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by: Sonny Landreth

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Average Rating: Rating: - Riding High on The Road From Hell at Home to Gone Pecan, Sonny's hellacious slide guitar work and blues inspired songs on The Road We're On take me to roots-rock heaven. If you're already a huge fan like I am, you'll love this record - great songs, great vocals and a guitar solo in every track! Like Levee Town, this recording has quickly become one of my favorites. Rating: - Cause for Celebration! Any new release from Sonny Landreth is a cause for celebration. Certainly one of the greatest slide guitarists ever and a brilliant writer, Landreth has again come up with a sinewy workout of his remarkable technique in the service of compelling and plaintive cajun blues. Every song is a gem. His voice is as languid as a summer day on the Mississippi delta, and in his inflections you hear the crossroads of Acadian culture and black rural blues. His is a voice of wonder. The musicianship throughout is terrific. Steve Conn's organ fills out a palette coloured by remarkable rhythm work from Dave Ranson, Mike Burch and Brian Brignac. The recording is warm and intimate and the mix is superb. Everything technically as well as artistically about this disc is first rate. Enjoy this disc! Along with Chris Smither and James McMurtry, Sonny Landreth is the real deal. And he has come up with a real treasure! Rating: - Going Pecan I was lucky to see Sonny at a small club in Philly last year. This was just before he headed into the studio to record The Road We're On, so the band played the entire CD as a final warm up before recording. And boy, was it more than warm! EVERY song was high-energy/high volume hard-edged, driving blues/zydeco, with Sonny's guitar much more in front than has been the case on his studio CD's. Each song included an extended solo rather than just ornamental work, so I was really looking forward to the release of the CD. And it has not disappointed. The Road We're On does a great job of capturing that energy and drive of the live show. Blast the title track and you'll experience being blown off the dance floor to Dave Ranson's power bass and Brian Burch's explosive drumming. And, of course, Sonny wailing with much more (controlled) volume than you've heard before. You won't find any tunes on the CD with the type of lushness of some of the songs on Levee Town or South of I-10. The production shoots for immediacy, in your face, almost power trio stuff. Much of it sounds like single take, or with minimum overdubs. I felt like I was back at that club in Philly. Or, from one of the zydeco stompers, Gone Pecan: "So don't come knockin' we ain't home me and mine are gone pecan"

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