Recorded Live In Lafayette

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Recorded Live in Lafayette is a double live album from Louisiana slide guitar master Sonny Landreth, released June 30, 2017 via Provogue/Mascot Label Group — his first live record in twelve years and only his second in-concert release overall. Captured over three consecutive nights at the Acadiana Center for the Arts in Lafayette, Louisiana, the album was co-produced by Landreth and Grammy-winning engineer Tony Daigle, who tracked the sessions on a 48-channel API console. Landreth's long-standing rhythm section of bassist Dave Ranson and drummer Brian Brignac anchored the performances, with two close collaborators rounding out the ensemble: keyboardist and accordionist Steve Conn and guitarist Sam Broussard, whose presence adds considerable color and depth throughout. The 16-track, 93-minute set grew out of Landreth's inability to choose between two long-held ambitions — creating the full-length acoustic album his fans had been requesting for years, and capturing the electric energy of his working band — so he simply did both, splitting the double album cleanly down the middle.Disc one is an all-acoustic set built around Landreth's resonator guitar and a stripped-down configuration of ukulele bass, cajón, and accordion, drawing on material stretching back to "Blues Attack," the title cut of his 1981 debut. The warm, roomy acoustic textures set it apart from anything in his previous catalogue, giving familiar songs a fresh, unhurried intimacy. Disc two shifts gears entirely into full-band electric territory, with Landreth's signature bottleneck slide work unleashed across a set that moves through Louisiana blues, zydeco-inflected grooves, and roadhouse rock, closing with the sprawling "The One and Only Truth." As Premier Guitar noted, the Acadiana Center for the Arts is close to the bars and clubs where Landreth first developed his style, and the energy of the crowd — playing on home turf — is palpable throughout. Show more