Levee Town

Landreth tends to have fairly long breaks between albums and it took "Levee Town" five years to follow up the excellent "South Of I-10". Many Landreth fans seem to rate this album really high, but for me it was a bit of a letdown after his previous albums. It is not that the album is bad, but the songwriting here just does not seem to be on the same level as his previous two. The material is a bit more on the pop side although Landreth does include two killer instrumentals "Z. Rider" and "Spider-Gris" that both showcase Sonny's incredible guitar prowess. Fans of Jimmy Buffett will recognize "U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile" a song Buffett covers on his "Far Side Of The World" album. Although I think "Levee Town" is a slight step down there still some good songs to be found here. Along with the above mentioned ones the title tracks, "This River", "Deep South" and "Turning With The Century" are all decent as well. Overall this is an average Landreth album. Worth owning, but not as good as some of his other stuff.

If you want to enjoy music from possibly the best slide, electric guitar player that has ever lived, give this man a listen.

I purchased the original release of Levee Town when it came out in 2000 .This re-issue includes 5 songs that weren't released with the 2000 debut , all of them worth the purchase price alone ! Sonny has performed Pedal to the Metal live many times before and released it as a live version on Grant Street , but the studio version is absolutely mind blowing ! Old Flame features Sonny playing a very soulful slide , and he almost makes his guitar cry real tears .. There are some guitar licks on this album that are absolutely amazing and the sound quality appears even better than the orignal release . Thumbs straight up!!!!

Being an avid Dr John fan allowed me my first taste of this incredible musician,while relaxing one nite listening to Dr John's album Creole Moon (yeah I'm an old guy) on the tunes Georgianna,Monkey and Baboon and Take what I can get, I hear this blistering slide work. Well, I got to find out just who the hell is this cat. SONNY LANDRETH. As a guitar player myself I don't know how he got past me all these years. Those of you out there who have yet to have the pleasure, you got to check him out. Just one more pearl from the sacred hotbed of music which seems to flow from America's Music Mecca---New Orleans. My apology for the Norman Mailer like phrazing of this review.

Sonny Landreth kills, in a good way

Good electric blues.

Although this is a solid album, squarely in the Landreth tradition of swampy cajun/zydeco/slide blues, the 2-disc version is ridiculous: Together the two discs only total 73:57, and thus they could clearly have been combined onto one album, with bonus tracks!

Great cd, I was hoping to get it for my library.

Play it over and over

This cd is amazing I perfer the road we are on a little more but do not miss out on this one either pure genius

Sonny Landreth plays a mean slide guitar, and he has provided some excellent support to John Hiatt over the years (Hiatt sings background on one cut).

Originally released in 2000 by Sugar Hill, Landreth's album is augmented on this reissue with five tracks from the same era.

This CD is definately not my favorite from Sonny. A couple of decent tracks but overall not the best in my book.