GRANT STREET

Product Description

Recorded on his home turf in Louisianna Sonny Landreth pulls out all of the stops's on his first live album calling on material from throughout his career. Originally released on Sugar Hill in 2003, Grant Street demonstrates why he's the slide guitarist of choice to Jimmy Buffett, Mark Knopfler, and why Clapton regards him as the greatest slide player alive. Sonny s veteran rhythm section of bassist David Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins provides whipcrack support on this supercharged set of instrumentals and original blues. Features his signature opener Native Stepson, Congo Square, Blues Attack, and 8 others.

Review

Just as Muhammad Ali once boasted that he could float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, Louisiana's Sonny Landreth can make his slide guitar roar like a rocket ship and dance like a ballerina. As this live set recorded on his home turf attests, few guitarists combine such power with such precision. Landreth's veteran rhythm section of bassist David Ranson and drummer Kenneth Blevins provides whipcrack support on a set of supercharged instrumentals (Native Stepson, Z. Rider, Pedal to Metal) and original blues (Broken-Hearted Road, & Wind in Denver, building to a climax with the guitarists signature tune, Congo Square. Though Landreth established himself as an ace sideman from his apprenticeship with zydeco kingpin Clifton Chenier through his extended stint with John Hiatt, he really cuts loose with his own trio, generating a dynamic propulsion that threatens to levitate this Lafayette dancehall. --Don McLeese --amazon.com