Levee Town by Sonny Landreth

Levee Town was Sonny Landreth's seventh studio album, released on Sugar Hill in October 2000, and it's a Louisiana gumbo served by the man they call the King of Slydeco. Landreth wears his slide on his pinkie, which leaves his other fingers free to fret notes and chords behind it, and that trick is the engine of the whole record.

It builds on the ground he covered with Outward Bound and South of I-10, but spreads wider: the introspective "Love and Glory", a lean trio workout in "Z. Rider", the zydeco stomp of "The U.S.S. Zydecoldsmobile", Memphis horns on "Angeline", swamp pop in "Soul Salvation", New Orleans flavors all through "Deep South". The title track is the showcase, a rolling bayou groove with his guitar out front. Landreth later reissued it in an expanded edition on his own LandFall Records in 2009.

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