... the pre-eminent slide guitarist in Louisiana blues; a bespectacled and quasi-reclusive playerwho combines traditional slide technique with fingerpicking and fretboard hammering adaptions, three finger right hand chordal work, spider-bite sustain, and eerie harmonics to create something spectacular. Born in Canton, Mississippi, Landreth is a true swamp rat whose family settled in southwest Louisiana; he's lived in Lafayette all his adult life. (Rick Koster, Louiiana Music p. 151) Outstanding. File under: Slide guitar masters
In the music library: Blacktop Run Crazy Cajun Recordings
Down In Louisiana Grant Street Levee Town The Road We're On
Christmas Gumbo: Got To Get You Under My Tree (with. The Dixie Cups)
Doctors, Professors, Kings & Queens: The Big Ol' Box Of New Orleans: South Of I-10
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