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The Road We're on | 
| Artist: Sonny Landreth
Label: Sugar Hill
Category: Music
List Price: £13.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 102847
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 5 x 0.2
MPN: 3964
UPC: 015891396422
EAN: 0015891396422
ASIN: B00007JGWD
Release Date: February 10, 2003
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| Tracks:
| • | True Blue | | • | Hell At Home | | • | All About You | | • | World Away | | • | Gone Pecan | | • | Natural World | | • | Promise Land | | • | Falling For You | | • | Ol' Lady Luck | | • | Gemini Blues | | • | Road We're On | | • | Juke Box Mama |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sonny Landreth's 10-year career as a leader has always seemed tenuous, because he's a one-dimensional singer and only an adequate songwriter. But the 12 numbers on The Road We're On run deeper than his previous recordings. Like much of his catalogue, they straddle the worlds of blues, cajun, zydeco and New Orleans party music, but the blues dominates. And that gives the conflagrant Mississippi-born and Louisiana-raised slide guitarist plenty of fuel. So he burns liberally at every turn, from the acoustic resonator guitar that opens and closes the disc to the percolating funk of "Hell at Home" and the Allmans-like, riff-driven intensity of "Fallin' for You". "A World Away" is this album's tour de force, with Landreth summoning soul from the seldom-used soft side of his voice and slow, moaning guitar lines, whose steel-on-steel cries echo the resigned heartbreak of the lyrics. The album's sterling production puts Landreth's guitar front and centre, which reaffirms the instrumental mastery of this former John Hiatt and Clifton Chenier sideman. --Ted Drozdowski
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| Customer Reviews:
Disappointed!!!!! October 24, 2003
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Having got this album having heard the first 2 albums by Sonny Landreth, I can't help but feel slightly disappointed. That's not to say that it's a bad album because it isn't but having heard what Sonny is capable of, as both a songwriter and a musician, I do feel a little cheated by this.First up is the production which is way too glossy for this type of music. Then there are the songs themselves, with none of them standing out particularly strongly ... there is a noticeable lack of memorable hooks on this outing. Then there is the playing itself, there just isn't the variety within it that I have come to know and expect from Sonny. That's not to say all I tune into is to hear stupendous playing nor do I expect long-winded solos but it just seems as if he is running out of ideas and very quickly at that on some of the tracks. South of I-10 gets played about 10 times a week and even now, after all this time of listening to it, I still feel excited by what I hear but that is not the case with The Road We're On. On several of the tracks, I am looking around the room or searching for the Skip Track button which I have NEVER done before listening to Sonny. Being a HUGE fan of John Hiatt and hearing Sonny on the last 2 albums, I really thought that what he is doing there would extend to his solo stuff but it seems as if he is on burn-out because there is very little here for me to get my teeth into. What it has done is made me think "oh with a bit of practise I could play a few of those solos" and I have never been able to say that EVER when listening to Sonny Landreth. Now, whether that is because the production sheen is so slick that it's losing his guitar in the mix or because he has pared down his playing to such an extent, I don't know. What I do know is I have the latest Sonny Landreth album and it's hardly getting played. That is not good at all.
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