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Sonny Landreth
Road We're On
Release Date: 2003 01 zz
Label: Sugar Hill Records
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Following a few years after Levee Town, an album tightly focused on a specific place and time, Landreth dedicates The Road We're On to the more intangible magic of the blues. The music this time scans a vast panorama, from the Texas shuffle of "All About You" and zydeco pulse of "Gone Pecan" through the tub-thump beat of some Bayou dive on "Juke Box Mamma." Aside from a couple of cuts on which he plays standard guitar, Landreth fills this album with wizardly slide work: A shimmering lick at the end of "A World Away" provides the most gorgeous sonic moment, though his extended jam on the environmental call to arms "Natural World" sustains a high level of intensity through several choruses. On most of these tracks Landreth performs in a raw trio setting, almost all the time recording live; on "Hell at Home" he even keeps the scratch vocal, rather than overdub a fresh version, because the four-beat groove, reminiscent of "Walking Blues" on Paul Butterfield's East-West, is so in-the-pocket. With more focus on the playing and less on studio polish than he's shown in years, Landreth affirms his mastery in all the feels of The Road We're On and, more importantly, reminds listeners that bottomless power still lives in the body of the blues. Robert L. Doerschuk, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1True BlueLandreth4:26
2Hell at HomeLandreth3:41
3All About YouLandreth3:45
4World AwayLandreth4:44
5Gone PecanLandreth3:18
6Natural WorldLandreth4:59
7Promise LandLandreth3:22
8Fallin' for YouLandreth4:31
9Ol' Lady LuckLandreth4:33
10Gemini BluesLandreth3:31
11Road We're OnLandreth3:03
12Juke Box MamaLandreth4:05







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