Sonny Landreth - Grant Street
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Artist: Sonny LandrethEdition: Music CD
Format: Live
CD Release Date: 2005-01-25
Music Label: Sugarhill
Soundtracks:
- Native Stepson
- Broken Hearted Road
- Gone Pecan
- Port of Calling
- Blues Attack
- Z. Rider
- U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile
- Wind in Denver
- All About You
- Pedal to Metal
- Congo Square
Music reviews of Grant Street
Music Review: Speed isn't everything
Rating: 2 Stars
It should be said that Sonny Landreth is blindingly fast on guitar. Yet, after trying to like this album for more than a week, I just do not. And the reason is that my ears detect no soul at all in his playing. I am reminded of several other virtuoso guitarists (Walter Trout and Johnny Winter most specifically) who make an awful lot of noise, but very little listenable music. I am also missing entirely the Blues aspect of this recording. It's rock-and-roll. A little more attention to melody and continuity, and less fret-finger acrobatics, would help a lot.
Description of Grant Street
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 guitarist's 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 McLeeseContemporary Blues CDs
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