#sonny landreth

[jt1674]

[rolloroberson]

John Hiatt and the Goners - Tennessee Plates

[krispyweiss]

Album Review: Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood - Blues Experience

Blues Experience feels like an opportunity missed for Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood.

Because while the ukulele master and the former Bluesbreakers and Fleetwood Mac drummer strike a few chunks of gold - notably on Jeff Beck’s “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers,” with Sonny Landreth on slide guitar; the album’s lone original, Shimabukuro’s “Kula Blues;” and Gary Moore’s “Still Got the Blues” - the album, with Jackson Waldhoff on bass and Michael Grande on keys, contains a ton of filler.

Forgetting the instrumental LP is supposed to be a Blues Experience, Fleetwood overlooked all the blues tracks in his repertoire in favor of ambient and spoken-word versions of Christine McVie’s “Songbird.” What are supposed to be heartfelt tributes come off as misplaced and overwrought, respectively.

“As the Songbird sings, now from the heavens/to you, Christine, I wish you all the love in the world/but most of all, I wish it from myself/I wish it from myself,” Fleetwood intones on the latter.

And though Shimabukuro, in a startling display of innovation and virtuosity, proves the uke every bit as sharp as an axe, that doesn’t prevent the quartet from transforming Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” into elevator music and casting Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” into the soundtrack recording for a club that failed to obtain licensing.

Grade card: Jake Shimabukuro and Mick Fleetwood - Blues Experience - C

12/5/24

[musicmags]

[dearyallfrommatt]

"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.

[daddysmusicblog]

[tratadista]

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

[dailyjimmybuffett]

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.

[davidnajewiczphotography]

Blues Tent - NOLA Jazz and Heritage Festival, a few years ago - is that Sonny Landreth? Just saw WWOZ has early VIP passes for sale for 2024 Fest....

[musicman69love]

Sonny Landreth on the slide.

[jt1674]

[rolloroberson]

John Hiatt with Sonny Landreth - Crazy Thing Called Love

[krispyweiss]

Jeff Beck’s Final Recording to be Part of Mark Knopfler’s Teen Cancer Charity Single

- New recording of “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero)” will be released March 15 and credited to Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes

Jeff Beck’s final recording - or at least parts of it - will be released March 15 on a new recording of “Going Home (Theme from Local Hero),” which Mark Knopfler spearheaded as a charity single benefitting Teenage Cancer Trust and Teen Cancer America.

Beck is just one of more than 60 musicians - including another Yardbird, a Beatle, a Stone, two Whos, two Eagles, a Black Sabbath and a Pink Floyd, a Genesis, a Lovin’ Spoonful and a Queen, to name a few - who came together, mostly remotely, under the banner of Mark Knopfler’s Guitar Heroes to make the nine-minute recording.

“I think what we’ve had is an embarrassment of riches,” Knopfler said in a news release quoted by NME.

Knopfler teased the track with a 15-second snippet that reveals the familiar melody of the 1983 song, but little else.

In addition to Beck, contributors include Joe Bonamassa, Paul Carrack, Eric Clapton, Ry Cooder, Steve Cropper, Roger Daltrey, Peter Frampton, Audley Freed, Vince Gill, David Gilmour, Buddy Guy, Tony Iommi, Joan Jett, Sonny Landreth, Albert Lee, Greg Leisz, Alex Lifeson, Steve Lukather, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mason, Brian May, John McLaughlin, Tom Morello, Rick Nielsen, Nile Rodgers, Mike Rutherford, Joe Satriani, John Sebastian, Slash, Bruce Springsteen, Ringo Starr and Zak Starkey, Sting, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks, Pete Townshend, Steve Vai, Waddy Wachtel, Joe Walsh and Ronnie Wood among others.

Produced by Knopfler’s former Dire Straits bandmate Guy Fletcher, the track will be available on vinyl, CD, BluRay, download and streaming.

“What I really want to do, more than anything else, is just to thank each and every one (of the contributors) for this sterling response,” Knopfler said. “I really had no idea that it was going to be like this.”

2/8/24

[daddysmusicblog]

[longliverockback]

Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 2023 2024 Crossroads ——————————————————————— Tracks LP One: 01. Groovy Goddess - Sonny Landreth 02. Every Night Is Saturday Night - James Bullard 03. Give Your Love to Someone Else - Judith Hill with Eric Gales 04. Habits - Gary Clark Jr. 05. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning - The Del McCoury Band, Sierra Hull, Jerry Douglas & Bradley Walker 06. Walk on Boy - Sierra Hull 07. Today I Started Loving You Again - Bradley Walker 08. Always on My Mind - Bradley Walker & Eric Clapton 09. Fall Like Rain - The Del McCoury Band with Eric Clapton

Tracks LP Two: 01. Smokestack Lightning - Eric Gales, Samantha Fish & Christone Ingram 02. Layla - Eric Gales, Samantha Fish & Christone Ingram 03. Put That Back- Eric Gales, Samantha Fish & Christone Ingram 04. Going Down - Samantha Fish & Christone Ingram 05. Sideways - Citizen Cope 06. A Put a Spell on You - Samantha Fish with Eric Gales & Christone Ingram 07. Breaking up Somebody’s Home - Joe Bonamassa

Tracks LP Three: 01. Ain’t Nobody’s Business but My Own - Taj Mahal 02. Early in the Morning - Taj Mahal 03. Texas Flood - Jimmie Vaughan with Gary Clark Jr. 04. Sweet Home Chicago - Jimmie Vaughan 05. Redemption Day - Sheryl Crow 06. Turn! Turn! Turn! - Roger McGuinn with the Wallflowers 07. Eight Miles High - Roger McGuinn with Eric Clapton & the Wallflowers 08. Bluebird - Stephen Stills with Eric Clapton & the Wallflowers

Tracks LP Four: 01. Für Elise • Foxy Lady - Robert Randolph with Eric Clapton & Joe Bonamassa 02. Son’s Gonna Rise - Citizen Cope with Robert Randolph 03. If the River Was Whiskey (Divin’ Duck Blues) - Keb’ Mo’ with Taj Mahal 04. Memories of Mother and Dad - Molly Tuttle & Sierra Hull 05. Intro - The Marcus King Band 06. It’s Too Late - The Marcus King Band 07. Honky Tonk Hell - The Marcus King Band 08. Landslide - The Marcus King Band with Little Bird 09. Valentina - Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins 10. How Could We Know - Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins with Judith Hill

Tracks LP Five: 01. Carried Away - H.E.R. 02. Best Part - H.E.R. 03. Hold On - H.E.R. with John Mayer & Kenny Wilson 04. Salt Creek - Molly Tuttle & Sierra Hull 05. The Healing - Gary Clark Jr. 06. Out of Love - Gary Clark Jr. 07. Don’t Worry Baby - Los Lobos

Tracks LP Six: 01. The Storm - Eric Gales 02. My Favorite MIstake - Sheryl Crow with John Mayer 03. Jingo - Santana 04. A Love Supreme - Santana with John McLaughlin 05. It Makes No Difference - Eric Clapton 06. I Shot the Sheriff - Eric Clapton 07. Crossroads - Eric Clapton with Stevie Wonder———————————————————————

* Long Live Rock Archive