{"id":3681,"date":"2012-05-31T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=3681"},"modified":"2012-05-31T19:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-06-01T00:08:58","slug":"sonny-landreth-on-the-slide-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/sonny-landreth-on-the-slide-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonny Landreth On The Slide Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3682\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/sonny-landreth-on-the-slide-guitar\/landreth\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3682\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3682\" title=\"Landreth\" src=\"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Landreth-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3682\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sonny Landreth is one of the best slide guitarists in the muslc industry. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Few slide guitarists are as well known as Sonny Landreth.\u00a0 Landreth has had an awesome solo career in music, producing albums for over three decades and has an impressive list of guest appearances including Jimmy Buffett, John Hiatt, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler.\u00a0 I threw together three videos that offer some cool live performances with Sonny Landreth.\u00a0 Two of them feature his own trio and on the third video, Landreth joins up with Mark Knopfler.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the videos as much as I did!<\/p>\n<p>The first video features Sonny Landreth and his trio performing his song, &#8220;Congo Square.&#8221;\u00a0 This video was the best live video and audio quality, even though it&#8217;s shot from somebody in the crowd.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eckRRH6qfqk&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eckRRH6qfqk&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/eckRRH6qfqk&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the second video, Sonny Landreth is joined again by his trio but this time they perform one of his instrumental tracks.\u00a0 Check it out at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pf2k7WpkIxQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Pf2k7WpkIxQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/Pf2k7WpkIxQ&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the last video, as promised, Sonny Landreth joins up with Mark Knopfler to play his song, &#8220;Gravy Train.&#8221;\u00a0 It looks to me like the video comes from the Jools Holland show, since Holland is sitting in on the organ.\u00a0 Enjoy the video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cOJHSrxHNhw&amp;feature=related\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cOJHSrxHNhw&amp;feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[youtube_sc url=&#8221;http:\/\/youtu.be\/cOJHSrxHNhw&#8221; width=&#8221;420&#8243; rel=&#8221;0&#8243;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sonny Landreth is one of the best slide guitarists on the music scene today and is a great player to model your own slide playing after.\u00a0 There are plenty more videos from Landreth to check out so I encourage you to do so.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed the videos!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few slide guitarists are as well known as Sonny Landreth.\u00a0 Landreth has had an awesome solo career in music, producing albums for over three decades and has an impressive list of guest appearances including Jimmy Buffett, John Hiatt, Eric Johnson, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler.\u00a0 I threw together three videos that offer some cool live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}