Sonny Landreth - Elemental Journey - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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; disc one contains a full acoustic set and disc two his full electric set. Album Tracks 1. Blues Attack (Live) 2. Hell at Home (Live) 3. Key to the Highway (Live) 4. Creole Angel (Live) 5. A World Away (Live) 6. The High Side (Live) 7. Bound By the Blues (Live) 8. The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile (Live) 1. Back to Bayou Teche (Live) 2. True Blue (Live) 3. The Milky Way Home (Live) 4. Brave New Girl (Live) 5. Überesso (Live) 6. Soul Salvation (Live) 7. Walkin' Blues (Live) 8. The One and Only Truth (Live)

Sonny Landreth was born in Canton, Mississippi, and settled in Lafayette, Louisiana. Landreth is known as InchThe King Of SlydecoInch and plays with a strong zydeco influence. Sweet swamp water music from the southern Louisiana bayou. His slide playing is like no other. In concert you'd swear there are two players. Bonamassa has lovingly called him a Inchfreak of natureInch. Allen Toussaint plays the piano on the album and there's a guest appearance by Mark Knopfler (guitar and vocals) on 'Shooting At The Moon' and 'Creole Angel'. Sonny Landreth's music combines the best of Zydeco, New Orleans R&B, Cajun, and Rock & Roll into one mood-elevating experience. Album Tracks 1. Shooting for the Moon (Feat. Mark Knopfler) 2. Creole Angel 3. Native Stepson 4. Orphans of the Motherland 5. Congo Square 6. Turning Wheel 7. South of I-10 8. Cajun Waltz 9. Mojo Boogie 10. C'est Chaud 11. Great Gulf Wind

Sonny Landreth's new album Bound By The Blues marks a return to the slide guitarist's musical roots. It presents a bold, big-sounding collection of recordings that climb to stratospheric heights of jazz informed improvisation, the best of classic rock, and inevitably remain deeply attached to the elemental emotional and compositional structures that are at the blues' historic core. Album Tracks 1. Walkin' Blues 2. Bound By the Blues 3. The High Side 4. It Hurts Me Too 5. Where They Will 6. Cherry Ball Blues 7. Firebird Blues (In Memory of Johnny Winter) 8. Dust My Broom 9. Key to the Highway 10. Simcoe Street