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 ...

The Eureka Springs Blues Party is a blues rock and funk party happening at stages all over the city's downtown area with headliners Sonny Landreth, Cris Jacobs, Ian Moore, John Nemeth, Patrick Sweany ...

I knew Sonny Landreth was a blues great going into the 2010 Baton Rouge Blues Festival. He’s in the pantheon of contemporary blues guitar gods. I knew he was the caliber of player that Eric Johnson ...

Sonny Landreth, the singer, songwriter and slide guitar master from Lafayette, will return to the Baton Rouge area for a Friday performance at the new Freyhan Cultural Center in St. Francisville.

Perfection is not a word ordinarily applied to blues slide and lap steel guitar work. In fact, its raw approach and imperfection usually define the style. The very idea of the two types of guitar ...

The group Mannish Boys leads all nominees for the upcoming Blues Music Awards in Memphis with six nominations, including band, traditional album and album of the year in addition to individual ...

He was young when he heard that sound, a scream suspended in flight above the guitar neck, fusing notes and sliding off the strings into a mysterious rhapsody. Bottleneck slide, the liner notes ...

Sonny Landreth has been playing gigs around Louisiana since he was 16. He started touring professionally at 20. At 71, he is looking back on more than 50 years of making music. "I used to think about ...

Don’t be fooled by those who might hint there’s a new Sonny Landreth album out. Although “Mississippi Blues” isn’t described as a re-release, it is, says the man himself who doesn’t have anything to ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Slide guitarist Sonny Landreth Sonny Landreth is going it alone – at least for now. | Landreth usually performs with his band or, ...

One of my favorite Sonny Landreth moments was hearing him perform the instrumental “Z Attack” at a Wednesday at the Square concert, as the raw electricity of his sound and the percussive nature of his ...