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 | Title : The Road We're On
Author : Landreth, Sonny
Release Date : 20030128
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $16.98
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Editorial Reviews :
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
Buyer Reviews :
I was lucky to see Sonny at a small club in Philly last year. This was just before he headed into the studio to record The Road We're On, so the band played the entire CD as a final warm up before recording.
And boy, was it more than warm! EVERY song was high-energy/high volume hard-edged, driving blues/zydeco, with Sonny's guitar much more in front than has been the case on his studio CD's. Each song included an extended solo rather than just ornamental work, so I was really looking forward to the release of the CD.
And it has not disappointed. The Road We're On does a great job of capturing that energy and drive of the live show. Blast the title track and you'll experience being blown off the dance floor to Dave Ranson's power bass and Brian Burch's explosive drumming. And, of course, Sonny wailing with much more (controlled) volume than you've heard before.
You won't find any tunes on the CD with the type of lushness of some of the songs on Levee Town or South of I-10. The production shoots for immediacy, in your face, almost power trio stuff. Much of it sounds like single take, or with minimum overdubs.
I felt like I was back at that club in Philly. Or, from one of the zydeco stompers, Gone Pecan:
'So don't come knockin'
we ain't home
me and mine
are gone pecan'
(by rad518)
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