Sonny Landreth is a guitarist's guitarist — a wizard of the slide guitar. His music encompasses Mississippi Delta blues, zydeco, and Southern rock. But he also creates sounds that are all his own — ...

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.

Born in Mississippi, relocated to Lafayette, Louisiana, Sonny Landreth was immersed in the great Swamp-pop and Zydeco music of the area. He picked up a variety of musical styles playing with some of ...

Sonny Landreth knew he wanted to invite some of his friends to play on his latest album. Luckily for him, his friends are some of the best musicians in the world, including Eric Clapton, Mark Knopfler ...

January would usually be a break for Lafayette slide guitar master, singer and songwriter Sonny Landreth. Not this January. Landreth is touring the northeast and performing in Baton Rouge and New ...

Sonny Landreth and his slide guitar have flown a million miles to entertain audiences around the world — and he's got the card from his airline to prove it. So if you haven't yet seen Landreth in ...

With his long-running trio in tow, Louisiana slide-guitar great Sonny Landreth returned to Mountain Stage in March 2008, recording in Ashland, Ky. Landreth self-released his latest album, From the ...

Last Thursday, the Iron Horse Music Hall was alive with the sound of Cajun-influenced slide guitar as Sonny Landreth impressed his audience with an outstanding, guitar-dominated performance. Featuring ...

If you've never seen Sonny Landreth's hands glide over the fret of his slide guitar, you should. It's like watching someone touch the finest of silk. If you've never heard Sonny Landreth play the ...

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’s 11th album, bearing the fittingly evocative title Elemental Journey, is something very different from the Louisiana slide wizard. Released on his own Landfall label on May 22, 2012, ...