CLASSIC RECORDS LP RTH 1032-1: Sonny Landreth - Outward Bound - OOP 1995 USA SS

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Good luck trying to find one of these! The "pop" titles issued by Classic Records disappeared and went out of print rather quickly. Not many made it to market and are likely even rarer than their famous classical or jazz titles. This is one such title, in the country music genre, and best of all, it's still factory sealed!

Sonny Landreth (born February 1, 1951) 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. When he is not touring and performing, he resides in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.

Early musical ambitions fueled by contact with diverse musicians in the South; first instrument, trumpet at age 10, gave way to guitar; first white musician to play with Clifton Chenier’s Red Hot Louisiana Band, 1979; formed Bayou Rhythm with David Ransom on bass and Gregg Morrow on drums, late 1970s; recorded two albums before an association with John Hiatt in late 1980s; recorded with Mark Knopfler, Kenny Loggins, and Beausoleil; solo albums include Outward Bound, 1992, and South of 1-10, 1995.

Landreth is best known for his slide playing, having developed a technique where he also frets notes and plays chords and chord fragments behind the slide while he plays. Landreth plays with the slide on his little finger, so that his other fingers have more room to fret behind the slide. He's also known for his right-hand technique, which involves tapping, slapping, and picking strings, using all of the fingers on his right hand. He wears a special thumb pick / flat pick hybrid on his thumb so he can bear down on a pick while simultaneously using his finger style technique for slide.

Sonny Landreth is known for his use of Fender Stratocaster guitars and Dumble Amplifiers. He is also known to use Demeter and Fender amplifiers on occasion. Landreth uses Jim Dunlop 215 heavy glass slides and Dunlop Herco flat thumb picks. His guitars are fitted with DiMarzio and Lindy Fralin pickups, a special Suhr back plate system, and D'Addario medium nickel wound strings gauges 0.13 - 0.56.

"Southwest Louisiana-based guitarist, songwriter, and singer Sonny Landreth is a musician's musician. The blues slide guitar playing found on his two Zoo Entertainment releases, Outward Bound (1992) and South of I-10 (1995) is distinctive and unlike anything else you've ever heard. His unorthodox guitar style comes from the manner in which he simultaneously plays slide and makes fingering movements on the fretboard. Landreth, who has an easygoing personality, can play it all, like any good session musician. His distinctive guitar playing can be heard on recordings by John Hiatt, Leslie West and Mountain, and other rock & rollers. Landreth was born February 1, 1951, in Canton, Mississippi, and his family lived in Jackson, Mississippi, for a few years before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana. Landreth began playing guitar after a long tenure with the trumpet. His earliest inspiration came from Scotty Moore, the guitarist from Elvis Presley's band, but as time went on, he learned from the recordings of musicians and groups like Chet Atkins and the Ventures. As a teen, Landreth began playing with his friends in their parents' houses."

"They would ping-pong us from one house to another, and though we were all awful at first, as time went on we got pretty good. It's an evolutionary process, just like songwriting is," Landreth explained in an interview on his 44th birthday in 1995."... - allmusic.com

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Sonny Landreth brings together blues, jazz, Cajun, zydeco, and rock music, creating a style that his two solo albums have had an increasing appeal to a wide array of listeners. The Mississippi-born recording artist employs a slide technique praised by critics from Guitar Player magazine to the Vancouver Sun. Each of Landreth’s two solo albums is woven from the various musical styles he picked up in southern Louisiana, his home since the age of two. His ability to meld these loosely associated deep South genres has earned him a broad following, and, with twenty years as a professional musician, his résumé packs important contacts. He has worked with the likes of John Hiatt, Mark Knopfler, and the late king of zydeco, Clifton Chenier and his Red Hot Louisiana Band.

After spending time as a sought-after session player, Landreth quickly moved from the shadows to the spotlight. With South of 1-10, his 1995 Zoo/Praxis release, Landreth finally dispelled the sideman image, utilizing the talents of Knopfler and definitive New Orleans musician Allen Toussaint to do so. Critics applauded the album’s meticulously produced displays of guitar ability and the conviviality among its many elements. The release also found new fans with Adult Album Alternative radio, a format that offers an outlet for musicians whose material falls outside conventional formats. Landreth noted in a Zoo/Praxis publicity release: "I wanted the listeners to feel like they spent part of their summer with me in Louisiana and this album would reflect the stories they took back home with them."

A childhood spent in Lafayette, Louisiana, in the 1950s and 1960s brought Landreth in contact with the blues, jazz, Cajun, and zydeco artists whose styles influenced his music. "Growing up in southwest Louisiana with a really rich cultural heritage, I got a lot of influences," Landreth explained in the Chicago Tribune. "I really feel fortunate to have that as a backdrop. One’s roots really are inspiring and they remain, to this day." With New Orleans and its jazz just a short drive away, a grandfather living in the Mississippi Delta with its blues, and Cajun and zydeco flourishing around his hometown, the self-taught guitarist almost had no recourse other than to become a musician.

In elementary school, Landreth began playing the trumpet, though he soon found the guitar to be the most direct vehicle for his musical expression. "By the time I was 13, I knew I wanted to play guitar, and I knew I wanted to play in a band," he told the Houston Chronicle. Landreth’s first experience with a guitar was with a toy Elvis Presley model belonging to his brother. Unfortunately, the family dog chewed off its neck while the budding rock and roll stars were in school one day.

Quick to overcome that setback, Landreth acquired another guitar and learned to play it by listening to Chet Atkins, appropriating his finger-picking style. The Ventures and Scotty Moore, who backed Elvis, were other influences, though the biggest impact on Landreth’s early career would come from zydeco master Clifton Chenier. "I must have been no more that 16, 17 years old the first time I saw him play. Me and a friend wandered into the Blue Angel Club, and he was up there on the bandstand. The guy just blew me away. We were the only white people in the place, but Clifton, he came right over and took us under this wing," he recalled in an interview for the Sante Fe New Mexican.

Also important to Landreth’s style was the slide mastery of Robert Johnson. By combining Chet Atkins’s picking with Johnson’s technique of pressing the slide directly on the guitar’s fretboard, Landreth honed his own method of playing. Describing the evolution of his guitar style, he told the Los Angeles Times, "I had been learning the guitar as a solo instrument, where Chet would play the melody, rhythm and bass line at the same time. And then to hear Robert Johnson doing it with a bottleneck so many years before was a real influence." This fusion begat a musical career that has taken the guitarist around the globe.

Record label interest began as early as 1973 with Columbia Records. Landreth recorded a full-length album for the label that went unreleased. Columbia, at that time, was unsure of the record’s audience and how to  reach it. Combining session work with gigs as a backing musician, Landreth was eventually asked to perform with Chenier’s Red Hot Louisiana Band. Of the experience, Landreth told the Los Angeles Times, "I figure that to be the highlight of my career, and that was in 1979." By that time, he had also formed Bayou Rhythm with David Ransom on bass and Gregg Morrow on drums. With limited gig work, the trio released two albums in the early 1980s.

After a short break from music, Landreth reemerged in 1988 playing with noted folk-rock performer John Hiatt. When Hiatt needed a touring band to take on the road in support of his Bring the Family album, he turned to Landreth and the Bayou Rhythm band, renaming them the Goners. Successfully recreating the guitar tracks laid down on the album by Ry Cooder, Landreth and his energetic playing provided solid backing for Hiatt’s songwriting.

The combination worked so well that Hiatt recorded his following release, Slow Turning, with the Goners after label-recruited session musicians failed to meet his expectations. The album was a success for Landreth both critically and personally. "That was pretty much a once-in-a-lifetime thing. We all knew it was something special," he commented in the Seattle News Tribune. The exposure was just enough to create label interest in a solo project. The result was Outward Bound, released on Zoo/Praxis in 1992. The album received mostly positive critical attention, though a few reviewers felt that Landreth sometimes put his technical displays before his songwriting. Outward Bound’ made appearances on some critics’ Top Ten lists and fueled the development of Landreth’s solo career.

The move from backing musician to frontman is known to be difficult, with some artists unable to make the switch, but Landreth knew the ropes. "There’s obviously more responsibility, but I did a lot of that stuff before with John Hiatt, and I had my own band before that. All of that helped me scope out the fire without being in the middle of it," he told the Los Angeles Times. His Outward Bound has a blues feel, highlighted by sounds coaxed patiently from the best in electric and resonator guitars-names like Fender, Gibson, and National. Landreth’s seamless bottleneck slide provides an often vaporous undercurrent to the solo record.

The same formula of blues, zydeco, and roots-rock produced South of 1-10 in 1995, much to the delight of critics. Landreth went back home to Louisiana to make the record. In his native South, he apparently found  it easier to pull together his musical influences. The guitarist worked at a recording studio on an 11-acre estate along the forested Vermilion River. "I’d be recording at all hours of the night, so I’d have less distraction," he noted in the Los Angeles Times. "Then about three or four in the morning… these tugboats barging shale from the gulf would be going by 30 feet away, with these lights cutting through the fog. It was an ethereal experience." Landreth told Andy Ellis of Guitar Player that he hopes South of 1-10 will take him one step closer to reaching his life’s goal of "turning people on to Cajun music."

Landreth has recorded with Jimmy Buffett, and accompanied him on his 2006, 2007 and 2010 summer tours. Landreth performed at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004, 2007, 2010, and is scheduled to play at the 2013 festival in New York.

• CLASSIC RECORDS / Rock The House / Zoo Entertainment LP item.

• Record Made in the USA

• Pressing is in STEREO

• Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm

• Earliest (and best) version of this audiophile reissue by Classic Records - using 150-gram pure virgin vinyl, this title is long out of print.
  

• Record Made in: 1995 - original LP was issued in 1992 by BMG / Praxis.
  

• Record Catalog Number: RTH 1032-1

Featured on this item:

Sonny Landreth

Sonny Landreth, vocals & guitars (electric and acoustic bottleneck slide, lead, rhythm & dobro)

David Ranson, bass

Kenneth Blevins, drums & percussion

Guests:

John Hiatt

Steve Conn

Sue Medley

Marce Lacouture

LP Title:

Outward Bound

Track Listing -

1. Soldier of Fortune
2. Back to Bayou Teche
3. When You're Away
4. Sacred Ground
5. New Landlord
6. Speak of The Devi
7. Yokamoma
8. Planet Cannonball
9. Common-Law Love
10. Bad Weather
11. Outward Bound
12. Blues Attack * (bonus cut)

CONDITION Details:

LP JACKET:

• The LP jacket is in Mint, FACTORY SEALED condition!

• The jacket has NO seam splits - it is completely intact (see picture for more detail).

• The jacket has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind.
  

• The outer plastic cellophane (bag) wrap is NOT torn in any way. 

• There is NO hand writing on the front or back of the jacket.

• The cover has clean and sharp colors - see pictures with this listing for more detail. 

The LP (vinyl) itself:

• The LP is assumed to be in MINT condition as well as this item is FACTORY SEALED!!

• This is the mint copy you have always wanted in your collection - any super picky audiophile would be happy with this one!

A Short Note About LP GRADING -

• Mint = Only used for sealed items.
• Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
• Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
• Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
• Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.

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