On a bright and humid afternoon in early May, Louisiana musicians gathered on the barn-like Fais Do-Do stage at the New ...

Sonny Landreth is a guitarist's guitarist — a wizard of the slide guitar. His music encompasses Mississippi Delta blues, zydeco, and Southern rock. But he also creates sounds that are all his ...

Slide guitarist Sonny Landreth learned decades ago to never take a gig for granted. Landreth once suffered through an off night, only to spot Bob Dylan in the audience. Dylan was looking for a ...

Anyone who believes that the art of playing electric guitar has been stretched to its limits hasn’t heard the latest album from Sonny Landreth.The Breaux Bridge, La.-based singer-songwriter is ...

Sonny Landreth became a master of the slide guitar as a member of Clifton Chenier's band. He rolls out his signature swamp-rock and Cajun grooves in this edition of Mountain Stage.

Sonny Landreth's sound is a mix of Cajun, zydeco and blues. Landreth festivals Audio: ...

Sonny Landreth, never straying far from the blues. December 30, 2016 “Blues is really still at the heart of everything I’ve done, I think — the soul of it and that kind of expression ...

Sonny Landreth: Recorded Live in Lafayette. by C. Michael Bailey July 8, 2017. Slide guitarist Sonny Landreth releases his third live recording after 2005's Grant Street (Sugar Hill Records) and ...

It was a dirty job, but somebody had to do it. “I went to southern France,” explains guitarist Sonny Landreth, the man enlisted for this album session work. “It was in Carcassonne. It’s ...

Sonny Landreth’s 11th album, bearing the fittingly evocative title Elemental Journey, is something very different from the Louisiana slide wizard. Released on his own Landfall label on May 22 ...

Blues singer and musician Sonny Landreth normally tours with his band or as part of a duo, but he's doing a special solo show at the City Winery.

Eric Clapton called Sonny Landreth the most underestimated guitarist on the planet and probably the most advanced, lauded for his slide guitar and picking techniques alike. The King of Slydeco has ...