Levee Town
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Levee Town is the 5th studio album by Sonny Landreth
. Released on Sugar Hill Records Oct. 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.
(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.
, 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.
All of the songs on the album were written solely by Landreth except "Angeline" which is a collaboration with songwriter Will Jennings
. Jennings also co wrote "For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings)" which was recorded for Levee Town (featuring Jennifer Warnes
) but not released until the 2009 Expanded Edition. "The Going On", a song collaboration with songwriter Wendy Waldman, was written and recorded for Levee Town but not included on the record. It was later re-recorded and released on Landreth’s 2008 album From the Reach
.
Demos for the songs took shape at Landreth’s home studio throughout 1996-1997. By 1998 music producer and TV/film composer Mike Post
had become a friend of Landreth’s and expressed an interest in the project. Post offered his WestWind Media studio in Burbank CA as a place to record basic tracks. WestWind Media was primarily a post-production facility but one wing of the building contained a large well designed tracking room and a control room with a vintage Neve console making the studio a perfect place to capture live tracks.
tracking the songs live. Ranson a well know and well regarded bass player from Louisiana had performed and recorded with Landreth for three decades and understood the nuances of the music better than anyone. Organ, an accomplished rock drummer with enough finesse to capture the Louisiana groove influences of the music, had played with Landreth since 1995. Mike Post provided production and arrangement support and played keyboards. Post associate Cary Butler was the primary engineer. Some overdubbing was also completed in a secondary studio at Mike Post Productions.
Basic tracks recorded with Post that appear on the final record are – "Levee Town", "This River", "Love and Glory", "Spider-Gris", "Godchild", "Turning With the Century", "Angeline", and "Deep South". On "Godchild" and "Deep South" Landreth had become very fond of the guitar tracks he had recorded on demos in his home studio, so the ADAT demos were transferred to 24 Track 2 inch tape, the bass and drum tracks were then replaced at WestWind by Ranson and Organ - keeping the demo guitar tracks intact.
In 1999 and 2000 tracking and overdubbing moved to Dockside Studio in Maurice just outside of Lafayette, Louisiana
. Dockside was owned by Landreth’s friends Steve and Cezanne Nails and was another studio with a great Neve recording console and an ample tracking room as well as the advantage of being close to home for Landreth. David Ranson (bass) and Michael Organ (drummer)
were once again the rhythm section and long time Landreth friends Tony Daigle (engineer) and R.S. Field (producer) worked on the tracks. Songs recorded at Dockside included "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile", "Broken Hearted Road", "Z. Rider", and "Soul Salvation". Several other tracks were also recorded, some for a proposed instrumental album that was never completed. Three of those tracks, "Pedal To Metal", "Old Flame", and "Fare You Well", appear on the 2009 Expanded Edition release.
(guitar on "Soul Salvation"); Bonnie Raitt
(vocals on "Soul Salvation"); John Hiatt
(vocals on "Levee Town"); Marce LaCouture
(vocals); Michael Doucet
(fiddle); Errol Verret (accordion); Danny Kimbal (rubboard); Zydeco Joe Mouton (accordion). Jennifer Warnes
and Herb Pedersen
, both accomplished singers in their own right, sing background vocals on most of the album. The Legendary White Trash Horns appear on both "Angeline" and "Deep South". The horn parts were recorded as overdubs at Dockside with arrangement help from Post. Bonnie Raitt
’s vocal contribution to "Soul Salvation" was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios
in Dublin Ireland while she was on a trip abroad.
In 2002 Jimmy Buffett
recorded the Levee Town track "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile" on his Far Side of the World (album)
and featured Landreth on the record. Over the next few years Landreth continued to build momentum with touring, a 2003 release of his own, guest appearances on albums with friends such as Little Feat
, and Mark Knopfler
, and a much touted 2007 appearance at Eric Clapton
's Crossroads Guitar Festival
in Chicago. Landreth's 2008 album From the Reach
was the first release on his own label, LandFall Records, and featured contributions from Eric Clapton
, Mark Knopfler
, Dr. John
and Vince Gill
among others. By 2009 Landreth was once again on firm footing and the idea for a re-release of Levee Town became a possibility. He had fortunately insisted on owning the rights to the master recordings in his original contract with Sugar Hill so in April 2009 Levee Town Expanded Edition with five additional tracks was released on LandFall Records. Reception was once again very positive, with most critics praising the work even more than in 2000.
A 2005 commentary in The Nation
magazine by journalist Alexander Cockburn
on the difficulties and profiteering surrounding reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
quotes the Sonny Landreth
song "Levee Town" with the line "Don't be surprised at who shows up, down in the Levee Town."
both long time friends of Landreth’s. The cover and Megan Barra were nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
.
Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
. Released on Sugar Hill Records Oct. 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.
Overview
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-10South of I-10
South of I-10 is the 4th studio album from Sonny Landreth. The album features his first collaboration with Mark Knopfler.The album featured the first music video for Sonny Landreth for the song Native Stepson.-Track listing:...
(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.
Writing
Landreth toured extensively for two years after the 1995 release of South of I-10South of I-10
South of I-10 is the 4th studio album from Sonny Landreth. The album features his first collaboration with Mark Knopfler.The album featured the first music video for Sonny Landreth for the song Native Stepson.-Track listing:...
, 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
Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson, OC; is a Canadian singer-songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known for his membership as the guitarist and primary songwriter within The Band. He was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time...
’s writing for The Band
The Band
The Band was an acclaimed and influential roots rock group. The original group consisted of Rick Danko , Garth Hudson , Richard Manuel , and Robbie Robertson , and Levon Helm...
; Joseph Campbell
Joseph Campbell
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work is vast, covering many aspects of the human experience...
’s works on myth; Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet; Richard Ford
Richard Ford
Richard Ford is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day and The Lay of the Land, and the short story collection Rock Springs, which contains several widely anthologized stories.-Early...
’s novel The Sportswriter
The Sportswriter
The Sportswriter is a 1986 novel by Richard Ford. It is about a failed novelist turned sportswriter who undergoes an existential crisis following the death of his son. In 1995, it was followed by a sequel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Independence Day...
; Longfellow
Longfellow
Longfellow may refer to:* Longfellow, Minneapolis, United States** Longfellow , Minneapolis, United States* Longfellow, Oakland, California, United States* Longfellow , one of America's first great thoroughbred racehorses...
’s Evangeline
Evangeline
Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie, is an epic poem published in 1847 by the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem follows an Acadian girl named Evangeline and her search for her lost love Gabriel, set during the time of the Expulsion of the Acadians.The idea for the poem came from...
; Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
’s Protagoras
Protagoras
Protagoras was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher and is numbered as one of the sophists by Plato. In his dialogue Protagoras, Plato credits him with having invented the role of the professional sophist or teacher of virtue...
; 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
Bayou
A bayou is an American term for a body of water typically found in flat, low-lying areas, and can refer either to an extremely slow-moving stream or river , or to a marshy lake or wetland. The name "bayou" can also refer to creeks that see level changes due to tides and hold brackish water which...
region where Landreth grew up and still lives.
All of the songs on the album were written solely by Landreth except "Angeline" which is a collaboration with songwriter Will Jennings
Will Jennings
Wilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...
. Jennings also co wrote "For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings)" which was recorded for Levee Town (featuring Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...
) but not released until the 2009 Expanded Edition. "The Going On", a song collaboration with songwriter Wendy Waldman, was written and recorded for Levee Town but not included on the record. It was later re-recorded and released on Landreth’s 2008 album From the Reach
From the Reach
From the Reach is the 9th studio album from Sonny Landreth. Released on May 20, 2008, it is his first album to be released under his own label Landfall Records. The album features appearances by Jimmy Buffett, Eric Clapton, Robben Ford, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson, Dr...
.
Demos for the songs took shape at Landreth’s home studio throughout 1996-1997. By 1998 music producer and TV/film composer Mike Post
Mike Post
Mike Post is an American multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning composer best known for scoring some of the most popular TV theme songs in the United States, for primetime series such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, LA Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., Hill Street Blues, among numerous...
had become a friend of Landreth’s and expressed an interest in the project. Post offered his WestWind Media studio in Burbank CA as a place to record basic tracks. WestWind Media was primarily a post-production facility but one wing of the building contained a large well designed tracking room and a control room with a vintage Neve console making the studio a perfect place to capture live tracks.
Recording
Tracking and overdubs took place at WestWind throughout 1998 with Landreth (guitars), long time associate David Ranson (bass), and Michael Organ (drummer)Michael Organ (drummer)
Michael Organ is an American rock 'n' roll drummer best known for performing and recording with Sonny Landreth and Henry Lee Summer.-Career:...
tracking the songs live. Ranson a well know and well regarded bass player from Louisiana had performed and recorded with Landreth for three decades and understood the nuances of the music better than anyone. Organ, an accomplished rock drummer with enough finesse to capture the Louisiana groove influences of the music, had played with Landreth since 1995. Mike Post provided production and arrangement support and played keyboards. Post associate Cary Butler was the primary engineer. Some overdubbing was also completed in a secondary studio at Mike Post Productions.
Basic tracks recorded with Post that appear on the final record are – "Levee Town", "This River", "Love and Glory", "Spider-Gris", "Godchild", "Turning With the Century", "Angeline", and "Deep South". On "Godchild" and "Deep South" Landreth had become very fond of the guitar tracks he had recorded on demos in his home studio, so the ADAT demos were transferred to 24 Track 2 inch tape, the bass and drum tracks were then replaced at WestWind by Ranson and Organ - keeping the demo guitar tracks intact.
In 1999 and 2000 tracking and overdubbing moved to Dockside Studio in Maurice just outside of Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette, Louisiana
Lafayette is a city in and the parish seat of Lafayette Parish, Louisiana, United States, on the Vermilion River. The population was 120,623 at the 2010 census...
. Dockside was owned by Landreth’s friends Steve and Cezanne Nails and was another studio with a great Neve recording console and an ample tracking room as well as the advantage of being close to home for Landreth. David Ranson (bass) and Michael Organ (drummer)
Michael Organ (drummer)
Michael Organ is an American rock 'n' roll drummer best known for performing and recording with Sonny Landreth and Henry Lee Summer.-Career:...
were once again the rhythm section and long time Landreth friends Tony Daigle (engineer) and R.S. Field (producer) worked on the tracks. Songs recorded at Dockside included "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile", "Broken Hearted Road", "Z. Rider", and "Soul Salvation". Several other tracks were also recorded, some for a proposed instrumental album that was never completed. Three of those tracks, "Pedal To Metal", "Old Flame", and "Fare You Well", appear on the 2009 Expanded Edition release.
Guests
Many of Landreth’s long time musical friends appear as guests on Levee Town. Steve Conn (Keyboards on most tracks); Stephen BrutonStephen Bruton
-Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware as Turner Stephen Bruton, he moved with his family to Texas at the age of two. He fell into the Fort Worth music scene after graduating from Texas Christian University when he joined Kris Kristofferson's band as the latter's career was about to take off;...
(guitar on "Soul Salvation"); Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
(vocals on "Soul Salvation"); John Hiatt
John Hiatt
John Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
(vocals on "Levee Town"); Marce LaCouture
Marce LaCouture
Marce Lacouture is an American folk music and cajun recording artist and song writer.- Biography :Lacouture grew up in Texas and Louisiana.She began singing professionally in Austin folk and rock bands and in 1984 formed a duo with Butch Hancock, with whom she recorded two albums...
(vocals); Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet
Michael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA award, which recognizes artistic excellence, cultural...
(fiddle); Errol Verret (accordion); Danny Kimbal (rubboard); Zydeco Joe Mouton (accordion). Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Warnes
Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...
and Herb Pedersen
Herb Pedersen
Herb Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past forty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different...
, both accomplished singers in their own right, sing background vocals on most of the album. The Legendary White Trash Horns appear on both "Angeline" and "Deep South". The horn parts were recorded as overdubs at Dockside with arrangement help from Post. Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Raitt
Bonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
’s vocal contribution to "Soul Salvation" was recorded at Windmill Lane Studios
Windmill Lane Studios
Windmill Lane Studios, also known as the "U2 studio", is a three-storey music recording studio located in Dublin, Ireland. It is located on Windmill Lane, a small street just south of City Quay and the River Liffey and a little north of Pearse Station. It was opened in 1978 by Brian Masterson who...
in Dublin Ireland while she was on a trip abroad.
Mixing
Recording and overdubs for the album were completed by summer of 2000 and mixing for Levee Town was handled primarily at Dockside Studio by a combination of Landreth, Daigle, and Field.Release, reception, and re-release
After over two years of production, and the complications of Landreth changing labels and management, Levee Town was released in October 2000 on Sugar Hill Records. Critical reception was very favorable, but Sugar Hill may not have been able to supply appropriate publicity and promotional efforts for the record. Sales for Levee Town were minimal and it was several years before Landreth rekindled the momentum in his solo career.In 2002 Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett
James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
recorded the Levee Town track "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile" on his Far Side of the World (album)
Far Side of the World (album)
Far Side of the World is the 25th studio album by American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and was released in March of 2002. It is his first album released on his own record label, Mailboat Records.-Track listing:...
and featured Landreth on the record. Over the next few years Landreth continued to build momentum with touring, a 2003 release of his own, guest appearances on albums with friends such as Little Feat
Little Feat
Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles....
, and Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
, and a much touted 2007 appearance at Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
's Crossroads Guitar Festival
Crossroads Guitar Festival
The Crossroads Guitar Festival is a music festival and benefit concert first held in 2004 and again in 2007 and 2010. The festivals benefit the Crossroads Centre founded by Eric Clapton, a drug treatment center located in Antigua. The concerts are also intended to be a showcase for a variety of...
in Chicago. Landreth's 2008 album From the Reach
From the Reach
From the Reach is the 9th studio album from Sonny Landreth. Released on May 20, 2008, it is his first album to be released under his own label Landfall Records. The album features appearances by Jimmy Buffett, Eric Clapton, Robben Ford, Vince Gill, Eric Johnson, Dr...
was the first release on his own label, LandFall Records, and featured contributions from Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
, Mark Knopfler
Mark Knopfler
Mark Freuder Knopfler, OBE is a Scottish-born British guitarist, singer, songwriter, record producer and film score composer. He is best known as the lead guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter for the British rock band Dire Straits, which he co-founded in 1977...
, Dr. John
Dr. John
Malcolm John "Mac" Rebennack, Jr. , better known by the stage name Dr. John , is an American singer-songwriter, pianist and guitarist, whose music combines blues, pop, jazz as well as Zydeco, boogie woogie and rock and roll.Active as a session musician since the late 1950s, he came to wider...
and Vince Gill
Vince Gill
Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...
among others. By 2009 Landreth was once again on firm footing and the idea for a re-release of Levee Town became a possibility. He had fortunately insisted on owning the rights to the master recordings in his original contract with Sugar Hill so in April 2009 Levee Town Expanded Edition with five additional tracks was released on LandFall Records. Reception was once again very positive, with most critics praising the work even more than in 2000.
A 2005 commentary in The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
magazine by journalist Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Claud Cockburn is an American political journalist. Cockburn was brought up in Ireland but has lived and worked in the United States since 1972. Together with Jeffrey St. Clair, he edits the political newsletter CounterPunch...
on the difficulties and profiteering surrounding reconstruction of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina of the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season was a powerful Atlantic hurricane. It is the costliest natural disaster, as well as one of the five deadliest hurricanes, in the history of the United States. Among recorded Atlantic hurricanes, it was the sixth strongest overall...
quotes the Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
song "Levee Town" with the line "Don't be surprised at who shows up, down in the Levee Town."
Album cover Grammy nomination
The cover for Levee Town features the design work of Megan Barra and the photography of Jack SpencerJack Spencer
Jack Spencer is a self-taught American photographer.Spencer was born in Kosciusko, Mississippi and his first love was music, performing in rock bands making a recording. He is probably best known for his series, Native Soil that featured deep sepia tones combined with deep-South imagery...
both long time friends of Landreth’s. The cover and Megan Barra were nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
Grammy Award for Best Recording Package
The Grammy Award for Best Recording Package is one of a series of Grammy Awards presented for the visual look of an album. It is presented to the art director of the winning album, not to the performer, except if the performer is also the art director....
.
Track listing
- "Levee Town" - Sonny LandrethSonny LandrethSonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
6:28 - "This River" - Landreth 4:20
- "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile" - Landreth 5:20
- "Love and Glory" - Landreth 4:16
- "Broken Hearted Road" - Landreth 4:40
- "Spider-Gris" - Landreth 3:41
- "Godchild" - Landreth 5:09
- "Turning with the Century" – Landreth 4:33
- "Z. Rider" - Landreth 4:05
- "Soul Salvation" - Landreth 2:56
- "Angeline" - Landreth, Will JenningsWill JenningsWilbur H. "Will" Jennings is an American songwriter who is popularly known for writing the lyrics for "My Heart Will Go On", the theme for the film Titanic .-Life and education:...
3:59 - "Deep South" - Landreth 6:26
2009 Expanded Edition bonus tracks
- "Pedal To Metal" - Landreth 4:09
- "For Who We Are (The Night Bird Sings)" - Landreth, Jennings 3:22
- "Old Flame" - Landreth 4:04
- "Road A Plenty" - Landreth 2:37
- "Fare You Well" - Landreth 3:32
Personnel
- Sonny LandrethSonny LandrethSonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
: Guitar, Vocals, Producer, Horn, Arrangements, Mixing - David Ranson: Bass
- Michael OrganMichael Organ (drummer)Michael Organ is an American rock 'n' roll drummer best known for performing and recording with Sonny Landreth and Henry Lee Summer.-Career:...
: Drums, Percussion - Steve Conn: Keyboards
- Sam Broussard: Acoustic Guitar
- Stephen BrutonStephen Bruton-Background:Born in Wilmington, Delaware as Turner Stephen Bruton, he moved with his family to Texas at the age of two. He fell into the Fort Worth music scene after graduating from Texas Christian University when he joined Kris Kristofferson's band as the latter's career was about to take off;...
: Leslie Guitar - Michael DoucetMichael DoucetMichael Doucet is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana.In 2005 Doucet was one of 12 recipients of the National Heritage Fellowship by the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA award, which recognizes artistic excellence, cultural...
: Fiddle - Errol Verret: Accordion
- Joseph "Zydeco Joe" Mouton: Accordion, Rubboard
- Danny Kimball: Rubboard
- The Legendary White Trash Horns -Steve Howard: Trumpet, Horn Arrangements. Jon Smith: Tenor Saxophone, Horn Arrangements
- Bonnie RaittBonnie RaittBonnie Lynn Raitt is an American blues singer-songwriter and a renowned slide guitar player. During the 1970s, Raitt released a series of acclaimed roots-influenced albums which incorporated elements of blues, rock, folk and country, but she is perhaps best known for her more commercially...
: Background Vocals - John HiattJohn HiattJohn Hiatt is an American rock guitarist, pianist, singer, and songwriter. He has played a variety of musical styles on his albums, including New Wave, blues and country. Hiatt has been nominated for several Grammy Awards - although he has never won- and has been awarded a variety of other...
: Background Vocals - Jennifer WarnesJennifer WarnesJennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...
: Background Vocals - Herb PedersenHerb PedersenHerb Pedersen is an American musician, guitarist, banjo player, and singer-songwriter who has played a variety of musical styles over the past forty years including country, bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, folk, folk rock, country rock, and has worked with numerous musicians in many different...
: Background Vocals - Marce LaCoutureMarce LaCoutureMarce Lacouture is an American folk music and cajun recording artist and song writer.- Biography :Lacouture grew up in Texas and Louisiana.She began singing professionally in Austin folk and rock bands and in 1984 formed a duo with Butch Hancock, with whom she recorded two albums...
: Background Vocals - Mike PostMike PostMike Post is an American multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning composer best known for scoring some of the most popular TV theme songs in the United States, for primetime series such as Law & Order, NYPD Blue, The Rockford Files, LA Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., Hill Street Blues, among numerous...
: Keyboards, Producer, Horn Arrangements - R.S. Field: Producer, Chant, Mixing
- Engineering, Mastering, Technical: Tony Daigle, Cary Butler, Paul Wight, Ed Rogers, Ciaran Cahill, Mark Ellison, Justin Niebank, Jim DeMain, Billy Gosser, Joe Glaser, Kye Kennedy.