Crazy Cajun Recordings [Import]

Sonny Landreth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 22, 1999)
• Original Release Date: June 22, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Edsel Records UK
• ASIN: B00000J7XI
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,145 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #64 in Music > Indie Music > Blues > Electric Blues Guitar

Track Listings

1. I Know You Rider

2. Prodigal Son

3. Country Blues

4. Don't Cry for Me

5. M'Sippi Blues

6. Lady Come Lately

7. She Left Me a Mule

8. Forever Lillie Mae

9. That's the Way It's Gonna Be

10. Sunrise

11. Good Enough for Me

12. Rise Shining

13. Baby Ain't That Love

14. Ain't Gonna Worry

15. Lazy Boy

16. The Only One

17. Think It over (Lazy Boy)

18. You're Why I'm So Lonely

19. Lookin' for a Good Time

20. Lazy Boy (Reprise)

Editorial Reviews

20 track compilation available for the first time on CD, features material recorded in the mid-70's by a 22-year old Landreth on guitar, mandolin, piano and occasional vocals. These early recordings comprise the long-lost album of a slide guitar king.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Buy This CD and You'll Be Glad, August 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Crazy Cajun Recordings (Audio CD)

If you like South of I-10 or Outward Bound, or have some of his other stuff, you'll want to know where it all came from, and this CD is a good indication. Some very, very good tracks and playing, all very interesting to hear for those starved for "new" Sonny Landreth material (anyone know where to get a copy of "Blues Attack" nowadays?). Buy it; it's worth the money.

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Note re =Outward Bound=, May 19, 2005

By 

Peter (ThrIllinois) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Crazy Cajun Recordings (Audio CD)

I don't have this album yet, but it'll be mine one day, I know. Just based on the 30-sec samples, I gave it 5 stars because these 32-y-o recordings are surely in the upper 20 percent of all recordings!

Not in the upper 20 percent of all Sonny recordings, but very interesting nevertheless. (I stress: These opinions are based only on the samples!) Most of the cuts are far more country, and the blues more rustic, than we think of Sonny today. However, they do give an indication of an unconventional artistic sensibility and sparkling manual ability that have grown into a deep musical vision and phenomenal technique.

I could go on with observations based on these samples and what I know of Sonny's subsequent history, but all I really wanted to say was this:

Anybody who knows Sonny's =Outward Bound= CD should listen to sample 14, "Ain't Gonna Worry."