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Sonny Landreth
Solo artist Canton United States
Sonny Landreth is an artist from Canton. Sonny Landreth has 7 chart appearances on 7 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2006–2024. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Blacktop Run”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #5. The station that charted Sonny Landreth most often is WXPN (Philadelphia, PA), with 3 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Sonny Landreth, born in Canton, Mississippi, in 1951, found his home in southwest Louisiana, settling in Lafayette, and his calling on the slide guitar. He plays the blues with a bottleneck that sings, moans and slithers, and slide guitar is what he is known for above all. These days he lives in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana.
Down in Louisiana, from 1985, laid out the map, and "Congo Square" became one of the tracks that kept his name alive on the countdowns. Levee Town followed in 2000, still steeped in Louisiana and still built around that liquid, singing slide tone. In 2005 the Americana Awards named him Instrumentalist of the Year, a fitting nod for a guitarist whose hands do most of the talking.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Sonny Landreth on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blacktop Run | 1 | #5 | – | 2020 | |
| 2 | Louisiana 1927 | 1 | #263 | – | – | |
| 3 | Way Past Long | 1 | #42 | – | 2008 | |
| 4 | Congo Square | 2 | #448 | – | – | |
| 5 | Levee Town | 1 | #793 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1049 | Congo Square | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years |
| 2023 | 263 | Louisiana 1927 | The Colorado Sound Top 800 Songs About Places |
| 2020 | 5 | Blacktop Run | WEXT Top 97 of 2020 |
| 2012 | 448 | Congo Square | WXPN 885 Greatest Rock Songs (2012) |
| 2010 | 793 | Levee Town | WXPN 885 Ultimate Road Trip Songs (2010) |
| 2008 | 42 | Way Past Long | WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2008 |
| 2006 | 792 | Artist ranking | WXPN 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) |
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