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Great Gulf Wind - Sonny Landreth, Toussaint, Allen
Sonny Landreth is a special guitarist. He has combined the idiosyncratic rhythms of his home state, Louisiana, with the intricate finger-picking of Chet Atkins, and the blues-rock slide of Duane Allman, into a distinctive .  
more »style entirely his own. When he was backing up John Hiatt, John Mayall, or Beausoleil, his astonishing guitar licks were all Landreth needed, but now, as a bandleader himself, he has to rely on his songwriting and singing skills, which are considerably less impressive. On his 1996 solo album, South of I-10, Landreth does his best job yet in shoring up his weaknesses and showcasing his strengths. Landreth s best-known composition, a 1985 tribute to New Orleans called Congo Square, has been recorded by Mayall, the Neville Brothers, Tom Principato, and Landreth himself, who re-records it for this album wi ....

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