It just seems to come out of nowhere and connect your heart and soul to your fingertips.” Blacktop Run comes on the heels of Landreth’s Grammy-nominated double album Recorded Live In Lafayette, which features an acoustic disc and an electric disc. “Honestly, I think the purest form of music is improvised,” the bandleader says. “Groovy Goddess” takes the listener into harder-edged jazz-rock territory, showcasing the slide guitar prowess that has twice landed Landreth on the cover of Guitar Player magazine. “Mule” follows, with its tailgate rhythm bouncing through a his-and-her tale of unrequited love. The sultry, slow zydeco pulse of “Lover Dance With Me” features Landreth trading in his signature glass slide for his guitar’s tremolo arm and a rotating Leslie speaker cabinet. “It couldn’t have gone better.”Ī quartet of instrumentals highlights the expressive power of bassist David Ranson, drummer Brian Brignac and multi-talented keyboardist/songwriter Steve Conn. “We came up with new and better ideas, and that’s what you want,” he added. Most of the tracks were recorded live at famed Dockside Studios on the Vermilion River south of Lafayette, La. “His brilliance and creative energy recharged us,” Landreth said of reuniting with Field. Producer RS Field – who helmed Landreth’s trio of breakout albums – joined the six-stringer and co-producer Tony Daigle to finish the record. The project’s range is the fruit of a renewed collaboration. The south Louisiana artist’s groundbreaking work has long mixed familiarity with experimentation, and his latest 10-song collection stretches from hard-edged electric instrumentals to wistful acoustic ballads. As the singer feels the wind at his back, a rising bass line intersects Landreth’s vocalizing to stretch the fingerpicked tune into Far Eastern melodicism. Sonny Landreth takes off on a turbocharged Blacktop RunĪcclaimed guitarist’s new album mixes genres and stylesĪcross a landscape of lyricism and rootsy groovesĪ percussive burst of acoustic resonator guitar pushes the narrator on a journey “between the life I left and the edge of next” in the title cut of guitarist, songwriter and bandleader Sonny Landreth’s 14th album.
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