Levee Town
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| Studio album by Sonny Landreth | ||||
| Released | 2000 Expanded Edition 2009 |
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| Recorded | 1998-2000 Dockside Studio WestWind Media |
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| Genre | Blues Rock Cajun Zydeco | |||
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Sugar Hill Records 2000 LandFall Records 2009 |
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| Producer | Landreth, Post, Field | |||
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Levee Town is the seventh studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records October 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.
Levee Town expands on the themes and musical styles exhibited on Landreth’s first two major label releases Outward Bound (1992) and South of I-10 (1995). The record shows a maturity in writing and production as well as a continuing evolution in Landreth’s unique slide guitar playing. The production utilizes a mixture of arrangement styles that befits the range of musical material - introspective singer songwriter ("Love and Glory"); bare bones 3 piece instrumentals ("Z. Rider"); “double-clutch” Zydeco grooves ("The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile"); Memphis style horn arrangements ("Angeline"); swamp pop ("Soul Salvation"); a mash up of New Orleans musical textures ("Deep South"); and the exuberant bayou groove and guitar showcase of the title song ("Levee Town"). Front and center throughout is Landreth’s exceptional slide guitar.
Landreth toured extensively for two years after the 1995 release of South of I-10, but during that time he began to write the songs that would form the core of his next album. Levee Town contains story songs reflecting his life and friends around his Louisiana home. Inspiration cited by Landreth for the songs comes from a wide mix of influences; Robbie Robertson’s writing for The Band; Joseph Campbell’s works on myth; Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet; Richard Ford’s novel The Sportswriter; Longfellow’s Evangeline; Plato’s Protagoras; a 1982 Oldsmobile 98 beast of a car that was a gift to Landreth from his parents; and as always the legends, music, myth, and people of the Louisiana Gulf Coast Bayou region where Landreth grew up and still lives.
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