sonny landreth blacktop run

​Sonny Landreth from the album Blacktop Run available on Provogue Records)
Mastering a guitar tends to leave a creative hole for the player, with many six-string slingers taking their leads into Jazzy atmospherics with flash fire riffs to expand the learning. For slide guitar master, Sonny Landreth, as the understanding of his instruments advanced, the playing went further into his passions; Blues and Roots music. Never a stranger to experimentation, Sonny Landreth takes his slide work for a road trip through Roots styles with Blacktop Run, his latest release. Venturing far into the raw side of electric slide guitar for the “Beyond Borders” instrumental, Sonny Landreth spits out notes, his riffs speaking with a slight Latin accent as he plucks notes under the warnings of “Don’t Make a Move” as Blacktop Run travels to “Wilds of Wonder” on a chopped-up boogie and dips its toes in the Cajun roux of “Mule”.
 
Sonny Landreth welcomed the energy boast that previous producer, RS Field, brought in to Dockside Studios south of Lafayette, Louisiana to consult with Sonny and co-producer Tony Daigleto. Backed by a powerhouse of musicians, David Ranson (bass), Brian Brignac (drums), and Steve Conn (keyboards), who authored a trio of tracks for the album. Blacktop Run colors its songs with a wide variety of sounds, moving from front porch Folk in the title track to the fusion Rock of “Groovy Goddess” and the funky Zydeco strut in “Lover Dance with Me”. Sounds shape only to shift as Sonny Landreth circles the cosmos within the space of a song for “Many Worlds” drifting lazily into the multi-layered story and melodies of album closer “Something Grand”.
 
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