Audio CD review:
Sonny Landreth - The Road We're On

Sonny Landreth - The Road We're On

Band: Sonny Landreth Title: The Road We're On Rating: Release Date: 28 January, 2003 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: True Blue 2: Hell at Home 3: All About You 4: A World Away 5: Gone Pecan 6: Natural World 7: The Promise Land 8: Falling for You 9: Ol' Lady Luck 10: Gemini Blues 11: The Road We're On 12: Juke Box Mama

Editoral Review But these 12 numbers run deeper than his previous recordings. Sonny Landreth's 10-year career as a leader has always seemed tenuous, because he's a one-dimensional singer and only an adequate songwriter. Like much of his catalog, they straddle the worlds of blues, Cajun and zydeco, and New Orleans party music, but the blues dominates. And that gives the conflagrant Mississippi-born and Louisiana-raised slide guitarist plenty of fuel. So he burns liberally at every turn, from the acoustic resonator guitar that opens and closes the disc to the percolating funk of "Hell at Home" and the Allmans-like, riff-driven intensity of "Fallin' for You. " "A World Away" is this album's tour de force, with Landreth summoning soul from the seldom-used soft side of his voice and slow, moaning guitar lines, whose steel-on-steel cries echo the resigned heartbreak of the lyrics. The CD's sterling production puts Landreth's guitar front and center, which reaffirms the former John Hiatt and Clifton Chenier sideman's instrumental mastery. --Ted Drozdowski .. You can see a complete list of all Sonny Landreth discography, or go back to the Sonny Landreth tabs