced funk, deep blues, heartfelt jazz and soul, and energetic rock. ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Blues With A Feeling: Luther Dickinson & JD Simo; Charlie Hunter & Jubu Smith; Mick Fleetwood & Jake Shimabukuro

Read "Blues With A Feeling: Luther Dickinson & JD Simo; Charlie Hunter & Jubu Smith; Mick Fleetwood & Jake Shimabukuro" reviewed by Doug Collette


The blues is more about feel than form, but even so, the genre has its readily-recognizable structures. The A-A-B lyric format, shuffles in varying tempos and the 12-bar configuration are all stock-in-trade frameworks. Still, the essential simplicity of the blues lends itself to innumerable variations and so it is with these contemporary collaborative works of Luther ...

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Article: Profile

Johnny Vidacovich: Magnet In The Middle

Read "Johnny Vidacovich: Magnet In The Middle" reviewed by Thomas Cole


The ever changing cast of the Johnny Vidacovich Trio defies the meaning of that word--trio . Historically, jazz trios with a drummer in the middle have included such notables as Art Blakey, Gene Krupa and Max Roach but none of those groups changed cast members on a weekly basis or deviated very far from what they ...

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Article: Book Review

Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story

Read "Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story" reviewed by Doug Collette


Have a Little Faith: The John Hiatt Story Michael Elliott 280 pages ISBN: #978-164160420 Chicago Review Press 2021 Reading Have A Little Faith, it becomes clear quite early on how deep and abiding is author Michael Elliott's passion for his subject, In fact, by the time The John Hiatt ...

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Article: Album Review

John Hiatt: The Eclipse Sessions

Read "The Eclipse Sessions" reviewed by Doug Collette


Since John Hiatt hit his artistic and commercial stride with Bring The Family (A&M, 1987), the most listenable and durable albums of his have been those recorded with a band like the one appearing there (eventually known as Little Village: Ry Cooder, Nick Lowe and Jim Keltner). Offering comparably uniform musicianship in proportionate support of this ...

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Recorded Live in Lafayette

Label: Provogue Records
Released: 2017
Track listing: CD1: Blues Attack; Hell at Home; Key to the Highway; Creole Angel; A World Away; The High Side; Bound by the Blues; The USS Zydecoldsmobile. CD2: Back to Bayou Teche; The Milky Way Home; Brave New Girl; Uberesso; Soul Salvation; Walkin’ Blues; One and Only Truth.

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Article: Album Review

Sonny Landreth: Recorded Live in Lafayette

Read "Recorded Live in Lafayette" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


Slide guitarist Sonny Landreth releases his third live recording after 2005's Grant Street (Sugar Hill Records) and 2007's Sonny Landreth -Live at 2007 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (Munckmusic). Far from just another live release from a jam band, Recorded Live in Lafayette reveals some clever programming by Landreth. Disc one of this two-disc set ...


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