16 Facts About Sonny Landreth

Clide Vernon "Sonny" Landreth was born on February 1,1951 and is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player.

Sonny Landreth was born in Canton, Mississippi, and settled in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Guitarist Eric Clapton has said that Sonny Landreth is one of the most advanced guitarists in the world and one of the most under-appreciated.

Sonny Landreth is best known for his slide guitar playing, having developed a technique where he frets notes and plays chords and chord fragments by fretting behind the slide while he plays.

Sonny Landreth plays with the slide on his little finger, so that his other fingers have more room to fret behind the slide.

Sonny Landreth is known for his right-hand technique, which involves tapping, slapping, and picking strings, using all of the fingers on his right hand.

Sonny Landreth is known for his use of Fender Stratocaster guitars and Dumble Amplifiers.

Sonny Landreth is known to use Demeter and Fender amplifiers on occasion.

Sonny Landreth uses Jim Dunlop 215 heavy glass slides and Dunlop Herco flat thumb picks.

Sonny Landreth's 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.

Sonny Landreth first played in Clifton Chenier's Red Hot Louisiana Band, as the only white member of the band.

The band recorded Way Down in Louisiana in 1985 Sonny Landreth frequently played in John Hiatt's band, and with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.

In 1998, Sonny Landreth was involved in the multi-artist project "Begegnungen " mounted by Germany's Rock-Superstar Peter Maffay.

Sonny Landreth has recorded with Jimmy Buffett, and accompanied him on his 2004,2006,2007, and 2010 summer tours.

Sonny Landreth performed at Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival in 2004,2007,2010,2013 and 2019.

In 2014, Sonny Landreth was a guest performer on Eli Cook's album, Primitive Son.