#sonny landreth

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John Hiatt and the Goners - Tennessee Plates

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Sonny Landreth - The High Side (Recorded Live In Lafayette)

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Cover Friday: U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile

U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile was originally recorded by Sonny Landreth in 2000 and covered by Jimmy Buffett in 2002.

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"Give Me One Reason”

Since the Grammys the other night and we’re all giving Tracy Chapman her well-deserved flowers, I want to highlight another cover of hers that’s pretty damn good. This is from Junior Well’s final studio album, 1996's Come On In This House. At the time, both acoustic albums and albums featuring blues survivors with young guns were big sellers, so Junior pulled a two-for. Furthermore, the album spotlighted slide guitarists like Derek Trucks and Alvin Youngblood Heart. Lousiana man Sonny Landreth is laying out the licks here.

This song (from her fourth album, New Beginnings, 1995) was an enormous hit for Chapman, topping multiple charts including the Adult Top 40 and Number Two on the Billboard charts. Junior’s album won him a Grammy and a W.C. Handy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album. It was also the last studio album released before Junior’s passing in 1998. His cover also got a good bit of airplay back when radio still did that sort of thing.

Long tied with brother-in-the-blues Buddy Guy, Junior cut a singular figure in the blues harp world. He may not have had the raw chops of Little Walter or either Sonny Boy, but what Junior had was swagger. He modeled a lot of his post-’60s persona after James Brown - going so far as to call himself the Godfather of the Blues - but there was always a strut in his voice and harp work.

Junior liked to have fun and clown around, so his studio work can be spotty. However, his first album Hoodoo Man Blues from 1965 is one of the very few must-have non-collection albums in blues music and Come On This House is one of the finest examples of an old dog teaching young pups new tricks.

There’s a certain poetry to that, the Alpha and Omega, and I think that’s pretty cool.

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1. Have a Dedicated Guitar Set up for Slide

2. Start With an E Tuning

3. Try Heavier Gauge Strings

4. Find the Happy Couple

“Match the size and weight of your slide with your string gauge. There is no one combination that is best for everyone, so it’ll take a bit of experimentation. You want a slide that isn’t so heavy that it chokes out on thinner strings, but isn’t so light that you don’t get enough sustain with thicker strings.

“There’s a universe of different options out there – glass, metal, porcelain to name a few – all of which are worthy of consideration. You can always change up later, but first go with what resonates with you and feels the most like home.”

5. Learn to Pick Fingerstyle

6. Improve Your Intonation With This Cool Trick

7. Vibrato Like a Leslie Cabinet

8. Practice With a Click or Metronome

9. Double Your Mojo – On Acoustic

10. Become the Horn Section

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"Too Far To Be Gone" by Shemekia Copeland, Sonny Landreth https://ift.tt/LWKMFtg

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John Hiatt with Sonny Landreth - Crazy Thing Called Love

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Review: Shemekia Copeland - Done Come Too Far

  Review: Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far   Shemekia Copeland – Done Come Too Far Format: CD – Vinyl LP – Digital / Label: Alligator Records Release: 2022 Tekst: Tom Wouters Shemekia Copeland is de leading lady of contemporary blues sinds ze in 2018 met ‘America’s Child’ een niets ontziend muzikaal beeld schetste van het huidige Amerika. In 2020 bevestigde ze dat nog eens met het fraaie…

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“Give Me One Reason“

 This is the Tracy Chapman tune from her fourth album, 1995′s New Beginnings. Junior covered it for his last studio album before his death, 1996′s Come On In This House. The record was a twofer. It was his “acoustic” record and his “old master plays with young bucks” record that every blues guy did after John Lee Hooker’s The Healer from 1989. The other gimmick was that everyone involved were slide guitar players, either primarily or were handy enough to pull it off.

 Most of Junior’s records on the Telarc label are held in low esteem, but this is considered one of his best. The only album considered superior should be 1965′s Hoodoo Man Blues, his first record, and there’s a certain poetry to that. That’s Sonny Landreth playing slide guitar.

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John Hiatt and the Goners - Memphis in the Meantime with the great Sonny Landreth