Like Sonny

I was in NYC last week, and caught up with my buddy John for the first time in awhile. I love John but let's say his taste in music falls somewhere in the Foreigner/REO Speedwagon space, so I was pretty shocked when he told me he was going on an NYC blues cruise to see Sonny Landreth.


Now I just love Sonny's playing on John Hiatt's best records, and have South of I-10, which is a damn good record in its own right. But I was surprised when I popped on Archive.org to see if I could find something to prep John for the experience, and lo & behold, there are shows of Sonny playing with Little Feat! Had no idea and I'm something of a Feat fan.

While the sound quality is a bit lacking, there's some hot jamming on this version of Let It Roll from the Keswick show in 2006 (mp3) And here's a goodie from Sonny's official site: key to the highway

you can find a bunch more mp3's in the "lagniappe" section of the site

Let's Go Get Stoned

I can't help it, I still love Southside -- not just because he's still the best white R&B singer on the Jersey Shore, not for the decades of salty wisecracks, but mostly because he has often been his own worst enemy, and I can so relate to that.

I pulled the mp3s from johnny's site awhile ago, and just dumped them on this new, $15 cardreader/mp3player toy I picked up, and had a good laugh at this version of Ray Charles' classic, with Gary US Bonds joining in the fun.

The mp3 is supposed to be here (it was just a day or two ago) but if that link isn't working, try here instead.

And of course you know that Johnny is doing the annual Martell's thing this week.