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| Artist: Sonny Landreth
Label: Proper
Category: Music
List Price: £11.99
Buy New: £8.68
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 401
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 805520030373
EAN: 0805520030373
ASIN: B00189DQE4
Release Date: May 26, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| » | Blue Tarp Blues (with Mark Knopfler) | | » | When I Still Had You (with Eric Clapton) | | » | Way Past Long (with Robben Ford) | | » | The Milky Way Home (with Eric Johnson) | | » | Storm Of Worry (with Eric Clapton) | | » | Howlin' Moon (with Dr. John and Jimmy Buffett) | | » | The Goin' On (with Vince Gill) | | » | Let It Fly (with Nadirah Shakoor) | | » | Blue Angel (with Robben Ford and Vince Gill) | | » | Uberesso | | » | Universe (with Vince Gill) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Mediocre July 25, 2008
This album got good magazine reviews and although I wasn't overly impressed by "Grant Street" which I already own, I tried it.
Frankly the album is boring. Sometimes you have to listen to a CD a few times to "get it" and I tried with this one, honestly I did. No doubt staunch Landreth fans will give it a 5 star rating but I don't believe it deserves them.
Sonny slides in... July 14, 2008
Sonny Landreth is an amazing slide guitarist who has a completely distinctive style that couldn't be any one else. Unfortunately the downside of such distinctiveness is that it can also be a bit samey. I've found his last two CDs a bit samey and was hoping that this CD with its all-star guests could bring something new to his sound. However, I don't think that it does.
For me the overall feel of the CD is too much like all Sonny's other records, there are no new sounds or rhythms and many of the songs sound like tracks he's recorded previously. The guests actually make minimal contributions and the album would have sounded more or less the same if there had been no guests at all. In truth the mix on Sonny's records is too full for another guitarist, and his own guitar sound is so 'massive' that the guest guitarists are reduced to the odd few bars of solos and a bit of noodling around in the background before Sonny steams in again.
'When I Still Had You' with Clapton is probably my favourite track, with Clapton contributing a nice, short solo. Clapton's other track 'Storm Of Worry' is OK as is 'Way Past Long' with Robben Ford but I wasn't convinced by the Hurricane Katrina song 'Blue Tarp Blues' with Mark Knopfler. 'Howlin moon' with Dr. John helping out on keyboards is also a good track which sounds different in that it has a bit more space in the mix for the keyboards.
Sonny contributes some fantastic slide playing but I would say if you already have Outward Bound or Levee Town you don't really need this. Overall I also found the album a bit bland and almost 'pop'-sounding I'd like to hear him doing something with a bit more guts, with some good classic blues songs rather than relying too much on his own songs. Two and a half stars...
Two stars - just because the sun is shining at the time of writing. July 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sorry all you 5-star reviewers out there, but I tend to agree more with the one star guy.
Yes a guitar fest by some real talents, but I'm afraid to say that by track five I was losing the will to live through boredom.
Each of the artists has done infinitely better as individuals, so quite how they agreed that this was suitable to market is beyond me.
Perhaps better next time.
 Excellent ... just excellent July 3, 2008
With an album of this calibre, it is tempting to slip into muso mode with a lot of technical jargon and overlook the sheer understated, relaxed brilliance of the music and the musicians making it. Suffice it to say that if you had to count the most accomplished guitar players in the world on one hand, Sonny Landreth should always have a place in the top 5. Whatever your taste, if you like quality workmanship and skilful playing in music that is built to last, give this a try. If you have not listened to Sonny Landreth before, you could be in for a treat. This is music -making at its best. Excellent ... simply excellent.
 The Pits June 13, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I recently took delivery of this album and frankly I wish I hadn't. While the guitar work is good the whole album (for me) is lack lustre and very boring. It all sounds the same.
Never again Sonny.
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